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Story of Eli - a giant catfish that lives under the bridge in Satartia, Mississippi in the Yazoo River and what happens when someone tries to catch him.
Author : Daniel E. Brown
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,77 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781977204547
Story of Eli - a giant catfish that lives under the bridge in Satartia, Mississippi in the Yazoo River and what happens when someone tries to catch him.
Author : Sally Jenkins
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0767929462
Covering the same ground as the major motion picture The Free State of Jones, starring Matthew McConaughey, this is the extraordinary true story of the anti-slavery Southern farmer who brought together poor whites, army deserters and runaway slaves to fight the Confederacy in deepest Mississippi. "Moving and powerful." -- The Washington Post. In 1863, after surviving the devastating Battle of Corinth, Newton Knight, a poor farmer from Mississippi, deserted the Confederate Army and began a guerrilla battle against it. A pro-Union sympathizer in the deep South who refused to fight a rich man’s war for slavery and cotton, for two years he and other residents of Jones County engaged in an insurrection that would have repercussions far beyond the scope of the Civil War. In this dramatic account of an almost forgotten chapter of American history, Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer upend the traditional myth of the Confederacy as a heroic and unified Lost Cause, revealing the fractures within the South.
Author : Larry Schweikart
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1350 pages
File Size : 34,45 MB
Release : 2004-12-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1101217782
For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history.
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Publisher :
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Antigua
ISBN :
Author : Warren Daniel Crandall
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781015671942
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 1886
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1504024206
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian looks at the complex, controversial Union commander who ensured the Confederacy’s downfall in the Civil War. In this New York Times bestseller, preeminent Civil War historian Bruce Catton narrows his focus on commander Ulysses S. Grant, whose bold tactics and relentless dedication to the Union ultimately ensured a Northern victory in the nation’s bloodiest conflict. While a succession of Union generals—from McClellan to Burnside to Hooker to Meade—were losing battles and sacrificing troops due to ego, egregious errors, and incompetence, an unassuming Federal Army commander was excelling in the Western theater of operations. Though unskilled in military power politics and disregarded by his peers, Colonel Grant, commander of the Twenty-First Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was proving to be an unstoppable force. He won victory after victory at Belmont, Fort Henry, and Fort Donelson, while brilliantly avoiding near-catastrophe and ultimately triumphing at Shiloh. And Grant’s bold maneuvers at Vicksburg would cost the Confederacy its invaluable lifeline: the Mississippi River. But destiny and President Lincoln had even loftier plans for Grant, placing nothing less than the future of an entire nation in the capable hands of the North’s most valuable military leader. Based in large part on military communiqués, personal eyewitness accounts, and Grant’s own writings, Catton’s extraordinary history offers readers an insightful look at arguably the most innovative Civil War battlefield strategist, unmatched by even the South’s legendary Robert E. Lee.
Author : William Harden
Publisher :
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1913
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Levi Coffin
Publisher :
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Fugitive slaves
ISBN :
Author : J. a. (John Augustus) B. 1833 Spalding
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781362954538
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