Topic: American Civil War
The original Zouaves were a fair-haired, blue-eyed Berber people of the Algerian deserts called Zouaoua or Zawia. Elmer E. Ellsworth popularized the Zouave drill and uniform in the United States with a Chicago drill team in 1860. Ellsworth was the first Union ...
You seem to identify the Dred Scott decision [which declared that all black Americans -regardless of whether or not they were slaves-- were not protected by the constitution as citizens] as the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back on the road ...
The received wisdom on the Civil War is that the concurrent Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg in the first days of July 1863 broke the back of the Confederate armies and rendered a Union victory inevitable. Fort Stevens, a few short miles ...
20 Years Ago Dream weaver On Christmas Day 1990, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, 35, demonstrates the workings of his new creation, the World Wide Web, over the Internet. 120 Years Ago Melee Massacre As U.S. troops attempt to disarm a band ...
The submarine collided with the Navy's USS New Orleans on March 20 , 2009 , in the Strait of Hormuz . U.S. Submarine, Naval Ship Collide in Hormuz Strait (March 20, 2009) CNN: U.S. Navy vessels collide near Iran (March 20, 2009) ...
During the 2008 Vice Presidential debate , Governor Sarah Palin evidently mistook the last name of U.S. Army General David McKiernan for McClellan. "General McClellan" may refer to George B. McClellan, a Civil War general who died in 1881 . (October 3, ...
It is in the central part of the state on the Sangamon River, 170 miles (275 km) southwest of Chicago. Decatur has corn and soybean processing plants and produces construction equipment, tires, castings, machinery, and plumbing equipment.. Decatur was the first Illinois ...
In 1854 Samuel Edison became the lighthouse keeper and carpenter on the Fort Gratiot military post near Port Huron, Mich., where the family lived in a substantial home. In 1859 Edison quit school and began working as a trainboy on the railroad ...
In November 1862, Confederate armies fell back after unsuccessful advances into Maryland and Kentucky. Lincoln had been pressured by politicians and people from virtually all sides to make a move due to McClellan's constant slowness and reluctance to attack the Confederates in ...
A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article in the January 2009 issue about the mystique of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. As suggested quite correctly hy Mr. Fornieri on page 12, though, Lincoln did preserve the Union because ...
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