United States Civil War,War between the States battle of Atlanta,Atlanta- a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it; 1864 Battle of Bull Run,Bull Run- either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confe...
Letter"on the outside of the envelope. Confederate soldiers never had such a luxury. Shortages of paper, stamps, and even writing utensils in the South became acute as the war progressed and it was often left up to the soldiers to find writing paper, including stationary taken from Union ...
…jury nullification would go on to be used in several important cases in American history. It was used when jurors refused to convict those charged with violating the Fugitive Slave Act and it was also responsible for bringing justice to Vietnam War protesters in the case of United States v...
John Ellis Wool, 85, died at his home in Troy, New York on November 10, 1869. Major-General Wool was a veteran of three major North American wars. After volunteering for the War of 1812 he made the U.S. Army his career for the rest of his career. He was wounded during the 1812...
Judge Barbara Crabb issued a motion of summary judgment for the paintiffs, stating that Article XIII of the Wisconsin Constitution "violates planitiffs' fundamental right to marry and their right to equal protection of laws under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution." ...
which went into effect on January 1, 1863, was a decisive moment in the relationship of Douglass and Lincoln. Once having been issued, the slavery system was doomed. Douglass had persuaded Lincoln to make the pronouncement, and once having done so, the course of the war and the future of...
I found a working copy of the mod on the internet, and from there, I began working to completely revamp the mod as best as I could, to make it look and feel a bit more in line with the civil war time period, and fix a lot of the old problems the mod had. Not everything is ...
civil war. (Of course, we know that it's impossible to do anything of the sort.) So in 1966 Mao initiated Great Cultural Revolution, to repair the situation, and formed the Red Guards to implement the assault on dissidents. The Red Guards, mostly younger students, soon brought the ...
The Anglo-Irish Treaty is a 1921 agreement between the United Kingdom and the budding Irish Republic that marked the end of the Irish War of Independence and the beginning of the Irish Free State. The treaty also set the stage for the partition of the 26
Alabama - Civil War, Reconstruction, Legacy: In 1861 Alabama seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America, which established its first capital in Montgomery. The state legislature conscripted soldiers and appropriated several milli