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Author : George William Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
ISBN : WISC:89094361441
Author : John Lockwood,Charles Lockwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0199832005
On April 14, 1861, following the surrender of Fort Sumter, Washington was "put into the condition of a siege," declared Abraham Lincoln. Located sixty miles south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the nation's capital was surrounded by the slave states of Maryland and Virginia. With no fortifications and only a handful of trained soldiers, Washington was an ideal target for the Confederacy. The South echoed with cries of "On to Washington!" and Jefferson Davis's wife sent out cards inviting her friends to a reception at the White House on May 1. Lincoln issued an emergency proclamation on April 15, calling for 75,000 troops to suppress the rebellion and protect the capital. One question now transfixed the nation: whose forces would reach Washington first-Northern defenders or Southern attackers? For 12 days, the city's fate hung in the balance. Washington was entirely isolated from the North-without trains, telegraph, or mail. Sandbags were stacked around major landmarks, and the unfinished Capitol was transformed into a barracks, with volunteer troops camping out in the House and Senate chambers. Meanwhile, Maryland secessionists blocked the passage of Union reinforcements trying to reach Washington, and a rumored force of 20,000 Confederate soldiers lay in wait just across the Potomac River. Drawing on firsthand accounts, The Siege of Washington tells this story from the perspective of leading officials, residents trapped inside the city, Confederates plotting to seize it, and Union troops racing to save it, capturing with brilliance and immediacy the precarious first days of the Civil War.
Author : United States. War Department. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1172 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015031840948
Author : George W. Liebmann
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739102338
In his new book, George W. Liebmann discusses the work of six largely forgotten figures: Octavia Hill, William Glyn-Jones, Mary Richmond, George William Brown, Mary Parker Follet, and Bryan Keith-Lucas. Three are British; three American. Some came from affluent backgrounds; some grew up poor. One was barely educated; another spent eleven years at some of the world's more prestigious institutions of higher learning. What united them all was a shared conviction that citizenship involved more than voting, that society consists of more than the marketplace or political institutions, and that professional values are important for shaping a civil discourse. With a sympathetic eye toward the fulfillment of these common aspirations, Liebmann looks at the national health, social work, housing management, and educational initiatives spearheaded by these powerful figures over the past two centuries. This study is a fascinating retort to our cynical age of political disillusionment and an innovative contribution to social and political history.
Author : Michael T. Benson
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421444178
One of the most remarkable education leaders of the late nineteenth century and the creator of the modern American research university finally gets his due. Daniel Coit Gilman, a Yale-trained geographer who first worked as librarian at his alma mater, led a truly remarkable life. He was selected as the third president of the University of California; was elected as the first president of Johns Hopkins University, where he served for twenty-five years; served as one of the original founders of the Association of American Universities; and—at an age when most retired—was hand-picked by Andrew Carnegie to head up his eponymous institution in Washington, DC. In Daniel Coit Gilman and the Birth of the American Research University, Michael T. Benson argues that Gilman's enduring legacy will always be as the father of the modern research university—a uniquely American invention that remains the envy of the entire world. In the past half-century, nothing has been written about Gilman that takes into account his detailed journals, reviews his prodigious correspondence, or considers his broad external board service. This book fills an enormous void in the history of the birth of the "new" American system of higher education, especially as it relates to graduate education. The late 1800s, Benson points out, is one of the most pivotal periods in the development of the American university model; this book reveals that there is no more important figure in shaping that model than Daniel Coit Gilman. Benson focuses on Gilman's time deliberating on, discussing, developing, refining, and eventually implementing the plan that brought the modern research university to life in 1876. He also explains how many university elements that we take for granted—the graduate fellowships, the emphasis on primary investigations and discovery, the funding of the best laboratory and research spaces, the scholarly journals, the university presses, the sprawling health sciences complexes with teaching hospitals—were put in place by Gilman at Johns Hopkins University. Ultimately, the book shows, Gilman and his colleagues forced all institutions to reexamine their own model and to make the requisite changes to adapt, survive, thrive, compete, and contribute.
Author : Military History. Office of the Chief
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009861480
Author : Mary Lee Stubbs,Stanley Russell Connor,United States. Dept. of the Army. Office of Military History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112045904676
Author : Ezra Carman
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611210552
The definitive soldier’s-eye view of the Battle of Antietam—the bloodiest day in American history. A veteran of the Battle of Antietam, Ezra A. Carman served as a colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry. After the horrific fighting of September 17, 1862, he recorded in his diary that he was preparing “a good map of the Antietam battle and a full account of the action.” Unbeknownst to the young officer, the project would become the most significant work of his life. Appointed as the “Historical Expert” to the Antietam Battlefield Board in 1894, Carman solicited accounts from hundreds of veterans, scoured through thousands of letters and maps, and assimilated the material into the hundreds of cast iron tablets that still mark the field today. Carman also wrote an 1,800-page manuscript on the campaign. Although it remained unpublished for more than a century, many historians and students of the war consider it to be the best overall treatment of the campaign ever written. Dr. Thomas G. Clemens, recognized internationally as one of the foremost historians of the Maryland Campaign, has spent more than two decades studying Antietam and editing and richly annotating Carman’s exhaustively written manuscript. The result is The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Carman’s magisterial account published for the first time in two volumes. Jammed with firsthand accounts, personal anecdotes, maps, photos, a biographical dictionary, and a database of veterans’ accounts of the fighting, this long-awaited study will be read and appreciated as battle history at its finest.
Author : H. Leon Greene
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476647951
Before the Civil War, George Proctor Kane had been a businessman, thespian, political appointee, philanthropist and militiaman. During the war, as Baltimore's chief of police, he harbored the divided loyalties familiar to the border states--Southern in his sentiments yet Northern in his allegiances. As the city's top lawman, he sought to reform Baltimore's "Mobtown" image. He ensured that President-elect Lincoln, passing through on the way to his inauguration, was not assassinated. He protected Union troops marching to defend Washington, D.C. He was eventually imprisoned as a Southern sympathizer, denied habeas corpus as his captors transferred him from prison to prison. This book recounts Kane's enigmatic public life before and during the Civil War, his Confederate activities after prison and his return to serve as mayor of Baltimore.
Author : Michael Burlingame
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421410685
Burlingame interprets Lincoln’s private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of his son Willie to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over the enormous human costs of the war.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385359345
Reprint of the original, first published in 1887.
Author : Clement A. Evans
Publisher : The Minerva Group, Inc.
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1410213722
This is one volume in a library of Confederate States history, in twelve volumes, written by distinguished men of the South, and edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia. A generation after the Civil War, the Southern protagonists wanted to tell their story, and in 1899 these twelve volumes appeared under the imprint of the Confederate Publishing Company. The first and last volumes comprise such subjects as the justification of the Southern States in seceding from the Union and the honorable conduct of the war by the Confederate States government; the history of the actions and concessions of the South in the formation of the Union and its policy in securing the territorial dominion of the United States; the civil history of the Confederate States; Confederate naval history; the morale of the armies; the South since the war, and a connected outline of events from the beginning of the struggle to its close. The other ten volumes each treat a separate State with details concerning its peculiar story, its own devotion, its heroes, and its battlefields.
Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Bounties, Military
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063045020
Volumes 1 to 20 are confined to decisions relating to pensions and bounty-land claims. Volumes 21 to 22 contain decisions relating to pensions and civil service retirement claims.
Author : United States. Dept. of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3017017
Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Bounties, Military
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090131327