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That Furious Struggle: Chancellorsville and the High Tide of the Confederacy, May 1-4, 1863 by Christopher Mackowski Kristopher White
epub |eng | 2014-07-30 | Author:Christopher Mackowski, Kristopher White

Because of their inglorious flight, the German immigrants of the XI Corps earned the ignoble nickname “The Flying Dutchmen.” (FSNMP) As you head back east on Route 3, you’ll follow ...
( Category: Confederacy December 21,2022 )
The WPA Guide to Indiana by Federal Writers’ Project
epub |eng | | Author:Federal Writers’ Project

Tour 2 (New Buffalo, Mich.)—Michigan City—Gary—Hammond—(Chicago, Ill.); US 12. Michigan Line to Illinois Line, 45.5 m. Concrete roadbed, two- to four-lane, throughout. Route paralleled by Michigan Central R.R. between Michigan ...
( Category: Midwest December 21,2022 )
Lynch Law in the South by Lynch Law in the South (1892)
pdf | | | Author:Lynch Law in the South (1892)

( Category: Black & African Americans December 21,2022 )
Two Letters of Frederick Douglass by Two Letters of Frederick Douglass (1951)
pdf | | | Author:Two Letters of Frederick Douglass (1951)

( Category: Abolition December 21,2022 )
Just One Riot by Ben Procter
epub |eng | 2020-09-23 | Author:Ben Procter

Senior Capt. Bob Crowder — Courtesy Texas Ranger Hall of Fame Museum Psychiatrist Charles Castner (left) and Ranger Crowder are interviewed just after the riot at Rusk State Hospital. — ...
( Category: State & Local December 20,2022 )
General Sherman's Son by Fr. Joseph T. Durkin
epub |eng | 2013-10-15 | Author:Fr. Joseph T. Durkin [Durkin, Fr. Joseph T.]

CHAPTER 10—The Chicago Music Hall Address PERHAPS HIS GREATEST address during this first period of his public achievement was that given in the vast Central Music Hall at Chicago on ...
( Category: Confederacy December 20,2022 )
Scouting for Grant and Meade by Peter G. Tsouras
epub |eng | 2014-03-05 | Author:Peter G. Tsouras

The chickens and ducks were all plucked and ready for cooking when they brought them in. Hastily selecting some of the fowls, honey and butter, we sent them to Gen. ...
( Category: Regimental Histories December 20,2022 )
George B. McClellan and Civil War History by Thomas J. Rowland
epub |eng | 1998-01-15 | Author:Thomas J. Rowland [Rowland, Thomas J.]

1. Portions of this chapter appeared earlier in somewhat altered form as Thomas J. Rowland, “‘Heaven Save a Country Governed by Such Counsels!’ The Safety of Washington and the Peninsula ...
( Category: Campaigns & Battlefields December 19,2022 )
German Entanglements in Transatlantic Slavery by Heike Raphael-Hernandez Pia Wiegmink
epub |eng | 2020-04-02 | Author:Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Pia Wiegmink [Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Pia Wiegmink]

Acknowledgements I want to thank Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Mita Banerjee, Matthias Oppermann, and the peer-reviewers for their valuable comments on previous versions of this essay. Disclosure statement No potential conflict of ...
( Category: Abolition December 19,2022 )
Ghosts of Plymouth, Massachusetts by Darcy H. Lee
epub |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:Darcy H. Lee [Lee, Darcy H.]

Ghostly figure in upper-right window of house on North Street. Patrice Hatcher Photography. Browne added in his blog: “Unable to sell or rent the Capt. Phillips House, Cotton decided to ...
( Category: New England December 19,2022 )
General James Shields, Soldier, Orator, Statesman by Henry Anson Castle
epub |eng | 2019-03-11 | Author:Henry Anson Castle [Castle, Henry Anson]

↑ Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, April 13, 1914.
( Category: State & Local December 19,2022 )
General Robert E. Lee - Brightest Star In The South by Lt Col. Kent B. Dalton
epub |eng | 2014-08-15 | Author:Lt Col. Kent B. Dalton [Dalton, Lt Col. Kent B.]

CONCLUSION General Robert E. Lee was a superb practitioner of operational art and leadership. Even though he fought many of the greatest battles of his distinguished career over 140 years ...
( Category: Confederacy December 19,2022 )
The Generals' Civil War by Stephen Cushman
epub |eng | 2021-09-15 | Author:Stephen Cushman [Cushman, Stephen]

I hope and trust that God will watch over, guide, and protect me. I accept most resignedly all He has brought upon me. Perhaps I have really brought it on ...
( Category: Appomattox December 19,2022 )
Gentle Tiger by Charles L. Dufour
epub |eng | 1999-04-01 | Author:Charles L. Dufour [Dufour, Charles L.]

CHAPTER XIII MAJOR WHEAT’S BATTALION We understand that our friend, Gen. C. R. Wheat, is about raising a company of Volunteers, to serve in the Army of Louisiana,” commented the ...
( Category: Confederacy December 19,2022 )
Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country by Dale L. Walker
epub |eng | 2002-06-29 | Author:Dale L. Walker [Walker, Dale L.]

2 Samuel Parker left Ithaca on March 14, 1835, and reached Saint Louis three weeks later via Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Wheeling, Cincinnati, and Louisville, staying with church families, distributing tracts, holding ...
( Category: Pacific Northwest December 19,2022 )

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