Download or read book The Monocacy Legacy written by John Crouch and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-05-10 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After its victory at the Monocacy River in Maryland on July 9, 1864, Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Earlys Army of the Valley marched upon Washington, D.C. Three days later, President Abraham Lincoln is killed at Fort Stevens, one of the forts in Washingtons defense perimeter, while watching a skirmish between Earlys Confederates and Union defenders of the city. Lincolns death four months before the presidential election in November causes numerous political and military crises for his successor, Vice President Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. Could the Civil War have ended this way? If it had, what would America be like today?
Download or read book The Monocacy Legacy written by John H. Crouch and published by Publishers Circulation Corporation. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Legacy of Valor written by Henry Newton Comey and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An educated young man, his observations and political commentary reflect his evolution from eager young private to hardened veteran."--Jacket.
Download or read book Legacy of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legacy written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Determined to Stand and Fight written by Ryan Quint and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early July 1864, a quickly patched together force of outnumbered Union soldiers under the command of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace prepared for a last-ditch defense along the banks of the Monocacy River. Behind them, barely fifty miles away, lay the capital of the United States, open to attack. Facing Wallace’s men were Lt. Gen. Jubal Early’s Confederates. In just over a month, they had cleared the Shenandoah Valley of Union soldiers and crossed the Potomac River, invading the north for the third time in the war. The veterans in Early’s force could almost imagine their flags flying above the White House. A Confederate victory near Washington could be all the pro-peace platforms in the north needed to defeat Abraham Lincoln in the upcoming election. Then came Monocacy. Over the course of the day, Union and Confederate soldiers attacked and counter-attacked, filling the fields just south of Frederick, Maryland, with the dead and wounded. By the end of the day, Wallace’s men fell into retreat, but they had done their job: they had slowed Jubal Early. The fighting at Monocacy soon became known as the “Battle that Saved Washington.” Determined to Stand and Fight by Ryan T. Quint tells the story of that pivotal day and an even more pivotal campaign that went right to the gates of Washington, D.C. Readers can enjoy the narrative and then easily follow along on a nine-stop driving tour around the battlefield and into the streets of historic Frederick. Another fascinating title from the award-winning Emerging Civil War Series.
Download or read book The C O Canal Companion written by Mike High and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to one of America's unique national parks, The C&O Canal Companion takes readers on a mile-by-mile, lock-by-lock tour of the 184-mile Potomac River waterway and towpath that stretches from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland, and the Allegheny Mountains. Making extensive use of records at the National Archives and the C&O Canal Park Headquarters, Mike High demonstrates how events and places along the canal relate to the history of the nation, from Civil War battles and river crossings to the frontier forts guarding the route to the West. Using attractive photographs and drawings, he introduces park visitors to the hidden history along the canal and provides practical advice on cycling, paddling, and hiking—all the information needed to fully enjoy the park's varied delights. Thoroughly overhauled and expanded, the second edition of this popular, fact-packed book features updated maps and photographs, as well as the latest information on lodgings and other facilities for hikers, bikers, and campers on weekend excursions or extended outdoor vacations. It also delves deeper into the history of the upland region, relaying new narratives about Native American settlements, the European explorers and traders who were among the first settlers, and the lives of slaves and free blacks who lived along or escaped slavery via the canal. Visitors to the C&O Canal who are interested in exploring natural wonders while tracing the routes of pioneers and engineers—not to mention the path of George Washington, who explored the Potomac route to the West as a young man and later laid out the first canals to make the river navigable—will find this guide indispensable.
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Download or read book Restoring Layered Landscapes written by Marion Hourdequin and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restoring Layered Landscapes brings together historians, geographers, philosophers, and interdisciplinary scholars to explore ecological restoration in landscapes with complex histories shaped by ongoing interactions between humans and nature. For many decades, ecological restoration - particularly in the United States - focused on returning degraded sites to conditions that prevailed prior to human influence. This model has been broadened in recent decades, and restoration now increasingly focuses on the recovery of ecological functions and processes rather than on returning a site to a specific historical state. Nevertheless, neither the theory nor the practice of restoration has fully come to terms with the challenges of restoring layered landscapes, where nature and culture shape one another in deep and ongoing relationships. Former military and industrial sites provide paradigmatic examples of layered landscapes. Many of these sites are not only characterized by natural ecosystems worth preserving and restoring, but also embody significant political, social, and cultural histories. This volume grapples with the challenges of restoring and interpreting such complex sites: What should we aim to restore in such places? How can restoration adequately take the legacies of human use into account? Should traces of the past be left on the landscape, and how can interpretive strategies be creatively employed to make visible the complex legacies of an open pit mine or chemical weapons manufacturing plant? Restoration aims to create new value, but not always without loss. Restoration often disrupts existing ecosystems, infrastructure, and artifacts. The chapters in this volume consider what restoration can tell us more generally about the relationship between continuity and change, and how the past can and should inform our thinking about the future. These insights, in turn, will help foster a more thoughtful approach to human-environment relations in an era of unprecedented anthropogenic global environmental change.
Download or read book Determined to Stand and Fight written by Ryan Quint and published by Emerging Civil War. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the fighting at Monocacy, known as the "Battle that Saved Washington." A pivotal day and an even more pivotal campaign that went right to the gates of Washington, D.C.
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Download or read book Monocacy and Catoctin written by C. E. Schildknecht and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers European origins with references. Bibliography of genealogies of families: Wood, Birely, Weller, Meyerhoffer, Brown, Braun, Spannseller, Weybright, Hesson, Reifsnider, Fisher, Schildknecht and Shuff in Western Maryland and Southern Pennsylvania. Chapters include: Our Family Names; European Origins of Settlers; Genealogy List: Family Histories of Interest in Western Maryland and Neighboring Pennsylvania; Early Roads, Fords and Bridges; Wood Families of Woodsboro; Birely and Byerly Families; Weller and Related Families; Descendants of Philip and Barbara Sponseller (Spannseiler); Meyerhoeffer Families; Brown and Braun Families of Carroll County; Weybright and Waybright Families; Hesson and Hessong Families; Reifsnider and Related Families; Descendants of Thomas Fisher and Related Families; Schildknecht and Related Families; Shuff Families; Additions to Monocacy and Catoctin, Vol. I; and, Index of Family Names.
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Download or read book Men Are Doomed written by Warren Brown and published by B-Side Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to the world if women are in charge—of everything? Dandi always wanted to communicate with animals. Laney just wanted to raise her son. Vic longed to paint portraits that dripped with emotion. Mac couldn’t help but get wistful over his daughter. Each was quite certain about how the world worked. Most of it was charted and mapped, of course, but perhaps some wasn’t—they could accept that. But reason has its limits. When a diabolical plan kicks-off outside of those bounds at lightning speed, the weight of the unknown will pull the curtain off of hierarchy to unseat the natural order and reset scales. It will begin in plain sight... quietly and without notice. It may have already. In Men Are Doomed an ensemble of characters race to solve the mystery and, in their scramble, face the question of how well they understand their world.
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