Author: Horace Greeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions of 1856, 1860 and 1864
Author: Horace Greeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Library of the Late Major William H. Lambert of Philadelphia .. to be Sold ... at the Anderson Galleries
Author: William Harrison Lambert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Peacemakers of 1864
Author: Edward Chase Kirkland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Field of Blood
Author: Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374717613
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
States at War, Volume 4
Author: Richard F. Miller
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611686210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 929
Book Description
While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organizations, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Civil War States and state governments must assemble data from a variety of sources, with many key sources remaining unavailable online. This crucial reference book, the fourth in the States at War series, provides vital information on the organization, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey during the Civil War. Its principal sources include the Official Records, state adjutant-general reports, legislative journals, state and federal legislation, federal and state executive speeches and proclamations, and the general and special orders issued by the military authorities of both governments, North and South. Designed and organized for easy use by professional historians and amateurs, this book can be read in two ways: by individual state, with each chapter offering a stand-alone history of an individual stateÕs war years; or across states, comparing reactions to the same event or solutions to the same problems.
Publisher: University Press of New England
ISBN: 1611686210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 929
Book Description
While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organizations, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Civil War States and state governments must assemble data from a variety of sources, with many key sources remaining unavailable online. This crucial reference book, the fourth in the States at War series, provides vital information on the organization, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey during the Civil War. Its principal sources include the Official Records, state adjutant-general reports, legislative journals, state and federal legislation, federal and state executive speeches and proclamations, and the general and special orders issued by the military authorities of both governments, North and South. Designed and organized for easy use by professional historians and amateurs, this book can be read in two ways: by individual state, with each chapter offering a stand-alone history of an individual stateÕs war years; or across states, comparing reactions to the same event or solutions to the same problems.
Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book Shop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Remaking the Democratic Party
Author: Hanes Walton
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047211994X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Examining Southern support for Johnson throughout his political career and his transformative leadership of the Democratic Party
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047211994X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Examining Southern support for Johnson throughout his political career and his transformative leadership of the Democratic Party
Library of the Late Major William H. Lambert of Philadelphia .. to be Sold ... at the Anderson Galleries: Civil War. Sold March 9-10, 1914. 1194 entries
Author: William Harrison Lambert
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 716
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Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
A Catalog of the Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description