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Memorial Addresses On The Life Of Randall Lee Gibson
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Book Synopsis Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Randall Lee Gibson, (a Senator from Louisiana,) by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Randall Lee Gibson, (a Senator from Louisiana,) written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana by : Mary Gorton McBride
Download or read book Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana written by Mary Gorton McBride and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana offers the first biography of one of Louisiana's most intriguing nineteenth-century politicians and a founder of Tulane University. Gibson (1832--1892) grew up on his family's sugar plantation in Terrebonne Parish and was educated at Yale University before studying law at the University of Louisiana in New Orleans. He purchased a sugar plantation in Lafourche Parish in 1858 and became heavily involved in the pro-secession faction of the Democratic Party. Elected colonel of the Thirteenth Louisiana Volunteer Regiment at the start of the Civil War, he commanded a brigade in the Battle of Shiloh and fought in all of the subsequent campaigns of the Army of Tennessee, concluding in 1865 with the Battle of Spanish Fort. As Gibson struggled to establish a law practice in postwar New Orleans, he experienced a profound change in his thinking and came to believe that the elimination of slavery was the one good outcome of the South's defeat. Joining Louisiana's Conservative political faction, he advocated for a postwar unification government that included African Americans. Elected to Congress in 1874, Gibson was directly involved in the creation of the Electoral Commission that resulted in the Compromise of 1877 and peacefully solved the disputed 1876 presidential election. He crafted legislation for the Mississippi River Commission in 1879, which eventually resulted in millions of federal dollars for flood control. Gibson was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1880 and became Louisiana's leading "minister of reconciliation" with his northern colleagues and its chief political spokesman during the highly volatile Gilded Age. He deplored the growing gap between the rich and the poor and embraced a reformist agenda that included federal funding for public schools and legislation for levee construction, income taxes, and the direct election of senators. This progressive stance made Gibson one of the last patrician Democrats whose noblesse oblige politics sought common middle ground between the extreme political and social positions of his era. At the request of wealthy New Orleans merchant Paul Tulane, Gibson took charge of Tulane's educational endowment and helped design the university that bears Tulane's name, serving as the founding president of the board of administrators. Highly readable and thoroughly researched, Mary Gorton McBride's absorbing biography illuminates in dramatic fashion the life and times of a unique Louisianan.
Book Synopsis Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909 by :
Download or read book Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909 written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 by : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Download or read book Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909 written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909: Lists of congressional and departmental publications by : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Download or read book Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909: Lists of congressional and departmental publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis "Digging All Night and Fighting All Day" by : Paul Brueske
Download or read book "Digging All Night and Fighting All Day" written by Paul Brueske and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2024-08-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bloody two-week siege of Spanish Fort, Alabama (March 26–April 8, 1865) was one of the final battles of the Civil War. Despite its importance and fascinating history, surprisingly little has been written about it. Many considered the fort as the key to holding the important seaport of Mobile, which surrendered to Maj. Gen. Edward R. S. Canby on April 12, 1865. Paul Brueske’s “Digging All Night and Fighting All Day”: The Civil War Siege of Spanish Fort and the Mobile Campaign, 1865 is the first full-length study of this subject. General U. S. Grant had long set his eyes on capturing Mobile. Its fall would eliminate the vital logistical center and put one of the final nails in the coffin of the Confederacy. On January 18, 1865, Grant ordered General Canby to move against Mobile, Montgomery, and Selma and destroy anything useful to the enemy’s war effort. The reduction of Spanish Fort, along with Fort Blakeley—the primary obstacles to taking Mobile—was a prerequisite to capturing the city. After the devastating Tennessee battles of Franklin and Nashville in late 1864, many Federals believed Mobile’s garrison—which included a few battered brigades and most of the artillery units from the Army of Tennessee—did not have much fight left and would evacuate the city rather than fight. They did not. Despite being outnumbered about 10 to 1, 33-year-old Brig. Gen. Randall Lee Gibson mounted a skillful and spirited defense that “considerably astonished” his Union opponents. The siege and battle that unfolded on the rough and uneven bluffs of Mobile Bay’s eastern shore, fought mainly by veterans of the principal battles of the Western Theater, witnessed every offensive and defensive art known to war. Paul Brueske, a graduate student of history at the University of South Alabama, marshaled scores of primary source materials, including letters, diaries, reports, and newspaper accounts to produce an outstanding study of a little known but astonishingly important event rife with acts of heroism that rivaled any battle of the war. It will proudly occupy a space on the bookshelf of any serious student of the war.
Book Synopsis The Invisible Line by : Daniel J. Sharfstein
Download or read book The Invisible Line written by Daniel J. Sharfstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Invisible Line" shines light on one of the most important, but too often hidden, aspects of American history and culture. Sharfstein's narrative of three families negotiating America's punishing racial terrain is a must read for all who are interested in the construction of race in the United States." --Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello In America, race is a riddle. The stories we tell about our past have calcified into the fiction that we are neatly divided into black or white. It is only with the widespread availability of DNA testing and the boom in genealogical research that the frequency with which individuals and entire families crossed the color line has become clear. In this sweeping history, Daniel J. Sharfstein unravels the stories of three families who represent the complexity of race in America and force us to rethink our basic assumptions about who we are. The Gibsons were wealthy landowners in the South Carolina backcountry who became white in the 1760s, ascending to the heights of the Southern elite and ultimately to the U.S. Senate. The Spencers were hardscrabble farmers in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, joining an isolated Appalachian community in the 1840s and for the better part of a century hovering on the line between white and black. The Walls were fixtures of the rising black middle class in post-Civil War Washington, D.C., only to give up everything they had fought for to become white at the dawn of the twentieth century. Together, their interwoven and intersecting stories uncover a forgotten America in which the rules of race were something to be believed but not necessarily obeyed. Defining their identities first as people of color and later as whites, these families provide a lens for understanding how people thought about and experienced race and how these ideas and experiences evolved-how the very meaning of black and white changed-over time. Cutting through centuries of myth, amnesia, and poisonous racial politics, The Invisible Line will change the way we talk about race, racism, and civil rights.
Download or read book Senators of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Senators of the United States by : Diane B. Boyle
Download or read book Senators of the United States written by Diane B. Boyle and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. Doc. 103-34. Compiled by Jo Anne McCormick Quatannens, Diane B. Boyle, editorial assistant, prepared under the direction of Kelly D. Johnston, Secretary of the Senate. Lists scholarly works that profile the lives and legislative service of senators and their autobiographies and other published works.
Book Synopsis Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh by : Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Download or read book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classified Catalogue by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895-1902 by : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895-1902 written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes by :
Download or read book Classified Catalog of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. 1895-1902. In Three Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Education in Louisiana by : Michael G. Wade
Download or read book Education in Louisiana written by Michael G. Wade and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1999 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough examination of Louisiana's educational history.
Book Synopsis Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Charles Frederick Crisp (late a Representative from Georgia), Delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate, Fifty-fourth Congress, Second Session by :
Download or read book Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Charles Frederick Crisp (late a Representative from Georgia), Delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate, Fifty-fourth Congress, Second Session written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
