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Johnson's Island by Roger Pickenpaugh
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Roger Pickenpaugh [Pickenpaugh, Roger]

8 “Almost a Fixed Impossibility” Escapes and Attempts In July 1862 all Union prison camps began forwarding monthly returns to Colonel Hoffman. According to the reports sent from Johnson’s Island, ...
( Category: Confederacy February 26,2023 )
John Washington's Civil War by Crandall Shifflett
epub |eng | 2008-04-01 | Author:Crandall Shifflett [Shifflett, Crandall]

8 First Night of Freedom April 18th 1862, Was “Good-Friday,”* the Day was a mild pleasant one with the Sun shining brightly and every thing unusally quite [sic]. the Hotel ...
( Category: Fredericksburg February 26,2023 )
Ironclad Captain by Jay Slagle
epub |eng | 1996-01-15 | Author:Jay Slagle [Slagle, Jay]

Foote was then assisted to his cabin, weak and trembling from his emotional farewell. At 3 P.M. the former Confederate steamer DeSoto dropped down to the Benton to convey the ...
( Category: Naval Operations February 25,2023 )
The Irish at Gettysburg by Phillip Thomas Tucker PhD
epub |eng | 2018-03-26 | Author:Phillip Thomas Tucker PhD [Tucker, Phillip Thomas PhD]

LEE AGAIN TAKES THE OFFENSIVE ON THURSDAY, JULY 2 To exploit the gains made on July 1, Lee was determined to maintain the tactical offensive in order to deliver a ...
( Category: Fredericksburg February 25,2023 )
An Imperfect Occupation by John Boje
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:John Boje [Boje, John]

6 White Man's War THE TITLE OF THIS CHAPTER serves as a reminder of the long cherished but now totally discredited myth that the South African War was an “Anglo-Boer” ...
( Category: Women February 25,2023 )
From The Cannon's Mouth: The Civil War Letters Of General Alpheus S. Williams by General Alpheus S. Williams Milo M. Quaife
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:General Alpheus S. Williams, Milo M. Quaife [General Alpheus S. Williams, Milo M. Quaife]

FOREBODINGS OF DEFEAT Frederick, Md., June 29, 1863. My Dear Daughters: I have a moment in the office of Dr. Steiner of the Sanitary Commission to tell you where I ...
( Category: Confederacy February 24,2023 )
First Kansas Colored Volunteers: Contributions Of Black Union Soldiers In The Trans-Mississippi West by Major Michael E. Carter
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:Major Michael E. Carter [Carter, Major Michael E.]

CHAPTER 6 —OPERATIONS INTO ARKANSAS With the Honey Springs depot completely destroyed, General Cooper and General Cabell moved further south into Indian Territory. While awaiting the arrival of reinforcements from ...
( Category: Confederacy February 24,2023 )
Factors Affecting Joint Cooperation During The Civil War by LCDR Timothy R. Hanley USN
epub |eng | 2015-11-06 | Author:LCDR Timothy R. Hanley USN [USN, LCDR Timothy R. Hanley]

Reprinted with permission from Combined Operations in the Civil War by Rowena Reed. Copyright c 1978, U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD. The precipitate retreat from the Stono was one of ...
( Category: Confederacy February 24,2023 )
Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South, 1861-1865 by George Edmonds
epub |eng | 2015-02-15 | Author:George Edmonds [Edmonds, George]

CHAPTER XXI. Save the Union, Free Slaves the Pretext, Not the Purpose, of the War on the South. Real Cause, Hatred of Democracy. Mr. A. K. Fisk, a distinguished Republican, ...
( Category: Abolition February 24,2023 )
Evil Necessity by Harold D. Tallant
epub |eng | 2021-10-21 | Author:Harold D. Tallant [Tallant, Harold D.]

8 The Relevance and Irrelevance of John G. Fee Fee’s re-examination of the tactics of reform coincided with a similar re-examination by American abolitionists in general, in response to the ...
( Category: Abolition February 22,2023 )
The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 by Jesse Olsavsky
pdf |en | | Author: Jesse Olsavsky

( Category: Abolition February 21,2023 )
The secret service of the Confederate States in Europe; by Bulloch James Dunwody 1823-1901
pdf | | | Author:Bulloch, James Dunwody, 1823-1901

( Category: Naval Operations February 21,2023 )
Elite Confederate Women in the American Civil War by Kristen Brill
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Kristen Brill [Brill, Kristen]

Diary And what within is richly shrined? A sculpted woman’s form; Lovely, in perfect rest reclined, As one beyond the storm; Yet not in death, but slumber, lies, The solemn ...
( Category: Women February 20,2023 )
Emancipating New York by David N. Gellman
epub |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:David N. Gellman [Gellman, David N.]

III. By November 1795, the opponents of slavery in New York had decided to renew their commitment to seeking gradual abolition legislation. The previous January, the American Convention had called ...
( Category: Abolition February 20,2023 )
A Rebel Among Us by J.D.R. Hawkins
epub |eng | | Author:J.D.R. Hawkins

Two weeks of cool weather ensued. He read of more Confederate desertions and summated that, since Lincoln’s reelection, the South was losing its will to fight. He learned of a ...
( Category: Campaigns & Battlefields February 16,2023 )

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