Topic: American Civil War
The small city of Bolivar, TN has a population of just 5,556 and is the county seat for the County of Hardeman, Tennessee. Just 28 miles south and a little west of Jackson, TN, the city of Bolivar can be accessed by ...
The ancestors of the West Texas Native Americans lived in camps perhaps as long as 37,000 years ago. By 1528, when the first Europeans entered the interior of Texas, the area was sparsely settled, but the culture and habitation of the Native ...
Moreover, in the three decades before the American Civil War, shiploads of German, Polish, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, and Irish immigrants made their way from the Eastern Seaboard to Texas. As a result, some churches in Texas still conduct services in Swedish, Czech, ...
As discussed in The U.S. War Department Appoints Commissioners of Indian Affairs, Thomas McKenney was the first Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the office continued to be an important one. Lt. Colonel Ely S. Parker was the first Native American to serve ...
Abraham Lincoln's presidency can best be described as a resolve of purpose and fortitude in keeping the United States together, and while doing so, destroying the evil of slavery.. Lincoln had little in the way of formal education and was practically slef-educated.. ...
Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland honors the site of the bloodiest single day of the American Civil War. Maryland raised three monuments, and one of them is dedicated to Maryland men on both sides. Another individual monument of note is dedicated ...
From beginning to end, the New York Times correspondents wrote riveting firsthand accounts of the battles, political upheavals, and other circumstances facing a conflicted nation. Harold Holzer and Craig Symonds highlight some of these stories- from the war's onset at Fort Sumter ...
Some historians say Jefferson Davis was an ignorant man, that he was narrow-minded, that he could not see beyond the South and his own aristocratic way of life. Jefferson Davis was rooted and grounded to the past, in how he was raised, ...
The United States has officially been producing coin currency since 1792 after passage of The Coinage Act. This legislation helped create the first mint building in Philadelphia that according to the US Mint website (www.usmint.gov) minted "11,178 copper cents, which were delivered ...
One of the keys (perhaps a minor key but still a key) to the Army of the Potomac's success at the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863, was the little-known colonel of the 20th Maine, a former academic from Bowdoin College named ...
