Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grant Under Fire written by Joseph Rose and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grant Under Fire comprehensively dissects the military career of Ulysses S. Grant. Rigorously based on a wealth of primary sources--many not cited before--the book resolves scores of controversies, such as his drunken partying with the enemy on flag-of-truce boats out of Cairo, dishonestly blaming Lew Wallace for the march to Shiloh, pretending that he had the ultimate plan to pass Vicksburg all along, stealing the credit for the charge up Missionary Ridge, and leaving wounded men to suffer and die between the lines at Cold Harbor.Despite his sterling reputation as an officer and a gentleman, he suffered the biggest surprise of the American Civil War, committed the worst official act of anti-Semitism on this nation's soil, and came closest of all Union generals to losing Washington. Defenders rank his generalship above Robert E. Lee's, but to do so, they must ignore his simplistic, aggressive strategies that led to a war of attrition and the amateurish tactics of impetuous, frontal assaults, all along the line and against fortified positions.Grant Under Fire overturns the familiar renditions by detailing Grant's corruption at Cairo, his occupation of Paducah under orders, his incapacity in the Mississippi Delta, and the army's non-triumphal exit from the Wilderness, as well as debunking a host of other oft-told tales and myths.
Download or read book Georgia s Landmarks Memorials and Legends written by Lucian Lamar Knight and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes DeSoto memorials, Georgia's state seals, and the first steamboat patent.
Download or read book A Standard History of Georgia and Georgians written by Lucian Lamar Knight and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Moore 1612 1897 written by John Andrew Moore Passmore and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Public Printer written by United States. Government Printing Office and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Santiago Campaign 1898 written by Joseph Wheeler and published by Boston : Lamson, Wolffe. This book was released on 1898 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Watauga County North Carolina written by John Preston Arthur and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2002 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Walker County Georgia written by James Alfred Sartain and published by Southern Historical Press. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By: James A. Sartain, Pub. 1932, Reprinted 2019, 570 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-887-0. Walker County was created in 1833 from Murray County which in turn was created from Cherokee County in 1832 and Cherokee was created in 1832 from Indian lands in the northwestern portion of the state. This history is similar to other history books of the era with discussions of: formation of county, Indians, commerce, religion, education, militia districts, slavery, involvement in various wars, and items all important to the development of the county. The author has given considerable amount of data on the Civil War with such things as Muster Rolls being listed for various companies and he has also included Biographical Sketches of: Anderson, Andrews, Arnold, Bayless, Blackwell, Blaylock, Brothers, Brown, Bryan, Center, Chambers, Chastain, Clarkson, Clements, Conley, Copeland, Coulters, Dickerson, Dunn, Dyer, Fariss, Freeman, Garmany, Graham, Hackney, Hall, Hammond, Haslerig, Hearn, Henderson, Henry, Hixon, Hunter, Jackson, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Keown, McConnell, McCulloh, McCutchen, McFarland, Miller, Millican, Moore, Myers, Napier, Park, Parker, Patton, Pickle, Pittman, Ponder, Ransom, Roberts, Sartain, Schmitt, Shattuck, Shaw, Simmons, Sizemore, Spearman, Stansell, Stegall, Suttle, Thurman (2), Tucker (2), Veatch, Weaver, Wheeler, White, Whitlow, Wood (2), and Young. The reader will also discover a chapter devoted to tombstone inscriptions of 54 early public and private cemeteries.
Download or read book Statement of Procedural Rules written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Money New South written by Dean W. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John T. Lupton, the godfather of Coca-Cola bottling, and Harry Scott Probasco, founder of the "Coca-Cola bank," guided Chattanoooga, Tennessee, with a quiet but powerful hand for decades. Generations later, the names Lupton and Probasco-and a handful of intermarried families-continue to form a controversial web of leadership for the city.This strategic crossroads through the mountains is the scene of ancient warpaths, the launching of the Trail of Tears, the greatest two-day battle in American history, and the founding of the world's most popular product. From its religious and progressive tension to its cryptic, indigenous name, Chattanooga proves to be an enigma at every turn."Chattanooga is a money town . . . more of a controlled city," says Walter Williams, the town's first elected African American judge, who contrasts this New South city with its neighbors -Atlanta, Nashville, and Birmingham. The judge points to Chattanooga's prominent families as a unique feature. "Names run it now [and] clearly in the past ran Chattanooga," he says.A Northern elite joined Southern families to create a modern aristocracy of sorts that lingers to this day. Chattanooga arguably gave more philanthropic dollars than any other city in the South during the 20th century. Thanks to a number of fortunes, including several amassed by bottling Coca-Cola (a concept started by Chattanoogans), the city now boasts three of the nation's most prestigious prep schools, one of the largest Christian foundations in the world, and, in the past century, perhaps the most concentrated wealth in a few hands in any town, anywhere.Those families, who today live primarily on Lookout Mountain, were forged into a benevolent force by the unusually strong presence of the Presbyterian church. Worldly wealth is important not only for saving souls, but also for improving the community on this side of heaven, they were told. Meanwhile, those in "the valley" struggle to interpret the actions of their prominent neighbors as positive rather than paternalistic or even self-dealing. As the influence of Presbyterianism declines, the community looks for other solutions to bridge the gap between Mountain and Valley.Journalist Dean Arnold provides a portrait of this extraordinary Southern city through interviewing fifty of its leaders, personalities, politicians, and prominent family members. He also weaves a number of historical insights from the Civil War to the Trail of Tears (launched from Chattanooga) to ancient Indian settlements and discussions on the meaning of "Chattanooga." All this, along with the engaging conversational style, helps to make Old Money, New South: The Spirit of Chattanooga an enjoyable and enlightening read.
Download or read book A History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry written by Henry H. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
Download or read book The Woodland Southeast written by David G. Anderson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002-05-10 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, and organizational complexity. At the beginning of the period, people are assumed to have been living in small groups, loosely bound by collective burial rituals. But by the first millennium A.D., some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centers ruled by hereditary elites. Maize was now the primary food crop. Perhaps most importantly, the ancient animal-focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with one another. This volume synthesizes the research on what happened during this era and how these changes came about while analyzing the period's archaeological record. In gathering the latest research available on the Woodland Period, the editors have included contributions from the full range of specialists working in the field, highlighted major themes, and directed readers to the proper primary sources. Of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur, this will be a valuable reference work essential to understanding the Woodland Period in the Southeast.
Download or read book Life on Mars written by David A. Weintraub and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for life on Mars—and the moral issues confronting us as we prepare to send humans there Does life exist on Mars? The question has captivated humans for centuries, but today it has taken on new urgency. As space agencies gear up to send the first manned missions to the Red Planet, we have a responsibility to think deeply about what kinds of life may already dwell there—and whether we have the right to invite ourselves in. Telling the complete story of our ongoing quest to answer one of the most tantalizing questions in astronomy, David Weintraub grapples with the profound moral and ethical questions confronting us as we prepare to introduce an unpredictable new life form—ourselves—into the Martian biosphere. Now with an afterword that discusses the most recent discoveries, Life on Mars explains what we need to know before we go.
Download or read book Civil War Memoirs written by Philip Sheridan and published by Domain. This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1888, Union General Philip Sheridan's memoirs.