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Author : Oregon Territory. Secretary's Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Secretary Letter Book, 1853-1855 written by Oregon Territory. Secretary's Office and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George H. Ritchie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Correspondence, 1853 May 11-1855 Dec. 18 written by George H. Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letter book (copies) of correspondence between George H. Ritchie, purser; Cadwalader Ringgold and John Rodgers, commanders of the expedition; and James C. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, and Jefferson Davis, Acting Secretary, relating principally to supplies and finances of the expedition.
Author : Jim Jordan
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820351954
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Slave-Trader's Letter-Book written by Jim Jordan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-lost letters tell the story of an illegal slave shipment, a desperate Savannah businessman, and the lead-up to the Civil War. In 1858 Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, in violation of U.S. law, organized the shipment of hundreds of Africans on the luxury yacht Wanderer to Jekyll Island, Georgia. The four hundred survivors of the Middle Passage were sold into bondage. This was the first successful documented slave landing in the United States in about four decades, and it shocked a nation already on the path to civil war. Nearly thirty years later, the North American Review published excerpts from thirty of Lamar’s letters, reportedly taken from his letter book, which describe his criminal activities. However, the authenticity of the letters was in doubt until very recently. In the twenty-first century, researcher Jim Jordan found a cache of private papers belonging to Charles Lamar’s father, stored for decades in an attic in New Jersey. Among the documents was Charles Lamar’s letter book—confirming him as the author. The first part of this book recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Lamar himself, including involvement in southern secession, the slave trade, and a plot to overthrow the government of Cuba. A portrait emerges at odds with Lamar's previous image as a savvy entrepreneur and principled rebel. Instead, we see a man who was often broke and whose volatility sabotaged him at every turn. His involvement in the slave trade was driven more by financial desperation than southern defiance. The second part presents the “Slave-Trader's Letter-Book.” Together with annotations, these seventy long-lost letters shed light on the lead-up to the Civil War from the remarkable perspective of a troubled, and troubling, figure.
Author : United States. National Archives and Records Service
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Records Relating to the United States Surveying Expedition to the North Pacific Ocean, 1852-1863 written by United States. National Archives and Records Service and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Consular Letters, 1853-1855 written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jefferson Davis
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Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist written by Jefferson Davis and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Southern Confederacy lies in the letters, speeches, and State papers of its leaders; and its best justification will come after such historical materials have been made accessible to the truth-loving historian of the future. The private and public papers of such Southern leaders as Calhoun, Davis, and Lee will reveal, as nothing else can, the principles for which they contended, and give to posterity the true estimate of their lives and deeds. -- Introduction.
Author : Harriet Deacon
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864862990
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Island written by Harriet Deacon and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robben Island is a low-lying outcrop of rock and sand guarding the entrance to South Africa's Table Bay. Although it is just a few kilometres long and a barely swimmable distance from Cape Town, it may well be the most significant historical site in South Africa today.
Author : United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers to the Secretary of War for the Year ... written by United States. War Department. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. War Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Secretary of War written by United States. War Department and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book The consular letters, 1853-1855 written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert O'Harrow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451671946
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Quartermaster written by Robert O'Harrow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The lively story of the Civil War’s most unlikely—and most uncelebrated—genius” (The Wall Street Journal)—General Montgomery C. Meigs, who built the Union Army and was judged by Abraham Lincoln, William Seward, and Edwin Stanton to be the indispensable architect of the Union victory. Born to a well-to-do, connected family in 1816, Montgomery C. Meigs graduated from West Point as an engineer. He helped build America’s forts and served under Lt. Robert E. Lee to make navigation improvements on the Mississippi River. As a young man, he designed the Washington aqueducts in a city where people were dying from contaminated water. He built the spectacular wings and the massive dome of the brand new US Capitol. Introduced to President Lincoln by Secretary of State William Seward, Meigs became Lincoln’s Quartermaster, in charge of supplies. It was during the Civil War that Meigs became a national hero. He commanded Ulysses S. Grant’s base of supplies that made Union victories, including Gettysburg, possible. He sustained Sherman’s army in Georgia, and the March to the Sea. After the war, Meigs built Arlington Cemetery (on land that had been Robert E. Lee’s home). Civil War historian James McPherson calls Meigs “the unsung hero of northern victory,” and Robert O’Harrow Jr.’s biography of the victorious general who was never on the battlefield tells the full dramatic story of this fierce, strong, honest, loyal, forward-thinking figure. “An excellent biography…O’Harrow’s thorough, masterfully crafted, and impeccable researched biography is destined to become the authoritative volume on Meigs” (The Civil War Monitor).
Author : Jefferson Davis
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807158747
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Jefferson Davis written by Jefferson Davis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1985-10-01 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Seaton Dix, Associate Editor The fifth volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis presents 9,000 of the approximately 21,000 known Davis letters, papers, and speeches from the years 1853 through 1855, when Davis served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce. Most of the documents are included in summary form in an extensive calendar; 93 are published in full with annotation.Well prepared for the War Department position by his military education and experience, Davis was already known as a champion of the army and West Point from his years in Congress. As secretary, Davis administered a department of eight bureaus and a military establishment spread thinly from coast to coast. An increase and reorganization of the army along with the establishment of new posts became top priorities as a tide of settlers encroached in Indian lands in the Mexican cession and Far West. Davis also supervised army engineering projects as varied as the Capitol extension, military roads, and river and harbor improvements. The curriculum of the Military Academy, new weapons and armaments development, the activities of the Crimea commission, the Pacific railroad surveys, and the camel expedition -- all commanded his minute attention.Despite the burdens of office, Davis maintained a lively interest in the issues of the day, among them Latin American filibustering, the purchase of Cuba, states' rights, slavery, and the conflict in Kansas. The wide attention accorded his travels and speeches brought national prominence to him and speculation about his future candidacy for governor, a return to the Senate, the vice-presidency, and even the presidency. Personal correspondence includes letters that touch on Davis' long estrangement from his brother, the death of his first child, persistent health problems, and relationships with friends and family. Much of hiss official correspondence, especially several angry exchanges with army officers, reveals even more about Davis' personality. In addition to the documents published in full and calendared, an appendix includes over one hundred recently discovered personal and political items dates from 1838 through 1852, before Davis' selection as secretary of war.
Author : Michael J. Alarid
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826366260
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Hispano Bastion written by Michael J. Alarid and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, historian Michael J. Alarid examines New Mexico’s transition from Spanish to Mexican to US control during the nineteenth century and illuminates how emerging class differences played a crucial role in the regime change. After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, trade between Mexico and the United States attracted wealthy Hispanos into a new market economy and increased trade along El Camino Real, turning it into a burgeoning exchange route. As landowning Hispanos benefited from the Santa Fe trade, traditional relationships between wealthy and poor Nuevomexicanos—whom Alarid calls patrónes and vecinos—started to shift. Far from being displaced by US colonialism, wealthy Nuevomexicanos often worked in concert with new American officials after US troops marched into New Mexico in 1846, and in the process, Alarid argues, the patrónes abandoned their customary obligations to vecinos, who were now evolving into a working class. Wealthy Nuevomexicanos, the book argues, succeeded in preserving New Mexico as a Hispano bastion, but they did so at the expense of poor vecinos.
Author : Roger W. Lotchin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066313
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)
Download or read book San Francisco, 1846-1856 written by Roger W. Lotchin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.
Author : Great Britain. India Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book List of General Records, 1599-1879 written by Great Britain. India Office and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Grady
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786478217
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Matthew Fontaine Maury, Father of Oceanography written by John Grady and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In becoming "a useful man" on the maritime stage, Matthew Fontaine Maury focused on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped bind the Old and New worlds with the laying of the transatlantic cable, forcefully advocated Southern rights in a troubled union, and preached Manifest Destiny from the Arctic to Cape Horn. And he revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically detonated mines. Maury's eagerness to go to the public on the questions of the day riled powerful men in business and politics, and the U.S., Confederate and Royal navies. He more than once ran afoul of Jefferson Davis and Stephen R. Mallory, secretary of the Confederate States Navy. But through the political, social and scientific struggles of his time, Maury had his share of powerful allies, like President John Tyler.
Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
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Total Pages : 1580 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Votes & Proceedings written by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 1580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
