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Constitution of The Confederate States of America We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent character, in order to form a permanent federal government, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves ...

The American Civil War Chronology Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Compiled by Bennie J. McRae, Jr. 1860 November 6 - Abraham Lincoln elected President of the United States. December 14 - A call issued in Georgia for a convention to deliberate on a Southern Confederacy. December 20 - South Carolina s...

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Laying Of The Atlantic CableAuthor: Field, Cyrus W.Laying Of The Atlantic Cable1866Twenty-two years after the completion of the first telegraph line -between Washington and Baltimore, in 1844 - came the greatest triumph in thehistory of telegraphy. The first successful laying of an ocean telegraph, ...

World War One, Flanders Field In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now ...

The American Civil War, Frederick Douglass Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002One of the most influential Americans of the 19th century, Frederick Douglass worked tirelessly for the freedom of all Americans. He was amongst the first to speak out in favor of Woman's rights. Yet, few people today are aware...

Unforgotten Sons of God They did not know it themselves--those boys of ours whose remembered faces in every home should be cherished symbols of the true, for life or death--what were their lofty deeds of body, mind, heart, soul, on that tremendous day. Unknown--but kept! The earth itself shall be i...

Mo Dec 28 1862General Hospital New house of Refuge Ward H, St Louis Dear parentsI resume my pen once more for the purpose of writeing you a few lines my health isimproveing very fast I think considering I am entirely over the measles coug & Ithink about over the measles I havent gained my streng...

A History of Ancient Greece Spartans and Thermopylae Rollin's Ancient History: History Of The Persians And Grecians Author: Rollin, Charles Go Stranger and to Sparta Tell Faithful to Her Laws, Here, We Fell Amongst the greatest and most loyal soldiers in human history where the Spartans. Never was...

Mexican Mythology Preliminary View Of The Aztec Civilization.Author: Prescott, William H. One of the most important duties of the priesthood was that of education,to which certain buildings were appropriated within the enclosure of theprincipal temple. Here the youth of both sexes, of the higher and...

The Reforms of Urukagina "He established freedom." While Greek political experience was so rich and varied that it has been said with pardonable exaggeration that the Greeks "invented politics," that of ancient Mesopotamia is commonly said to have been limited to an unvarying despotism that was to...

History of the 101st Airborne Division World War Two "Rendezvous with Destiny" The 101st Airborne Division was activated August 16, 1942 at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana and placed under the command of Major General William C. Lee. At the activation ceremony, MG Lee observed, "The 101st...has no history...