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The Civil War in North Carolina by John G. Barrett
epub |eng | 2017-11-01 | Author:John G. Barrett [Barrett, John G.]

* Fort Campbell was an “earthwork of beautiful proportions” about a mile west of Fort Caswell. J. R. Randall to “Kate,” June 3, 1864, J. R. Randall Papers, SHC. It ...
( Category: Campaigns & Battlefields April 19,2022 )
Where Beauty Survived by George Elliott Clarke
epub |eng | 2021-08-24 | Author:George Elliott Clarke [Clarke, George Elliott]

xiii. But Sibyl wasn’t the only subject of an abortive, pre-adolescent and early-teen amour. In grade seven or eight, ages twelve to thirteen, I fell in like—due to wonder tinged ...
( Category: Black & African American April 19,2022 )
The Petersburg Regiment in the Civil War by John Horn
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:John Horn [Horn, John]

CHAPTER 13 The Wilderness Lee’s army had exhausted the available rations near Orange Court House. He had to disperse his forces to subsist them. Anderson’s division withdrew to the southern ...
( Category: Appomattox April 19,2022 )
Colonial Arkansas, 1686-1804 by Morris S. Arnold
epub |eng | 1993-12-01 | Author:Morris S. Arnold [Arnold, Morris S.]

By a secret covenant of November 3, 1762, France ceded the western part of Louisiana to Spain, but plans for transferring possession of the colony were held in abeyance for ...
( Category: Colonial Period April 19,2022 )
An American Color by Wegmann Andrew N.;
epub |eng | 2021-04-15 | Author:Wegmann, Andrew N.;

NOTES INTRODUCTION 1. Jean Blandin to Henry Vasserot, Natchez, Miss., May 29, 1861, L’Institution Catholique Copy-Book, Archives of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, New Orleans, La. Also cited, in slightly ...
( Category: Black & African Americans April 19,2022 )
Oregon's Doctor to the World by Kimberly Jensen
epub |eng | 2012-12-01 | Author:Kimberly Jensen [Jensen, Kimberly]

Pregnant women were inducted into a “terrible motherhood,” Lovejoy recalled. “Three-quarters of the crowd were women and children, and never have I seen so many women carrying children,” she said. ...
( Category: Pacific Northwest April 18,2022 )
Saints of Sage Saddle by Austin E. Fife Alta Fife
epub |eng | 1956-01-15 | Author:Austin E. Fife, Alta Fife [Austin E. Fife, Alta Fife]

Young men were posted to watch for deps at the outskirts of town and village. Their saddle horses would be tied below the brow of some hill which gave them ...
( Category: Civil War April 17,2022 )
Natchez on the Mississippi by Harnett Thomas Kane
epub |eng | 2016-10-27 | Author:Harnett Thomas Kane [Kane, Harnett Thomas]

Work lasted so long that the town made bets it would never end. Five years went by, and final details were incomplete when the couple moved in. By this time ...
( Category: Civil War April 17,2022 )
The BEF Campaign on the Aisne 1914 by Jerry Murland
epub |eng | 2013-01-19 | Author:Jerry Murland [Murland, Jerry]

He was the younger son of Sir John Lentaigne, the well known surgeon of Merrion Square, Dublin. He was a modest, quiet lad who could have been severe with me ...
( Category: New England April 17,2022 )
Lost Treasures Old Mines by Ann Lacy
epub |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Ann Lacy [Lacy, Ann]

Source of Information: Charles D. Mayer, Carrizozo, New Mexico. The North and South Homestake Mines by Edith L. Crawford The North and South Homestake Mines are located on the east ...
( Category: State & Local April 17,2022 )
King Philip's War 1675–76 by Gabriele Esposito & Giuseppe Rava
epub |eng | 2020-06-02 | Author:Gabriele Esposito & Giuseppe Rava

A new defensive position, named Fort Leverett for the Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, was built to the southwest of Pocasset Swamp, to cover any movement by water through this ...
( Category: Colonial Period April 15,2022 )
The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris
epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Charles Morris [Morris, Charles]

CHAPTER VI. Facing Famine and Praying for Relief. FRIGHTFUL was the emergency of the vast host of fugitives who fled in terror from the blazing city of San Francisco to ...
( Category: State & Local April 15,2022 )
The Fabulous Flathead by J. F. McAlear Sharon Bergman
epub |eng | 2018-12-01 | Author:J. F. McAlear, Sharon Bergman [J. F. McAlear, Sharon Bergman]

CHAPTER TWELVE—More Power To You When the reservation was opened in 1910, there was a lot of horsepower but it was generated by four-legged creatures. Electricity on the farms was ...
( Category: Civil War April 15,2022 )
Cerrillos, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Jacqueline Lawson
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Jacqueline Lawson [Lawson, Jacqueline]

Simoni Store, original The one-story building on the other side of the Simoni Store was leased by the Tiffany owners in the 1970s for their Starlight Cabaret. A two-lot building ...
( Category: Southwest April 14,2022 )
The Nickel Plate Road by Taylor Hampton
epub |eng | 2020-06-25 | Author:Taylor Hampton [Hampton, Taylor]

William Henry Vanderbilt, who had acquired control of the Nickel Plate for the Lake Shore, was born in 1821, the eldest son of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. After completing his education ...
( Category: Civil War April 14,2022 )

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