epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Kidada E. Williams

Attacks, surveillance, and widespread white collusion and silence about strikes increasingly persuaded more families to leave their communities for good. Their former homes carried only the promise of further injury. ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:James Marten;Caroline E. Janney;

NOTES 1. Ulysses S. Grant, “Inaugural Address,” March 4, 1869, American Presidency Project, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/203651, accessed July 31, 2020. 2. The advertisements studied in this chapter are housed in archival collections ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-15 | Author:Frye Gaillard [Gaillard, Frye]

Franklin Gaillard, December 31, 1861 As 1861 drew to a close, Franklin Gaillard was still optimistic about the war, even as he was beginning to feel its rigors. Dear Maria ...

epub |eng | 2020-10-09 | Author:Sergeant Daniel Tyler

Lieutenant Willis, writing from memory of the incidents of the Battalion, says: “Active preparations now commenced to carry into effect the Colonel’s orders, and by 4 o’clock of the same ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-01 | Author:Michael F. Reilly, William J. Slocum [Michael F. Reilly, William J. Slocum]

FOURTEEN. Casablanca Bound Late in 1942 it was obvious to us at the White House that FDR did not have his mind on the work at hand. On November 7, ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Lesley J. Gordon

“A LESSON IN PATRIOTISM” If their unheroic performance at Antietam could be recast as heroic, so too could their dehumanizing captivity at Andersonville. Members intent on recounting their individual and ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-15 | Author:Jim Woodrick

Spare Cartridges, by Alfred R. Waud. Library of Congress. When the Confederates in front of us learned of it they came over to us, and we had quite a little ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-05 | Author:Lucile Foster Foster [Foster, Lucile Foster]

9 — A Whistle Blows in the County Seat SPOKANE FALLS had lusty rivals in its earlier years. The lustiest was Cheney, a score of miles away to the southwest. ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-08 | Author:Earl Harding [Harding, Earl]

Chapter 10 — Coverups and Contradictions To cover up tell-tale evidence and conceal the sources of opulence sprouting in the private lives of some of the Panama patriots as well ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Len Shoemaker [Shoemaker, Len]

XVI—Advancement THE GUNNISON FOREST RESERVE WAS TOPOGRAPHICALLY very different from the Battlement Mesa; at least, it seemed so to Ranger Bill Kreutzer as he proceeded on his inspection. He liked ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-01 | Author:Mark K. Christ, Patrick G. Williams [Mark K. Christ, Patrick G. Williams]

As Confederate Arkansas was constricted to the southwestern corner of the state after the fall of Little Rock, the civilian population there began to experience the war firsthand. The diary ...

epub |eng | 2010-09-12 | Author:Kirk C. Jenkins [Jenkins, Kirk C.]

EPILOGUE Starting Over “I Am A Soldier Now And Under Military laws. Therefore I Cannot Go home At My own option.” So Ben Foster had written from Camp Hamilton Pope ...

epub |eng | 2007-11-09 | Author:Mark Twain, David Rachels [Mark Twain, David Rachels]

Absalom C. Grimes (reprinted by permission of Yale University Press). Clemens, Bowen, and I lived in and near Hannibal, Missouri. We decided to go home and visit our families a ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:William T Sherman [Sherman, William T]

ATLANTA, GEORGIA, September 11, 1864. Major-General W. T. SHERMAN. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, September 11, 1864. SIR: We the undersigned, Mayor and two of the Council for the city of Atlanta, for ...