One Of Morgan S Men

Author : John M. Porter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813140186

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One of Morgan's Men by John M. Porter Pdf

This annotated Civil War memoir provides a detailed account of General Morgan’s famous battles and raids from a Confederate soldier’s perspective. John Marion Porter grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. He was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identified with the Southern cause and quickly enlisted in the Confederate army. He and his lifelong friend Thomas Henry Hines served in the Ninth Kentucky Calvary under John Hunt Morgan, the “Thunderbolt of the Confederacy.” When the war ended, Porter began writing detailed memoirs of his experiences during the war years, including tales of scouting behind enemy lines, sabotaging a Union train, being captured and held as a prisoner of war, and searching for an army to join after his release. Editor Kent Masterson Brown spent several years preparing Porter's memoir for publication, clarifying details and adding annotations to provide historical context. One of Morgan's Men is a fascinating firsthand account of the life of a Confederate soldier.

Author : John Marion Porter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780813129891

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One of Morgan's Men by John Marion Porter Pdf

John Marion Porter (1839--1898) grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. The oldest of Reverend Nathaniel Porter's nine children, he was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identified with the Southern cause and wasted little time enlisting in the Confederate army. He and his lifelong friend Thomas Henry Hines served in the Ninth Kentucky Calvary under John Hunt Morgan, the "Thunderbolt of the Confederacy." When the war ended, Porter and Hines opened a law practice together, but Porter was concerned that the story of his service during the Civil War and his family's history would be lost with the collapse of the Confederacy. In 1872, Porter began writing detailed memoirs of his experiences during the war years, including tales of scouting behind enemy lines, sabotaging a Union train, being captured and held as a prisoner of war, and searching for an army to join after his release. Editor Kent Masterson Brown spent several years preparing Porter's memoir for publication, clarifying details and adding annotations to provide historical context. One of Morgan's Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Kentucky Cavalry is a fascinating firsthand account of the life of a remarkable Confederate soldier. In this unique volume, Porter's insights on Morgan and the Confederacy are available to readers for the first time.

Author : Sallie Rochester Ford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000114580263

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Raids and Romance of Morgan and His Men by Sallie Rochester Ford Pdf

Author : Henry Lane Stone
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 137797426X

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Morgan's Men, a Narrative of Personal Experiences; by Henry Lane Stone Pdf

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Author : Morgan Jerkins
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062666161

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This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins Pdf

From one of the fiercest critics writing today, Morgan Jerkins’ highly-anticipated collection of linked essays interweaves her incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism with her own experiences to confront the very real challenges of being a black woman today—perfect for fans of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, and Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. Morgan Jerkins is only in her twenties, but she has already established herself as an insightful, brutally honest writer who isn’t afraid of tackling tough, controversial subjects. In This Will Be My Undoing, she takes on perhaps one of the most provocative contemporary topics: What does it mean to “be”—to live as, to exist as—a black woman today? This is a book about black women, but it’s necessary reading for all Americans. Doubly disenfranchised by race and gender, often deprived of a place within the mostly white mainstream feminist movement, black women are objectified, silenced, and marginalized with devastating consequences, in ways both obvious and subtle, that are rarely acknowledged in our country’s larger discussion about inequality. In This Will Be My Undoing, Jerkins becomes both narrator and subject to expose the social, cultural, and historical story of black female oppression that influences the black community as well as the white, male-dominated world at large. Whether she’s writing about Sailor Moon; Rachel Dolezal; the stigma of therapy; her complex relationship with her own physical body; the pain of dating when men say they don’t “see color”; being a black visitor in Russia; the specter of “the fast-tailed girl” and the paradox of black female sexuality; or disabled black women in the context of the “Black Girl Magic” movement, Jerkins is compelling and revelatory.

Author : Edison H. Thomas
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813146690

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John Hunt Morgan and His Raiders by Edison H. Thomas Pdf

Whether one things of him as dashing cavalier or shameless horse thief, it is impossible not to regard John Hunt Morgan as a fascinating figure of the Civil War. He collected his Raiders at first from the prominent families of Kentucky, though later the exploits of the group were to attract a less elite class of recruits. Morgan was able to lead these men into the most dangerous adventures by convincing them that the honor of the South was at stake; yet he did not always succeed in appealing to that sense of honor when temptations of easy theft drew the Raiders from military objectives to wanton pillage. In John Hunt Morgan and his Raiders, Edison H. Thomas gives us a balanced view of these controversial men and their raids. In a fast-paced narrative he follows the cavalry unit for the evening the first group set out from Lexington to join the Confederate forces until the morning of Morgan's death in Greeneville, Tennessee. Basil Duke, St. Leger Grenfell, Lightning Ellsworth, and the beautiful Martha Ready all receive their due, and the truly remarkable story of the Raiders' newspaper is told. A special contribution is the insight this account offers into the disruption of rail communications carried out with such enthusiasm by Morgan and his men. Thomas' study of the railroad records of the period has enabled him to present this part of the Raiders' story with rare detail and understanding.

Author : Ron Chernow
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 847 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780802198136

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The House of Morgan by Ron Chernow Pdf

The National Book Award–winning history of American finance by the renowned biographer and author of Hamilton: “A tour de force” (New York Times Book Review). The House of Morgan is a panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan’s empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family’s private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved—a world that included Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Franklin Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, and Winston Churchill. A masterpiece of financial history—it was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century—The House of Morgan is a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.

Author : Edward Thomas
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368921378

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The Happy-go-lucky Morgans by Edward Thomas Pdf

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Author : Nick Hoult,Steve James
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781760874834

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Morgan's Men by Nick Hoult,Steve James Pdf

From English cricket's embarrassing failure at the 2015 World Cup to their heart-stopping victory four years later, Nick Hoult and Steve James vividly describe the team's dramatic journey from abject disappointment to finally lifting the trophy. Morgan's Men reveals how the team became the most aggressive limited-overs side in the world, led by their inspirational captain Eoin Morgan, whose vision and determination to succeed captured the imagination of the nation. Hoult and James follow England's journey from Bangladesh to Barbados, from Melbourne to Manchester, to present the inside story of the team's rebirth. They tell us how players dealt with the Ben Stokes court case, the sacking of Alex Hales for a drugs ban, and reveal the innovative new strategies and tactics that helped them become the best in the world, culminating in a World Cup final that was arguably the greatest one-day match of all time.

Author : WetFeet (Firm)
Publisher : WETFEET, INC.
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Investment banking
ISBN : 9781582078908

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Morgan Stanley by WetFeet (Firm) Pdf

Author : Henry Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : WISC:89082429374

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America's Successful Men of Affairs: The city of New York by Henry Hall Pdf

Author : Elise Lawton Smith,Evelyn De Morgan
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 083863883X

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Evelyn Pickering De Morgan and the Allegorical Body by Elise Lawton Smith,Evelyn De Morgan Pdf

"This study of her work confirms that the idea of progress toward the afterlife is a recurrent motif, arising from a personal involvement in the movement of Spiritualism and paralleling the automatic writing passages in The Result of an Experiment (1909), anonymously published by Evelyn and her husband William De Morgan.".

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Coal trade
ISBN : NYPL:33433107795399

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Coal and Coal Trade Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven H. Gittelman
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-23
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780761858515

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J.P. Morgan and the Transportation Kings by Steven H. Gittelman Pdf

The concept was simple, to link American railroads and global dominance of the seas with a railroad line through China and Russia, enter the back door of Europe, and create new royalty: the Transportation Kings. Vanderbilt, Hill, Morgan, and Harriman all pursued the grand dream. They were America’s industrial princes, poised for their greatest accomplishments, only to find that they had not considered the gauntlet awaiting them in the courts of kings and Kaisers, parliaments and congress. They awoke John Bull and helped precipitate revolution in China. They brought about the building of Lusitania and, in reaction, they owned and built the Titanic. We all know how the disaster story ends; this is how the story came about.

Author : Marie Benedict,Victoria Christopher Murray
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593101551

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The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict,Victoria Christopher Murray Pdf

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Good Morning America* Book Club Pick! Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR! Named a Notable Book of the Year by the Washington Post! “Historical fiction at its best!”* A remarkable novel about J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white in order to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation, from New York Times bestselling authors Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. In her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene is hired by J. P. Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly built Pierpont Morgan Library. Belle becomes a fixture in New York City society and one of the most powerful people in the art and book world, known for her impeccable taste and shrewd negotiating for critical works as she helps create a world-class collection. But Belle has a secret, one she must protect at all costs. She was born not Belle da Costa Greene but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first Black graduate of Harvard and a well-known advocate for equality. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage that lets her pass as white—her complexion is dark because she is African American. The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths she must go to—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.