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Lives of Signers of the Declaration of Independence by Benson John Lossing
epub |eng | | Author:Benson John Lossing

THOMAS HEYWARD, JR. .................. THOMAS HAYWARD WAS BORN IN St. Luke’s parish, South Carolina, in the year 1746. His father, Colonel Dame Hay’ ward was one of the wealthiest planters ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding January 12,2023 )
Jack Hinson's One-Man War by Tom McKenney
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Tom McKenney

Chapter 6 Twilight at Bubbling Springs: The Last Summer and Autumn “The dreamy, sun-washed days of that blessed summer and autumn would soon be followed by the darkest winter of ...
( Category: Confederacy January 12,2023 )
FBI Case Files Michigan by Greg Stejskal
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Greg Stejskal

Arrest photograph (mugshot) of James Frederick Hill. Author’s collection. I immediately began to investigate James Hill. I found that Hill owned a house in an affluent part of Ann Arbor. ...
( Category: Midwest January 12,2023 )
Murder & Mayhem in Chicago's South Side by Troy Taylor
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Troy Taylor

Detectives investigate one of the railroad dugouts where the Car Barn Bandits hid in the Indiana Dunes. Courtesy of the Chicago Daily News. As the police officers pulled back, the ...
( Category: Midwest January 12,2023 )
The Dreaded Thirteenth Tennessee Union Cavalry by Melanie Storie
epub |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Melanie Storie

Officers’ prison, Danville, Virginia. From War of the Rebellion, Edisto Album, PR002-347.2; #aa02064. Collection of the New-York Historical Society. The Danville prison complex consisted of six brick or wooden tobacco ...
( Category: Civil War January 12,2023 )
Confrontation at Gettysburg by John David Hoptak
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:John David Hoptak

H.A. Ogden’s dramatic rendering of General James Longstreet overseeing his divisions’ attacks on July 2 at Gettysburg. Library of Congress. One South Carolinian remembered that the Union shells “were cutting ...
( Category: Gettysburg January 12,2023 )
George Washington and the Irish by Niall O'Dowd
epub |eng | 2022-01-15 | Author:Niall O'Dowd

CHAPTER 13 The Irish Orphan Who Became a Founding Father and Informed Washington He Was Elected President If there is a more unlikely success story than that of Irish emigrant ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding January 12,2023 )
Crusader Nation by David Traxel
epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:David Traxel

CHAPTER ELEVEN Henry Ford and the Peace Ship I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for ...
( Category: Turn of the Century January 12,2023 )
The Life of Johnny Reb by Bell Irvin Wiley
epub |eng | 2008-01-15 | Author:Bell Irvin Wiley

Courtesy Confederate Museum, Richmond, Virginia THE MISSOURI ARMY ARGUS Camp newspaper issued for and by soldiers of General Sterling Price’s Command. Courtesy Military Records Division, Alabama Department of Archives and ...
( Category: Confederacy January 12,2023 )
Three Years with Grant by Sylvanus Cadwallader
epub |eng | 2013-08-21 | Author:Sylvanus Cadwallader [Cadwallader, Sylvanus]

1 On the night of May 3, Cadwallader informed Hudson: “The army moves in the morning. Gen. Meade’s H’d Qrs. break up at 5 o’clock. Gen. Grant’s during the day. ...
( Category: Campaigns & Battlefields January 11,2023 )
The Chicago Freedom Movement by Mary Lou Finley
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Mary Lou Finley

Impact on Politics This movement generated creative power to advance independent politics. It did not start the impulse for independent politics in Chicago, but the movement propelled it forward. Breadbasket ...
( Category: Black & African American January 10,2023 )
William McKinley versus William Jennings Bryan by John M. Pafford
epub |eng | 2020-08-19 | Author:John M. Pafford

* * * 1. O’Toole, The Spanish War: An American Epic—1898, pp. 28–29. 2. Blow, A Ship to Remember: The Maine and the ­Spanish-American War, pp. 114–115, 410–411. 3. O’Toole, ...
( Category: Turn of the Century January 9,2023 )
Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts by Robert H. Romer
pdf |en | | Author: Robert H. Romer

( Category: State & Local January 9,2023 )
History of the Donner Party by Charles McGlashan
epub |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Charles McGlashan

CHAPTER XII A Wife’s Devotion • Tamsen Donner’s Early Life • The Early Settlers of Sangamon County • An Incident in School • Teaching and Knitting • School Discipline • ...
( Category: West January 9,2023 )
African Americans of Monterey County by Jan Batiste Adkins
epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Jan Batiste Adkins

In this photograph, Deacon Walter Jones stands between his aunt and uncle, with whom he lived in San Francisco before moving to Monterey with his grandmother, Mother Dora Isom of ...
( Category: West January 9,2023 )

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