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Book Synopsis List of Private Claims Brought Before the Senate of the United States from the Commencement of the Forty-Seventh Congress to the Close of the Fifty-First Congress by :
Download or read book List of Private Claims Brought Before the Senate of the United States from the Commencement of the Forty-Seventh Congress to the Close of the Fifty-First Congress written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confederate General William "Extra Billy" Smith by : Scott L. Mingus
Download or read book Confederate General William "Extra Billy" Smith written by Scott L. Mingus and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning biography of one of the Confederacy’s most colorful and controversial generals. Winner of the 2013 Nathan Bedford Forrest History Book Award for Southern History Nominated for the 2014 Virginia Book Award for Nonfiction Despite a life full of drama, politics, and adventure, little has been written about William “Extra Billy” Smith—aside from a rather biased account by his brother-in-law back in the nineteenth century. As the oldest and one of the most controversial Confederate generals on the field at Gettysburg, Smith was also one of the most charismatic characters of the Civil War and the antebellum Old South. Known nationally as “Extra Billy” because of his prewar penchant for finding loopholes in government postal contracts to gain extra money for his stagecoach lines, Smith served as Virginia’s governor during both the war with Mexico and the Civil War; served five terms in the US Congress; and was one of Virginia’s leading spokesmen for slavery and states’ rights. Extra Billy’s extra-long speeches and wry sense of humor were legendary among his peers. A lawyer during the heady Gold Rush days, he made a fortune in California—and, as with his income earned from stagecoaches, quickly lost it. Despite his advanced age, Smith took to the field and fought well at First Manassas, was wounded at Seven Pines and again at Sharpsburg, and marched with Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania. There, on the first day at Gettysburg, Smith’s frantic messages about a possible Union flanking attack remain a matter of controversy to this day. Did his aging eyes see distant fence-lines that he interpreted as approaching enemy soldiers—mere phantoms of his imagination? Or did his prompt action stave off a looming Confederate disaster? This biography draws upon a wide array of newspapers, diaries, letters, and other firsthand accounts to paint a portrait of one of the South’s most interesting leaders, complete with original maps and photos.
Book Synopsis Public Documents of Massachusetts by : Massachusetts
Download or read book Public Documents of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Calendar of the General Otho Holland Williams Papers in the Maryland Historical Society by : Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Maryland
Download or read book Calendar of the General Otho Holland Williams Papers in the Maryland Historical Society written by Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Maryland and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sagebrush Soldier by : Sherry L. Smith
Download or read book Sagebrush Soldier written by Sherry L. Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sagebrush Soldier is an account of military life during the Indian Wars in the late nineteenth-century West. Private William Earl Smith describes daily camp life, battle scenes, and the behavior of famous men - Ranald Mackenzie and George Crook - in public and private poses. His diary covers the war from the enlisted men’s viewpoint, as he worries about what he will eat and how he will keep warm in freezing conditions, and how he will keep calm when bullied by the sergeant major, of whom he says he would give "five years of my life to [have] walked up to him and smacked him in the nose." To complete the picture of the Sioux War, and particularly the Powder River Expedition, Sherry Smith frames Private Smith’s narrative with contemporary accounts written by other participants in these events. She assembles a balanced, comprehensive history by also incorporating the testimony of officers, their Indian scouts and allies, and their enemy, the Northern Cheyennes. In camp on Christmas Eve, 1876, Smith bought a can of peaches, which cost him two dollars, to share with his bunkmate. Meanwhile, he sees another man give ten dollars for a bottle of whiskey. His own words best convey the feelings of a young man far from home at Christmas: "We had a regular Old Christmas Dinner, a little piece of fat bacon and hard tack and a half cup of coffee. You bet I thought of home now if ever I did. But fate was a gane me and I could not bee there. My Bunkey bought some candy and we ate it." Christmas candy and thoughts of home; some things never change, as readers will learn in this picture of military life unique in its eloquent honesty.
Book Synopsis Georgia Confederate Records K-Z by : Arthur Wyllie
Download or read book Georgia Confederate Records K-Z written by Arthur Wyllie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa by : Iowa. General Assembly
Download or read book Legislative Documents Submitted to the ... General Assembly of the State of Iowa written by Iowa. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American State Papers by : United States. Congress
Download or read book American State Papers written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class I. Foreign relations. 6 v. 1st Cong.-20th Cong., 1st sess., April 30, 1789-May 24, 1828.--class II. Indian affairs. 2 v. 1st Cong.-19th Cong., May 25, 1789-March 1, 1827.--class III. Finance. 5 v. 1st Cong.-20th Cong., 1st sess., April 11, 1789-May 16, 1828.--class IV. Commerce and navigation. 2 v. 1st Cong.-17th Cong., April 13, 1789-Feb. 25, 1823.--Class V. Military affairs. 7 v. 1st Cong.-25th Cong., 2d sess., Aug. 10, 1789-March 1, 1838.--class VI. Naval affairs. 4 v. 3d Cong.-24th Cong., 1st sess., Jan 20, 1794-June 15, 1836.--class VII. Post Office department. 1 v. 1st Cong., 2d sess.-22d Cong., Jan. 22, 1790-Feb. 21, 1883.--class VIII. Public lands. 8 v. 1st Cong.-24th Cong., July 1, 1790-Feb. 28, 1837.--class IX. Claims. 1 v. 1st Cong., 2d sess.-17th Cong., Feb. 5, 1790-March 3, 1823.--class X. Miscellaneous. 2 v. 1st Cong.-17th Cong., April 17, 1789-March 3, 1823
Download or read book Senate documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American state papers written by USA and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 by :
Download or read book Index, The Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Vital Records of Heath, Massachusetts by : Heath (Mass.)
Download or read book Vital Records of Heath, Massachusetts written by Heath (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Enslaved Archives by : Maria R. Montalvo
Download or read book Enslaved Archives written by Maria R. Montalvo and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2024-07-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between the production of enslaved property and the production of the past in the antebellum United States. It is extraordinarily difficult for historians to reconstruct the lives of individual enslaved people. Records—where they exist—are often fragmentary, biased, or untrue. In Enslaved Archives, Maria R. Montalvo investigates the legal records, including contracts and court records, that American antebellum enslavers produced and preserved to illuminate enslavers' capitalistic motivations for shaping the histories of enslaved people. The documentary archive was not simply a by-product of the business of slavery, but also a necessary tool that enslavers used to exploit the people they enslaved. Building on Montalvo's analysis of more than 18,000 sets of court records, Enslaved Archives is a close study of what we can and cannot learn about enslaved individuals from the written record. By examining five lawsuits in Louisiana, Montalvo deconstructs enslavers' cases—the legal arguments and rhetorical strategies they used to produce information and shape perceptions of enslaved people. Commodifying enslaved people was not simply a matter of effectively exploiting their labor. Enslavers also needed to control information about those people. Enslavers' narratives—carefully manipulated, prone to omissions, and sometimes false—often survive as the only account of an enslaved individual's life. In working to historicize the people at the center of enslavers' manipulations, Montalvo outlines the possibilities and limits of the archive, providing a glimpse of the historical and contemporary consequences of commodification. Enslaved Archives makes a significant intervention in the history of enslaved people, legal history, and the history of slavery and capitalism by adding a qualitative dimension to the analysis of how enslavers created and maintained power.
Book Synopsis Legislative Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania During the Session of ... by : Pennsylvania
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