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From the Darkness Cometh the Light by Lucy A. Delaney
epub |eng | 2021-10-12 | Author:Lucy A. Delaney [Delaney, Lucy A.]

CHAPTER V. "There's a joy in every sorrow, There's a relief from every pain; Though to-day 'tis dark to-morrow HE will turn all bright again." Before the sheriff bade me ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding February 24,2023 )
From The Cannon's Mouth: The Civil War Letters Of General Alpheus S. Williams by General Alpheus S. Williams Milo M. Quaife
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:General Alpheus S. Williams, Milo M. Quaife [General Alpheus S. Williams, Milo M. Quaife]

FOREBODINGS OF DEFEAT Frederick, Md., June 29, 1863. My Dear Daughters: I have a moment in the office of Dr. Steiner of the Sanitary Commission to tell you where I ...
( Category: Confederacy February 24,2023 )
Francis Marion The Swamp Fox of Snows Island by Rebecca Dunahoe
epub |eng | 2018-01-03 | Author:Rebecca Dunahoe [Dunahoe, Rebecca]

War-Torn South This order of Lord Cornwallis proved to South Carolina like the opening of Pandora’s box. Instantly, there broke forth a torrent of cruelties and crimes never before heard ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding February 24,2023 )
Freedom Has a Face by Kirt von Daacke
epub |eng | 2012-10-30 | Author:Kirt von Daacke [Daacke, Kirt von]

5 Bawdy Houses and Women of Ill Fame Free Black Women, Prostitution, and Family On July 9, 1821, the free woman of color Fanny Barnett came to the Albemarle County ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding February 24,2023 )
The Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, 1865 - 1872 by Martin Abbott
epub |eng | 1967-01-15 | Author:Martin Abbott [Abbott, Martin]

Notes 1. Edgefield Advertiser, June 14, 1865. 2. See Francis B. Simkins and Robert H. Woody, South Carolina During Reconstruction (Chapel Hill, 1932), pp. 3-20, for a description of the ...
( Category: South February 24,2023 )
The Fourth Battle of Winchester by Richard McMurry
epub |eng | 2002-01-15 | Author:Richard McMurry [McMurry, Richard]

That Elusive Turning Point Many writers on the war, when not asserting, sometimes hysterically, that Gettysburg was the “decisive” battle of the conflict, occupy themselves proclaiming that engagement to have ...
( Category: Reconstruction February 24,2023 )
First Kansas Colored Volunteers: Contributions Of Black Union Soldiers In The Trans-Mississippi West by Major Michael E. Carter
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Major Michael E. Carter [Carter, Major Michael E.]

CHAPTER 6 —OPERATIONS INTO ARKANSAS With the Honey Springs depot completely destroyed, General Cooper and General Cabell moved further south into Indian Territory. While awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from ...
( Category: Confederacy February 24,2023 )
In Ancient Albemarle by Catherine Albertson
epub |eng | 2017-07-28 | Author:Catherine Albertson [Albertson, Catherine]

* * * CHAPTER XII Table of Contents GENERAL ISAAC GREGORY, A REVOLUTIONARY OFFICER OF PASQUOTANK-CAMDEN During the War of the Revolution, the Albemarle Region, though threatened with invasion time ...
( Category: South February 24,2023 )
Contested Spaces of Early America by Juliana Barr (editor) Edward Countryman (editor)
pdf |en | | Author: Juliana Barr (editor), Edward Countryman (editor)

( Category: Colonial Period February 24,2023 )
Factors Affecting Joint Cooperation During The Civil War by LCDR Timothy R. Hanley USN
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:LCDR Timothy R. Hanley USN [USN, LCDR Timothy R. Hanley]

Reprinted with permission from Combined Operations in the Civil War by Rowena Reed. Copyright c 1978, U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD. The precipitate retreat from the Stono was one of ...
( Category: Confederacy February 24,2023 )
Failure Of British Strategy During The Southern Campaign Of The American Revolutionary War by Major Jesse T. Pearson
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Major Jesse T. Pearson [Pearson, Major Jesse T.]

CHAPTER 5 — GREENE’S CAMPAIGN The fourth factor that contributed to the failure of British strategy in the south was patriot General Nathanael Greene’s campaign in 1780 and 1781. This ...
( Category: Civil War February 24,2023 )
Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South, 1861-1865 by George Edmonds
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:George Edmonds [Edmonds, George]

CHAPTER XXI. Save the Union, Free Slaves the Pretext, Not the Purpose, of the War on the South. Real Cause, Hatred of Democracy. Mr. A. K. Fisk, a distinguished Republican, ...
( Category: Abolition February 24,2023 )
The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths by Charles McLean Andrews Allen Johnson
epub |eng | 2015-11-20 | Author:Charles McLean Andrews, Allen Johnson [Charles McLean Andrews, Allen Johnson]

Footnote [2] The King's warrant was issued on February 28, the writ of Privy Seal on April 23, and the great seal was affixed on May 10, 1662. * * ...
( Category: New England February 24,2023 )
Uninhabited Ocean Islands by John Fisher
pdf |en | | Author: John Fisher

( Category: Revolution & Founding February 22,2023 )
Evil Necessity by Harold D. Tallant
epub |eng | 2021-10-21 | Author:Harold D. Tallant [Tallant, Harold D.]

8 The Relevance and Irrelevance of John G. Fee Fee’s re-examination of the tactics of reform coincided with a similar re-examination by American abolitionists in general, in response to the ...
( Category: Abolition February 22,2023 )

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