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Twenty one letters written by Grimes during his tenure as Iowa governor and U.S. senator, along with a petition.
Author : James Wilson Grimes
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1848
Category : Governors
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Twenty one letters written by Grimes during his tenure as Iowa governor and U.S. senator, along with a petition.
Author : Mrs. James W. Grimes
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Page : pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
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Author : William Salter
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Burlington (Iowa)
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Author : William Salter
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 1876
Category : Iowa
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Author : James Hall
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Geology
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Hall seeks the aid and influence of Grimes to obtain more financial backing for a geological survey of Iowa. During the Civil War he urges Grimes to deploy Indian troops against the South.
Author : Lowell J. Soike
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803271891
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation’s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and territories west of the Mississippi River. Busy in the Cause explores the role of the Midwest in shaping national politics concerning slavery in the years leading up to the Civil War. In 1856 Iowa aided parties of abolitionists desperate to reach Kansas Territory to vote against the expansion of slavery, and evangelical Iowans assisted runaway slaves through Underground Railroad routes in Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Lowell J. Soike’s detailed and entertaining narrative illuminates Iowa’s role in the stirring western events that formed the prelude to the Civil War.
Author : Salmon Portland Chase
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873385084
Salmon P. Chase first gained prominence during the 1840s and 50s as a leader in the anti-slavery movement and as a founder of the Liberty, Free-Soil and Republican parties, before becoming a Senator. This book sets out his correspondence with many prominent political figures of the day.
Author : Michael Burlingame
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 2028 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801889936
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce current understanding of America's sixteenth president. Volume 1 covers Lincoln's early childhood, his experiences as a farm boy in Indiana and Illinois, his legal training, and the political ambition that led to a term in Congress in the 1840s. In volume 2, Burlingame examines Lincoln's life during his presidency and the Civil War, narrating in fascinating detail the crisis over Fort Sumter and Lincoln's own battles with relentless office seekers, hostile newspaper editors, and incompetent field commanders. Burlingame also offers new interpretations of Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd and the untimely deaths of two sons to disease. But through it all—his difficult childhood, his contentious political career, a fratricidal war, and tragic personal losses—Lincoln preserved a keen sense of humor and acquired a psychological maturity that proved to be the North's most valuable asset in winning the Civil War. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this landmark publication establishes Burlingame as the most assiduous Lincoln biographer of recent memory and brings Lincoln alive to modern readers as never before.
Author : James M. McPherson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0807835889
A book with 23 illustrations, 19 maps, notes, a bibliography and an index offers a sweeping history of the Civil War navies in action.
Author : United States. War Department
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Page : 962 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Confederate States of America
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Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.