"It always has seemed to me that each human being, before going out into the silence, should leave behind him, not the story of this own life, but of the time in which he lived- as he saw it - its creed, its purpose, its queer habits, and the work which it did or left undone in the world." ( Bits of...
William lived there and eventually married Thomas's daughter. A few years later, William went to the U.S. ... In October of 1861, William relieved Anderson. ... Jefferson Davis then replaced Johnston with John Hood because Hood was more aggressive. ... , the answer would be William Sherman....
In the North, where there was an abolitionist movement led by men like William Lloyd Garrison, slavery was protested against as immoral and irrational. ... Under a man named William W. ... However, Confederate President Jefferson Davis felt the war was not just about the interests of slaveholders. ... However, Davis expressed a broader, traditional ideology for going to war. Davis declared that Southerners were fighting for constitutional liberty. ...
She worked closely with black antislavery activist William Still in Philadelphia and with Underground Railroad conductor Thomas Garrett, a Quaker who lived in Wilmington, Delaware. ... In 1869 she married an African American war veteran, Nelson Davis who later died in 1890. ...
President Davis is trying desperately to hold us together, a people who are indignantly demanding our freedoms, rightly so! ... William Byrd founded the present City of Richmond by having Major William Mayo lay the town out into lots and promoting a lottery to sell them off. ...
The Scent of War In the mid 1800's war was in the air. It was a smell, a feeling; it was spreading like a disease and everyone was catching it. It drove people to different decisions on the same idea and this led to trouble. Trouble usually means war, and war means political craziness. A...
Robert E. Lee Early Years: Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807. He was born in Stratford, Virginia. But after four years he moved from Stratford and moved to Alexandria, Virginia were he spent most of his youth. His father Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, a Revolutionary War hero, alo...
Book summary - Up From Slavery The book, Up From Slavery, written by Booker Taliaferro Washington, profoundly touched me when I read it. Washington accomplished many amazing obstacles throughout his life. He became perhaps the most prominent black leader of his time. Blacks could gain equality by im...
Sheridan, and William T. ... They argued that civil government should only be re-established when half of the male white citizens took an oath of loyalty to the Union.# Ben Wade's battle against "executive usurpation" reached its grand climax with the publication of the Wade-Davis manifesto against the Presidential plan for restoring the seceded states.# The Radicals squabbled with Lincoln over whether the President or Congress should determine policies toward the South. ...
