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Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1893
Author: Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Diocese of Fort Wayne, 1857-September 1907
Author: Herman Joseph AlerdingPublisher:
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Category : Fort Wayne (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Senate documents
Author: Leonidas Polk
Author: Huston HornPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700627502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Leonidas Polk was a graduate of West Point who resigned his commission to enter the Episcopal priesthood as a young man. At first combining parish ministry with cotton farming in Tennessee, Polk subsequently was elected the first bishop of the Louisiana Diocese, whereupon he bought a sugarcane plantation and worked it with several hundred slaves owned by his wife. Then, in the 1850s he was instrumental in the founding of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. When secession led to war he pulled his diocese out of the national church and with other Southern bishops established what they styled the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America. Polk then offered his military services to his friend and former West Point classmate Jefferson Davis and became a major general in the Confederate Army. Polk was one of the more notable, yet controversial, generals of the war. Recognizing his indispensable familiarity with the Mississippi Valley, Confederate president Jefferson Davis commissioned his elevation to a high military position regardless of his lack of prior combat experience. Polk commanded troops in the Battles of Belmont, Shiloh, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Meridian as well as several smaller engagements in Georgia leading up to Atlanta. Polk is remembered for his bitter disagreements with his immediate superior, the likewise-controversial General Braxton Bragg of the Army of Tennessee. In 1864, while serving under the command of General Joseph E. Johnston, Polk was killed by Union cannon fire as he observed General Sherman’s emplacements on the hills outside Atlanta.
The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America
Author: Charles Henry PhillipsPublisher:
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Category : African American Christians
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL. D.
Author: Isaac LanePublisher:
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Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents
Author: United States. Patent OfficePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.
Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. CurranPublisher:
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Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Who's who in America
Author: John W. LeonardPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2504
Book Description
Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.