United States
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]
Chapter 5: The Morning of September 20 âTaken as a whole, the performance of the Confederate right wing this morning had been one of the most appalling exhibitions of command ...
( Category:
Civil War
June 9,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-06-04 | Author:Charles R. Knight [Knight, Charles R.]
June 1863 There was little time for General Leeâs new commanders to become acquainted with their corps, subordinates, and responsibilities before the Army of Northern Virginia embarked on another offensive ...
( Category:
Appomattox
June 6,2022 )
epub |eng | 2007-10-31 | Author:Ted Van Dyk [Dyk, Ted Van]
11 STRANGE PRESIDENTS, NIXON AND CARTER To those of us active in national politics during the 1960s and 1970s, it seemed incredible that Richard Nixon had rebounded from a presidential-election ...
( Category:
Pacific Northwest
June 4,2022 )
epub |eng | 2018-11-05 | Author:Gregory D. Sumner [Sumner, Gregory D.]
Sidnaw train depot, 2016. Photo by the author. Problems arose on the job sites, however. Working in three-man teams, the prisoners required a break-in period before they they could operate ...
( Category:
Midwest
June 3,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-24 | Author:Gary W. Gallagher, Caroline E. Janney [Gary W. Gallagher, Caroline E. Janney]
The End of the Civil War For all practical purposes, Barlowâs war was over. His devastating experiences in the Overland and Petersburg campaigns led to what contemporaries called an extreme ...
( Category:
Reconstruction
June 2,2022 )
epub |eng | 2021-12-14 | Author:Otis K. Rice [Rice, Otis K.]
1 [John Cross], Five Years in the Alleghanies (New York, 1863), pp. 57-58; Charles H. Ambler, Frances Haney Atwood, and William B. Mathews, eds., Debates and Proceedings of the First ...
( Category:
Colonial Period
June 2,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-11 | Author:Bo Petersen [Petersen, Bo]
Chapter 9 The Last Plantation WITH MORE MONEY to be had, the big tobacco growers by the 1970s had turned to harvesting machines. Bulk barnsâlong windowless aluminum curing barns that ...
( Category:
Gettysburg
May 24,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-15 | Author:Virginia Causey [Causey, Virginia]
In the wake of the success of bus boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama, and elsewhere, Columbus activists turned their attention to the cityâs bus system. The local ordinance said drivers could ...
( Category:
State & Local
May 24,2022 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-04 | Author:Jere R. Daniell [Daniell, Jere R.]
It is difficult to generalize about the process of town founding. Although the Governor and Council chartered most towns in accordance with royal instructions, in some instances private landowners did ...
( Category:
Colonial Period
May 24,2022 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-07 | Author:Erik O. Ronningen [Ronningen, Erik O.]
V COLLAPSE 9:59 A.M. Captain Anthony Whitakerâs chief approached him. They were at West and Vesey Streets. There were hundreds of FDNY firefighters, all in their bunker gear, awaiting instructions. ...
( Category:
21st Century
May 23,2022 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown
CHAPTER 8 The Gentleman Pirate and Blackbeard Blackbeard as portrayed in the 1726 edition of Johnsonâs A General History of the Pyrates. BETWEEN THE CRASH OF THE WHYDAH AT THE ...
( Category:
Colonial Period
May 23,2022 )
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