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A History Of The Organizational Development Of The Continental Artillery During The American Revolution by Major William C. Pruett US Army
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Major William C. Pruett US Army [Army, Major William C. Pruett US]

The Sergeants and Lieutenants–Commanders of the Piece Sergeants and Lieutenants were the direct leaders of the artillery. They provided daily management and leadership. They directly commanded the artillery piece in ...
( Category: Civil War February 17,2023 )
History of the United States During Thomas Jefferson's Administrations (All 4 Volumes) by Henry Adams
epub |eng | 2018-01-01 | Author:Henry Adams [Adams, Henry]

Three days later Monroe demanded his passports. For once, Cevallos showed as much promptness as Monroe could have desired. Without expressing a regret, or showing so much as a complimentary ...
( Category: Antebellum February 17,2023 )
A Rebel Among Us by J.D.R. Hawkins
epub |eng | | Author:J.D.R. Hawkins

Two weeks of cool weather ensued. He read of more Confederate desertions and summated that, since Lincoln’s reelection, the South was losing its will to fight. He learned of a ...
( Category: Campaigns & Battlefields February 16,2023 )
A Beckoning Hellfire by J.D.R. Hawkins
epub |eng | | Author:J.D.R. Hawkins

Morning reveille came too soon. The boys dragged themselves over for roll, Jake still hobbling from the fall he’d taken. When they returned to their campsite with breakfast, he looked ...
( Category: Campaigns & Battlefields February 16,2023 )
America's Good Terrorist by Charles P Poland;
epub |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:Charles P Poland;

Governor Wise and the Defense of Virginia Like the citizens of the national capital, residents in the Old Dominion’s capital were also greatly alarmed when told about Harpers Ferry. The ...
( Category: Abolition February 16,2023 )
Now What?: The Voters Have Spoken Essays on Life After Trump by Mary C. Curtis
epub |eng | 2020-02-15 | Author:Mary C. Curtis

HOUSTON, TX ADDIE TSAI is a queer, nonbinary writer and artist of color. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College and her PhD in Dance from ...
( Category: 21st Century February 16,2023 )
Hanging the Peachtree Bandit by Tom Hughes
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Tom Hughes [Hughes, Tom]

Chapter 8 “Somebody Loves This Poor Devil” At the Tower, Frank was moved to “Cell No. 5, North Wing.” Nearby was “Old John” Williams, awaiting his move to the state ...
( Category: South February 16,2023 )
He Slew the Dreamer by William Bradford Huie
epub |eng | 2018-11-13 | Author:William Bradford Huie [Huie, William Bradford]

3–31–68 $10.50 4–7 10.50 Underneath these figures he wrote the words: “could do several different kinds of work.” The $10.50 is the room rent, and the dates are when it ...
( Category: Black & African Americans February 16,2023 )
THE HASKELL MEMOIRS. The Personal Narrative of a Confederate Officer by Col. John Cheves Haskell Gilbert E. Govan
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Col. John Cheves Haskell, Gilbert E. Govan [Col. John Cheves Haskell, Gilbert E. Govan]

Chapter 8 — Surrender TO meet Grant, General Lee wore a full new uniform with a very handsome sword, which he had not worn on duty, and was accompanied by ...
( Category: Confederacy February 16,2023 )
Haunted Canadian County by Tanya McCoy Whitney Wilson
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Tanya McCoy, Whitney Wilson [Tanya McCoy, Whitney Wilson]

Hotel El Reno, the first hotel in El Reno, Oklahoma. Courtesy of Tanya McCoy. With several reports of people hearing footsteps and even running being heard, we set up our ...
( Category: Southwest February 15,2023 )
Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point's First Black Graduate by Jane Eppinga
epub |eng | 1996-01-15 | Author:Jane Eppinga [Eppinga, Jane]

Chapter 6 Flipper Returns to the Frontier Twenty-seven year old ex-lieutenant Henry Flipper could not go home to Thomasville because neither the town nor his family wanted anything to do ...
( Category: Southwest February 15,2023 )
Even the Terrible Things Seem Beautiful to Me Now by Mary Schmich
epub |eng | 2019-02-15 | Author:Mary Schmich

SUNDAY, DEC. 2, 2001 George Girls Nobody was a George girl, at least no girl I knew. You were a Paul girl. Or a John girl. Or, if only because ...
( Category: Midwest February 15,2023 )
A Good Master Well Served by Lawrence William Towner
epub |eng | 2019-07-12 | Author:Lawrence William Towner [Towner, Lawrence William]

NOTES 1. Cotton Mather, Tremenda . . . (Boston, 1721), 27. 2. Samuel Eliot Morison, Builders of the Bay Colony (Boston, 1930), 166. “Surely they were much deceived, or else ill informed, ...
( Category: Colonial Period February 14,2023 )
The Gospel of Progressivism by R. Todd Laugen
epub |eng | 2010-09-24 | Author:R. Todd Laugen [Laugen, R. Todd]

COLORADO WORKERS AND POSTWAR ELECTORAL POLITICS The immediate postwar years saw workers nationwide experimenting with new electoral tactics. Colorado was no exception. Given union frustrations with the Industrial Commission in ...
( Category: West February 14,2023 )
Gilded Summers by Donna Russo Morin
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Donna Russo Morin [Morin, Donna Russo]

GINEVRA From the hidden corners of The Beeches, I watched her sail into the room. My eyes closed as I heard the gasp of wonder over her gown, my sigh ...
( Category: Gilded Age February 6,2023 )

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