Author: William Prescott SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857
Author: William Prescott SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857
Author: William Prescott SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 ... First Edition
Author: William Prescott SMITHPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 ... First Edition
Author: William Prescott SMITHPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria: P to Z and addenda
Author: Public Library of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Great Epochs in American History: Slavery and the Mexican War : 1840-1860
Author: Francis Whiting HalseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Railroad Finance
Author: Frederick Albert ClevelandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Great Epochs in American History
Author: Francis Whiting HalseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Seceding from Secession
Author: Eric J. WittenbergPublisher: Savas Beatie
ISBN: 1611215072
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A “thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening” account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). “West Virginia was the child of the storm.” —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union’s 35th state. Seceding from Secession chronicles those events in an unprecedented study of the social, legal, military, and political factors that converged to bring about the birth of West Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln, an astute lawyer in his own right, played a critical role in birthing the new state. The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president, and he polled every member of his cabinet before signing the bill. Seceding from Secession includes a detailed discussion of the 1871 U.S. Supreme Court decision Virginia v. West Virginia, in which former Lincoln cabinet member Salmon Chase presided as chief justice over the court that decided the constitutionality of the momentous event. Grounded in a wide variety of sources and including a foreword by Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and Chairman Emeritus of the Lincoln Forum, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in American history.
