Tag: civil war
member name: Tammy E.
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April 14, 2008 06:03 PM EDT --
On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate
sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at
Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. The attack came only five . . .
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February 09, 2009 11:50 PM EST --
A Confederate soldier passing through South Carolina on his way home to Texas gave up his life so that another man would not die in his stead. His noble deed lives on in the annals of Newberry, South . . .
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June 24, 2009 04:55 PM EDT --
I will be posting articles about the civil war for anyone that really doesn't know that much about the American Civil War; why it really started, what was going on before the war, what happened during . . .
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August 07, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
The Compromise of 1850 , were five bills that were intended to crush regional bitter conflict. The goal was to handle the spread of slavery into territories in order to keep the northern and southern . . .
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January 11, 2009 01:01 PM EST --
During June 2007, I visited a fort called Fort Wool. I have visited army forts before but this one is really out of the ordinary. First of all it is on an island that was man-made. The only way to get . . .
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February 09, 2009 11:47 PM EST --
In Use by 1850
Slang:
absquatulate, verb, meaning to abscond, by 1830
cracking, adj, great, by 1830 (adv use by 1870)
doggone, v, (Am) by 1830 (adj/adv use by 1855, doggoned by 1870) kerfuffle, . . .
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July 09, 2009 12:56 PM EDT --
As the North and South drew further and further apart in society and economically, the political separation was growing wider and wider.
Slavery increased the severity of the regional and economic . . .
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October 20, 2009 02:06 PM EDT --
Under the Missouri compromise, slavery was prohibited in land north of 36 degree, 30 and on May 30, 1854 the Kansas-Nebraska Act was finally passed. Four attempts to organize this territory had already . . .
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October 20, 2009 12:35 PM EDT --
Robert Hicks’s new novel, A Separate Country is a novel about Confederate General John Bell Hood’s life after the Civil War. General Hood was a strong and tough General. The decisions . . .
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April 09, 2008 11:42 AM EDT --
Hello all you civil war buffs. I just joined and would like to interduce you to my American Civil War Stories blog. When you have a minute please go to http://civilwarstories.blogspot.com and check out . . .
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April 09, 2008 12:06 PM EDT --
If you combine all the United States wars from the beginning of our great country up to the Civil War, skipping over the Civil War, and adding all the rest of the wars to today; the number of killed and . . .
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