One of the most significant entries that Mary makes is on the night of April 12th. That is the night that, according to Mary's journal, her husband James is summoned to request the surrender of Fort Sumter. ... But to Mary, it is her James that is the true leader of the night's events. ... One entry in her journal notes, "As General Lee walks in to the church our eyes met. ... Although Isabella had made some attempts to get the journal published, it wasn't until 1904 that the notes were stumbled across by a journalist from New York that convinced Mrs. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another weakness is that it is hard for some people to watch a movie and take notes on it at the same time. ... In the movie you got to see what it was like at night when they set up camp. ... It also showed what the generals do at night to prepare for the next day. ...

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In his eulogy for Lincoln on June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Summer called Lincoln's Gettysburg Address a "monumental act", and said that Lincoln was wrong in thinking that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here." ... The first draft was written in Washington, and revised in Gettysburg the night before the dedication, at the home of David Wills. ...

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But each night the sails were set to a different direction, which landed them in America. It is important to note that the time that Cinque and his men arrived in America was years after the American Revolution, which was fought by the Americans against the British. ...

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Moira Ferguson notes that, Mary Prince writes around the taboo against relating sexual experience (even abusive ones) by encoding her abusive sexual experiences in accounts of angry jealous mistresses and a master who forced her to wash him while he was naked.(4) Hence, there was more to Prince's narrative than a mere blind compliance with the Anti-Slavery Society's requirements. ... Ingham forcing the woman to do chores instead of sleep at night (66-7), to Mrs. ... Rauwerda notes that the Woods' nickname for their former slave was a deliberate joke against her m...

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This former solider was in the Angolan armed forces and explained how soldiers burst into his home one night three years ago and took him away. ... Many of them were killed by the rebels or the army when out late at night. ...

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Buchanan said that the Dred Scott decision was proof that the South had no reason for secession, and that the Union "... was intended to be perpetual," but that, "The power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union," was not among the "... enumerated powers granted to Congress." the National Banking Act and the authorization of United States Notes by the Legal Tender Act of 1862. ...

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• Grade Level: High School