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Book Stolen Charleston

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Grahame Long
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 1625845499
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book Stolen Charleston written by J. Grahame Long and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During both the American Revolution and the Civil War, Charleston was not just a symbolic target but also one of the wealthiest--at least until the shelling started. Once the redcoats of 1780 and the Yankees of 1865 stormed in, nary a church, business or private home was spared fevered plundering. Worse, Charleston's own homefront defenders oftentimes helped themselves to unguarded heirlooms. In 1779, Eliza Wilkinson's shoe buckles were stolen right off her feet. In 1865, Union soldiers butchered several of Williams Middleton's valuable water buffalo and stole the others, some of which were later found at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. Join author and historian J. Grahame Long as he recounts the looting and lost treasures of Charleston.

Book Lost Charleston

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Grahame Long
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2019-04-22
  • ISBN : 1439666709
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Lost Charleston written by J. Grahame Long and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in a city as conscious of history as Charleston, not everything has survived. Natural disasters, wars and other calamities claimed many treasures. Only a few preserved bits of one of the city's grandest mansions survive at Dock Street Theatre. An old Quaker graveyard still rests in peace but does so under a downtown parking garage. The famous corner of Meeting and Broad Streets was once the area's busiest marketplace. The Grace Memorial Bridge spanned the Cooper River for more than seventy years. Author J. Grahame Long details the history of these and more lost locations in the Holy City.

Book Stolen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Russell Roberts
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780786406500
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Stolen written by Russell Roberts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stolen base is one of the most fascinating plays in all of sports. In no other sport is the opportunity present for the offense to literally take away what belongs to the defense. In other sports it is the ball (or puck) that must do the scoring; in baseball, however, it is the runner, and base stealing is the runner's greatest weapon. Not just ball games but entire World Series have turned on a steal. This book traces the history of the stolen base and stealing in the major leagues from its humble beginnings through its current status as an indispensable part of a team's offense. Also covered are the players who were synonymous with base stealing: Ty Cobb, Luis Aparicio, Maury Wills, Lou Brock, Rickey Henderson, and others. The most memorable steals in baseball history are also recalled.

Book Stolen Dreams

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris Lamb
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2022-04
  • ISBN : 1496231120
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Stolen Dreams written by Chris Lamb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the eleven- and twelve-year-olds on the Cannon Street YMCA All-Star team registered for a baseball tournament in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 1955, it put the team and the forces of integration on a collision course with segregation, bigotry, and the southern way of life. White teams refused to take the field with the Cannon Street All-Stars, the first Black Little League team in South Carolina. The Cannon Street team won the tournament by forfeit and advanced to the state tournament. When all the white teams withdrew in protest, the Cannon Street team won the state tournament. If the team had won the regional tournament in Rome, Georgia, it would have advanced to the Little League World Series. But Little League officials ruled the team ineligible to play in the tournament because it had advanced by winning on forfeit and not on the field, denying the boys their dream of playing in the Little League World Series. Little League Baseball invited the Cannon Street All-Stars to be the organization’s guests at the World Series, where they heard spectators yell, “Let them play! Let them play!” when the ballplayers were introduced. This became a national story for a few weeks but then faded and disappeared as Americans read of other civil rights stories, including the torture and murder of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till. Stolen Dreams is the story of the Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars and of the early civil rights movement. It’s also the story of centuries of bigotry in Charleston, South Carolina—where millions of enslaved people were brought to this country and where the Civil War began, where segregation remained for a century after the war ended and anyone who challenged it did so at their own risk.

Book South Carolina Digest  1783 1886

Download or read book South Carolina Digest 1783 1886 written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost Charleston

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Grahame Long
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2019-04-22
  • ISBN : 1467139041
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book Lost Charleston written by J. Grahame Long and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in a city as conscious of history as Charleston, not everything has survived. Natural disasters, wars and other calamities claimed many treasures. Only a few preserved bits of one of the city's grandest mansions survive at Dock Street Theatre. An old Quaker graveyard still rests in peace but does so under a downtown parking garage. The famous corner of Meeting and Broad Streets was once the area's busiest marketplace. The Grace Memorial Bridge spanned the Cooper River for more than seventy years. Author J. Grahame Long details the history of these and more lost locations in the Holy City.

Book The Early South Carolina Newspaper ESCN Database Reports

Download or read book The Early South Carolina Newspaper ESCN Database Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lost Southern Chefs

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  • Author : Robert F. Moss
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2022-02-15
  • ISBN : 0820360848
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The Lost Southern Chefs written by Robert F. Moss and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, food writers and historians have begun to retell the story of southern food. Heirloom ingredients and traditional recipes have been rediscovered, the foundational role that African Americans played in the evolution of southern cuisine is coming to be recognized, and writers are finally clearing away the cobwebs of romantic myth that have long distorted the picture. The story of southern dining, however, remains incomplete. The Lost Southern Chefs begins to fill that niche by charting the evolution of commercial dining in the nineteenth-century South. Robert F. Moss punctures long-accepted notions that dining outside the home was universally poor, arguing that what we would today call “fine dining” flourished throughout the region as its towns and cities grew. Moss describes the economic forces and technological advances that revolutionized public dining, reshaped commercial pantries, and gave southerners who loved to eat a wealth of restaurants, hotel dining rooms, oyster houses, confectionery stores, and saloons. Most important, Moss tells the forgotten stories of the people who drove this culinary revolution. These men and women fully embodied the title “chef,” as they were the chiefs of their kitchens, directing large staffs, staging elaborate events for hundreds of guests, and establishing supply chains for the very best ingredients from across the expanding nation. Many were African Americans or recent immigrants from Europe, and they achieved culinary success despite great barriers and social challenges. These chefs and entrepreneurs became embroiled in the pitched political battles of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, and then their names were all but erased from history.

Book Pemberton  The General Who Lost Vicksburg

Download or read book Pemberton The General Who Lost Vicksburg written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1967

Download or read book Department of Defense Appropriations for 1967 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Secretary of Defense  Chairman  Joint Chiefs of Staff  Overall financial statements  Service Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff   Monday  February 14  1966

Download or read book Secretary of Defense Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Overall financial statements Service Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff Monday February 14 1966 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Defense and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings  Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Appropriations

Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Appropriations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Right Guard

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alexandra Hamlet
  • Publisher : Bublish, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-11
  • ISBN : 098464931X
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book The Right Guard written by Alexandra Hamlet and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read for any spy aficionado!” — Former Senior Operations Officer, CIA “It is a profound book. One I won’t forget for a long while.” — Senior Military Officer, Pentagon Someone is stealing weapons and ammunition from America's military bases. Who is stealing them and why? That is what CIA operative Eric Brent faces as he is being used by the CIA to flush out a secretive, "phantom" group hostile to a U.S. administration that threatens to destroy the American economy and shrink individual freedoms under the code name, Project Warrior. Alexandra Hamlet’s first novel, The Right Guard, takes us on a suspense-filled journey through the world of intelligence and defense in the 1970s. Over one million military weapons and equipment are missing from the U.S. military inventories across the country. Though set in 1978, The Right Guard resembles the present political and economic climate of the United States, giving the reader a sense that such a scenario is very conceivable even today.

Book The Revised Statutes of the State of South Carolina

Download or read book The Revised Statutes of the State of South Carolina written by South Carolina and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Freedom Seekers

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  • Author : Damian Alan Pargas
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-11-18
  • ISBN : 1107179556
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Freedom Seekers written by Damian Alan Pargas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the experiences of runaway slaves in North America, conceptually dividing the continent into three distinct 'spaces of freedom'.

Book Gullah Statesman

Download or read book Gullah Statesman written by Edward A. Miller, Jr. and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political biography of the first African American hero of the Civil War A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Robert Smalls was born into slavery but—through acts of remarkable courage and determination—became the first African American hero of the Civil War and one of the most influential African American politicians in South Carolina history. In this largely political biography of Smalls's inspirational story, Edward A. Miller, Jr., traces the triumphs and setbacks of the celebrated U.S. congressman and advocate of compulsory, desegregated public education to illustrate how the life and contributions of this singular individual were indicative of the rise and fall of political influence for all African Americans during this rough transitional period in American history.