Author: Andrew Jackson AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Diary of Randal William McGavock, 1852-1862
Author: Andrew Jackson AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Diary of Randal William McGavock, 1852-1862
Author: Jack AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Civil War Prisons
Author: William Best HesseltinePublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873381291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
"The articles in this book carefully consider the passionate and partisan documents of the era in order to arrive at a clear, dispassionate understanding of the prisons North and South, how they were administered, and what life for the captured soldiers was like" - from back cover.
Contribution to Education
Author: Civil War History
Author: Southern Literary Culture
Author: Marion C. MichaelPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Contributions to Education
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Andrew Jackson Donelson
Author: Richard Douglas SpencePublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826504000
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
This richly detailed biography of Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) sheds new light on the political and personal life of this nephew and namesake of Andrew Jackson. A scion of a pioneering Tennessee family, Donelson was a valued assistant and trusted confidant of the man who defined the Age of Jackson. One of those central but background figures of history, Donelson had a knack for being where important events were happening and knew many of the great figures of the age. As his uncle's secretary, he weathered Old Hickory's tumultuous presidency, including the notorious "Petticoat War." Building his own political career, he served as US chargé d'affaires to the Republic of Texas, where he struggled against an enigmatic President Sam Houston, British and French intrigues, and the threat of war by Mexico, to achieve annexation. As minister to Prussia, Donelson enjoyed a ringside seat to the revolutions of 1848 and the first attempts at German unification. A firm Unionist in the mold of his uncle, Donelson denounced the secessionists at the Nashville Convention of 1850. He attempted as editor of the Washington Union to reunite the Democratic party, and, when he failed, he was nominated as Millard Fillmore's vice-presidential running mate on the Know-Nothing party ticket in 1856. He lived to see the Civil War wreck the Union he loved, devastate his farms, and take the lives of two of his sons.
United States Local Histories in the Library of Congress: Middle West, Alaska, Hawaii
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
Book Description