A Proud History some of the odds and ends that made camp life more pleasant than were infantrymen, At the beginning of the war and in its first flush of enthusiasm, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/3501/aproud.htm
Extractions: Re-enactment organizations take on the names and military designations of companies and regiments which were active during the War for Southern Independence. Each company or regiment is independent of the others, and has its own rules and membership requirements. You will find that all branches of the armed services of the period are represented by re-enactment groups. Our use of the name "The Washington Artillery" is by proprietary trademark and permission of the active battalion of the same name. Several founding members of our organization own the service-mark and trademark rights to both the name of and the emblem for The Washington Artillery. As is the case with many re-enactors, we "galvanize." That is, we will portray either Confederate or Federal artillerymen for any given re-enactment. We are The Washington Artillery when we portray a Confederate artillery company, and the 6th Massachusetts Light Artillery when we portray a Federal artillery company. As a point of historical fact, The Washington Artillery, organized in New Orleans as a state militia unit in 1838, did not see action in Louisiana. We took the name of the 6th Massachusetts Light Artillery, a Federal company which did fight in Louisiana, in order to have a further historical connection to Louisiana by representing a unit which fought here. Both The Washington Artillery and the 6th Massachusetts Light Artillery were light artillery batteries. Light artillery batteries were, from their founding, intended to use cannons which could be moved readily with a team of horses or mules, in contrast with the enormous cannons used for coastal defense. The artillerymen of a light artillery company were not necessarily mounted, in contrast with artillerymen in mounted artillery companies, but marched when they had to and rode on the caissons and wagons when they could. Members of the artillery were more apt to carry along some of the odds and ends that made camp life more pleasant than were infantrymen, for artillerymen did not have to carry everything they owned on their backs; whatever "luxuries" they could convince the teamsters to carry along on the wagons and caissons went with the battery.
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Extractions: Home Subscribe Renew Shop ... Book Reviews Search tod('pod'); onClick="return true" onMouseOver="document.images.imageDaily3.src='/dailypicture_button.gif'" onMouseOut="document.images.imageDaily3.src='/dailypicture_button.gif'"> tod('tih'); onClick="return true" onMouseOver="document.images.imageDaily2.src='/dailytoday_button.gif'" onMouseOut="document.images.imageDaily2.src='/dailytoday_button.gif'"> In Our Magazines America's Civil War American History Aviation History British Heritage ... World War II Teenager Patience Loader watched the large chunks of ice float down the freezing North Platte River in the fall of 1856. There was no other choice; James Martin, captain of their company of Mormon emigrants, said that they had to ford the river at Last Crossing. The cold October wind made unbearable the task of pushing and dragging the hand-drawn carts across. Patience, her sister and mother had no change of clothes, and there would be no time to stop and dry their drenched and freezing garments until they stopped for the night, many more miles and hours away. Exhibiting the great virtue her name symbolized, Patience and her family entered the icy flow. Later, she recorded her experience:
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Registration - Los Angeles Times Spotting odds and ends in Athens. By Beverly Beyette, Times Staff Writer Built at the local foundry in 1863 as a civil war superweapon, http://www.latimes.com/travel/printedition/la-tr-bestofathens15jun15,1,631608.st
Extractions: Join our Mailing List! Enter your e-mail address Bureau of Natural and Cultural Resources Restoration of Cultural and Historic Resources Back to BNCR Homepage Though the effects of time have deteriorated some of our historic structures, the concerted effort of concerned citizens, historic preservationists and park professionals has assured that many of these resources will be around for decades to come. Below are just a few examples. Fort Clinch Historic State Park Fort Clinch - Fernandina Beach, Florida Historic Fort Clinch, circa 1850, located on Floridas northeast coast at the tip of Amelia Island at Fort Clinch State Park, is perhaps the finest remaining example of third system forts remaining in the U.S. Severe erosion on the shore surrounding Fort Clinch had threatened this remarkable structure for many years. The east side of the fort was in danger of collapse into the St. Marys Inlet, particularly during storm events. In 1998, the Florida Park Service, with the assistance of the parks support group Friends of Fort Clinch, secured a $2 Million grant through Florida DEPs Division of Beaches and Coastal Systems to develop and construct a solution. A series of T shaped finger groins were completed in May of 1999 providing unprecedented protection from the erosive effects of the Atlantic Ocean.
AHA Information: Henry Adams Presidential Address (1894) would transform these odds and ends of philosophy into one selfevident, During the civil war he served as secretary to the ambassador in London http://www.historians.org/info/AHA_History/hbadams.htm
Extractions: President of the Association, 1894 Delivered by letter from Guadaj-la-jara, dated December 12, 1894 in lieu of the annual address of the president of the American Historical Association. Published in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, Annual Report of the American Historical Association , 1894, pp.17-23 More about Henry Adams Biography Extended Bibliography Books by Henry Adams History of the United States of America During the Administrations of James Madison (Library of America) Democracy The War of 1812 The Education of Henry Adams (Oxford World's Classics) ... Henry Adams : Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams (Library of America) Find Other Presidential Addresses Find by Year Dear Sir: I regret this fault the more because I would have liked to be of service, and perhaps there is service that might be usefully performed. Even the effort to hold together the persons interested in history is worth making. That we should ever act on public opinion with the weight of one compact and one energetic conviction is hardly to be expected, but that one day or another we shall be compelled to act individually or in groups I can not doubt. With more anxiety than confidence, I should have liked to do something, however trifling, to hold the association together and unite it on some common ground, with a full understanding of the course which history seems destined to take and with a good-natured willingness to accept or reject the result, but in any case not to quarrel over it.
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Extractions: (http://tacnet.missouri.org/hcl/history.html) Things to Think About: Clinton Daily Democrat destroyed almost 50 years of back issues of that paper.) And some information was never written down and was lost when those who took part in the events died. Even when records have survived, they may often be difficult to access. Computers and the Internet are relatively recent developments in the long histories of towns and regions even in the United States, and much material is still in paper form. It may be safely stored at a courthouse, museum or library, or it may be sitting in someone's attic or storeroom. Its owner may understand its value, or may not ever realize what they have or that it might be of any significant historic interest. As a result, frequently the Internet can only serve as a pointer to the vast mass of material that still remains in non-electronic form. Getting down to the details often requires accessing material via inter library loan or even by actual visit to the nearest courthouse, library or archive that holds the material. That being said, there is still a vast amount of material on the Internet and the volume grows steadily every day. Important Sources of Local History Information: US GenWeb and other Genealogy pages: The US GenWeb project has a page for every county in the United States. Although the overall focus of the project is on genealogy, there is often a great deal of historical material included in the pages. Usually the county page also has information about local historical societies, libraries, and museum. Other genealogy sites may also provide useful historical information.
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Global Exchange : History.html Despite the odds, the Mayans of Guatemala survived and maintained their The civil war continued for more than thirty five years, the final peace accords http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/guatemala/history.html
Extractions: Guatemala: A Brief History The Mayans of Guatemala and the surrounding regions had one of the most advanced civilizations of the ancient world. Their cities flourished across Central America, complete with remarkable pyramids, temples, observatories and libraries, and their scholars produced works of literature, philosophy, art and architecture. Particularly skilled in mathematics and astronomy, Mayan scientists developed a calendar more precise than that used by NASA even today. With the invasion of the Spanish Conquistadors in the early 1500s, the world of the Mayans, like all of the other Indigenous societies in the western hemisphere, came to a fiery and brutal end. Although medieval Europe was in many ways far less developed, the Conquistadors arrived with enormous military advantages: specifically, gun powder, steel swords, and horses. The Mayans fought valiantly on foot, with their obsidian spears and leather shields, but they suffered devastating losses. Within a few years, they had become slaves in their own homeland, deprived of their lands, their rights, and any political or social representation of any kind. Their libraries and cities were burned and sacked, and their religion and culture were banned. Throughout the hemisphere war, disease and slavery wiped out nearly 90% of the Indigenous population within a century. The Mayans have not accepted their fate lightly. A study of their history shows that in every generation since the invasion of the Spaniards, the Mayans have risen up in rebellion, armed only with rocks and machetes. Every generation, these slave revolts have been quickly crushed by the well armed forces of the oligarchy.
Tingley's Tidbits -- Miscellaneous Wolfean Odds 'n Ends Our history What We Do 454 W. 35th St. NY Times Maps the Brownstone Following the end of World war I, when exports of German beer could resume and http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/tidbits/tidbits.htm
Extractions: CONTACT IS NOT A Verb (" Verbing the Noun ") and other of Mr. Wolfe's English language issues (" Gambit Open Letter to Nero Wolfe "). Read Greg Smith's entertaining and etymologically correct articles by clicking these links. Glenn Dixon's three terrific Wolfe pastiches can be downloaded free.
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Odds & Ends, October 1997 revolution was immediately followed by civil war and dictatorship. I hopeyou ve enjoyed this issue of odds ends. Let me know what you think. http://home.eznet.net/~dminor/O&E9710.html
Extractions: A Newsletter of Eagles Byte Historical Research October 1997 No. 24 In its article on Argentina the Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations states, "During the colonial period, there was little interest in Argentina." Maybe in the grand schemes of that era relatively little interest was given to the region that would become Latin America's second largest nation. But the nations of Europe weren't ignoring Argentina entirely. Spain obviously had firsthand involvement. Portugal coveted the area. There was at least one Frenchman residing in Buenos Aires. And two courts-martial related to Argentina occupied London courts. Even Haiti had its effect on events. When it overthrew its rulers in 1804, following the example of the United States, France became the second European nation to lose a New World colony. Ordinarily Portugal and Spain would have been concerned over their own colonies, but they had other worries as an ambitious Napoleon Bonaparte occupied the Iberian Peninsula in 1807 and 1808. England would now be concentrating on driving the Corsican out of the Peninsula. Some of their officers had just been practicing their own brand of point-of-a-gun diplomacy on the other side of the Atlantic in 1806 and 1807. And there's also that one Frenchman!
EB Odds Ends His next book, Action at Aquila , a civil war novel, was eclipsed by Mrs.Mitchell Marsh s novel with I hope you ve enjoyed this issue of odds ends. http://home.eznet.net/~dminor/O&E9711.html
Extractions: A Newsletter of Eagles Byte Historical Research Reviewing the massive historical novel Anthony Adverse in 1933, K. D. B., the critic for the Boston Transcript , wrote, "Many characters loom out clear and vivid and convincing," then added the caveat, " . . . Anthony himself never quite takes flesh." And the same might be said for his creator, William Hervey Allen, Jr., better known as Hervey Allen. Somehow the mantle of legend (or even anecdote) that settled over contemporaries like Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald, never fell on Allen's shoulders. There's another similarity between author and character - they were all over the map. Born December 8, 1889, Hervey Allen spent his boyhood in the shadow of the steel mills of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was the inventor of an automatic blast furnace stoker; the family must have been fairly well off. The sources I consulted don't say. We next come across Allen in 1910, when he entered the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. Injured while participating in track, he was given an honorable discharge and went on to study at the University of Pittsburgh, earning his bachelor's degree in 1915. After working for Bell Telephone for a few months he quit to join the Pennsylvania National Guard. Fred G. Miller had founded company G, second regiment United Boys Brigade of America, in Pittsburgh, in 1901. In 1903 it became a Signal Company and on September 12, 1908 it became Company A, Signal Corps, Pennsylvania National Guard. Miller was named its first company commander. Allen joined the Guard in 1916 and was commissioned a second lieutenant. At this time the bandit Poncho Villa began a series of raids across the U. S.-Mexican border and on June 29th Miller's command was posted to the boundary area near El Paso, Texas, where it served until January 18 th of the following year. Allen and his fellow guardsmen found themselves rather bored during this period (that would soon change). It was during this tedium that Allen began to emerge as something of a poet. He began recounting his military experiences in a series of poems, written in a Kiplingesque style, which he sold, in pamphlet form, to fellow soldiers in National Guard camps along the border, under the portmanteau title
March Of The Titans A History Of The White Race To the ends of the Earth Lost White Migrations - Ancient White Our WhiteMen Cutting One Another s Throats - The American civil war and the http://www.stormfront.org/whitehistory/
Extractions: MARCH OF THE TITANS - A HISTORY OF THE WHITE RACE Version 6 - Last updated April 2004 - What's New Cro-Magnon Cheddar Man: circa 7000BC, Spirit Cave Mummy, Nevada, USA, 7000 BC A lapus lazuli blue-eyed statue from Sumeria, 3000 BC The White Queen Nefertiti, Egypt, 1325 BC. The complete and comprehensive history of the White Race, spanning 350 centuries of tumultuous events. This is their incredible story - of vast visions, empires, achievements, triumphs against staggering odds, reckless blunders, crushing defeats and stupendous struggles. Tocharian Mummy, China, 1500 BC Detail from amphora, Classical Greece, 500BC Octavian Augustus, Roman Emperor, 45 BC Alexander Nevsky, Russian hero, 1240 AD. Most importantly of all, revealed in this work is the one true cause of the rise and fall of the world's greatest empires - that all civilizations rise and fall according to their racial homogeneity and nothing else - a nation can survive wars, defeats, natural catastrophes, but not racial dissolution. Queen Elizabeth I, England, 1600
Belmont Club Events in Algeria nearly precipitated a civil war in France, caused the fall ofthe 4th Republic and odds and ends Chester is back with a new post abou. http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2005/04/odds-and-ends-chester-is-back-with-new.h
Extractions: @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=5330775"); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/main.css); @import url(http://www.blogger.com/css/navbar/3.css); BlogThis! History and History in the Making Chester is back with a new post about the dramatic repulse of an attack on a Marine outpost in Qusabayah, which is on the Syrian border. He asks why the media doesn't give Marines credit for victories and suggests that asymmetric coverage is the result of high expectations from the USMC. In the same way that only 'dog bites man' is news; he argues that only a Marine defeat will merit front page coverage. BTW, I subscribed to the Keyhole when there is Keyhole data is extremely useful. You can see the actual road to the northeast of the town, which is not exactly coincident with the GIS road. Also, there's an interesting site up on Chinese affairs in general run by Bruce Chang called Naruwan Formosa . His latest post is about France, China and Taiwan. Speaking of Taiwan, there's very little Keyhole data for the island and its environs!
East Feliciana Parish Community Calendar Food, music, sidewalk sales, plants, furniture, odds and ends. Reenactorswill set up camp to show the life of a civil war soldier during winter, http://www.felicianatourism.org/calendar.htm
Six Red Months In Russia: Ch 28 by Louise Bryant. CHAPTER XXVIII odds AND ends OF REVOLUTION civil war andthe last German invasions, of course, have temporarily stopped all this http://www.marxists.org/archive/bryant/works/russia/ch28.htm
Extractions: ODDS AND ENDS OF REVOLUTION THERE were many little incidents I came across in Russia that while of themselves are of no particular importance, yet gathered together may give the reader more atmosphere than a deliberate attempt at a picture. Now that I am home again and must depend for information largely on the reports sent out by Berlin or Vienna and meant to prejudice us against Russia, or by those of my colleagues who make it a business to write sensational stories, it seems but fair that I should tell of my own experiences and those of my friends in this supposed violent Russia. It is a great pity that all our correspondents are not as well balanced and as intelligent as Mr. Arthur Ransome, whose despatches appear in the London Daily News, New York Times, and the New Republic. Mr. Ransome is an Englishman who has lived in Russia for a number of years and knows his ground well, he writes as an observer and not for or against any party in power, and that seems to me the only reasonable conduct for a reporter. No more clearheaded comment on the political situation in Russia has been publicly made than that which appeared in his "Letter to the American People" in which he said, "Remember any non-Soviet government in Russia would be welcomed by Germany and, reciprocally, could not but regard Germany as its protector. Remember that the revolutionary movement in Eastern Europe, no less than in the American and British navies, is an integral part of the Allied blocade of the Central Empires."
Odds And Ends odds and ends. here s looking at you America from the Great Depression toWorld war II Blackand-White Photographs from the FSA-OWI, http://www.virginiaplaces.org/1special.html
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Extractions: by Camille Corte The famed 73rd U. S. C. T. was first organized in the Confederate service by Governor Moore of Louisiana as the 1st Louisiana Native Guards in May of 1861. After the surrender of New Orleans they offered themselves to the Union. General Butler accepted them and mustered the regiment into the service on September 27, 1862. The 73rd became the first Colored regiment to be mustered into the Union Army. It retained its designation as the 1st Louisiana Native Guards until after the siege of Port Hudson where it won great distinction in that desperate assault of May 27, 1863. In April 1864, the Regiment's name was transferred to the 73rd U.S.C.T. Upon assembling the troops for the completion of the Mobile Campaign in Pensacola, Hawkins' U.S.C.T. Division of three Brigades contained the 73rd. General Frederick Steele's provisional corps consisted of Hawkins' Division, Lucas' Cavalry Brigade, and General C. C. Andrews Second Division of the Thirteenth Corps. Steele's column set out on March 20th traveling due north towards Pollard and turning west towards Blakeley, arriving there on April 1. At daybreak on the second, Hawkins' Division charged forward driving the enemy into their works, becoming the first to invest Fort Blakeley. Andrews' Division arrived the night of April 2, positioned on the left of Hawkins far right flank. On April 3, General Steele applied to General Canby to retain Veatch's Division, formed on the left of Andrews and Garrard's Division of the Sixteenth Corps which positioned itself to the far left flank.
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