YankeeScarlett's breath came back to her as sud-denly and painfully as after a blow in the stomach. A Yankee, a Yankee with a long pistol on his hip! And she was alone in the house with three sick girls and the babies ! As he lounged up the walk, hand on hol-ster, beady ...
The Civil War《美国内战(1990)》第一季第三集完整中英文对照剧本.docx,列兵艾德温.坦尼森,在莫尔文高地战役中阵亡, Private Edwin Tennison, killed in action at Malvern Hill, 那是1862年7月1日。 July 1, 1862. 美国内战期间,摄影师们到处跟随着军队, During the
The General Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender 25 votes One of the most revered comedies of the silent era, this film finds hapless Southern railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) facing off against Union soldiers during the American Civil War. When Johnny's fiancée, Annabelle Le...
May 7— General William T. Sherman (USA) started his campaign to capture the city of Atlanta. May 5— The Battle of the Wilderness started. It was the 5th bloodiest battle of the war, with an estimated 27,000 casualties. May 8— The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House started. It was...
LIBRARY OF ST. GREGORY'S UNIVERSITY; THANKS TO ALEV AKMAN. Scanned by Dianne Bean. CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR A CHRONICLE OF THE BLUE AND THE GRAY BY WILLIAM WOOD PREFACE Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and
On June 4, President Lyndon Johnson addressed the graduating class of Howard University, the historically black Washington institution named for Civil War General O. O. Howard. The President said recent “tumbling down” of barriers to African American freedom was a beginning, not an end. Freedom...
Enter again General Butler, who happened to be in Baltimore at the time. The general took some of the guns to Petersburg, and Butler actually fired the Gatling personally. While it worked well, it did not quite generate “consternation and slaughter” among the Rebels as Gatling exuberantly ha...
24– Union Major General Benjamin Butler does not send three runaway slaves back to their owner, a Confederate colonel, and he declares the runaways to be “contraband of war.” Now the Union lines mean freedom, and hundreds of thousands of slaves will cross to Union lines during the Civil...
Senator Butler was not present during the speech. Congressman Preston Brooks, Butler’s cousin, took offense, and on May 22nd Brooks severely injured by repeatedly caning Sumner on the head . It is said the incident further polarized the United States in the run-up to the Civil War. In ...
GENERAL JOHN A. RAWLINS. GENERAL JOHN A. RAWLINS, late Secretary of War, died on the afternoon of September 6. The loss to the country will not be easily repaired; that sustained by the President is totally irreparable, for the latter has not only been deprived of a faithful servant, but...