... was foiled by Confederate commander Robert E. Lee. In September, however, Lee's Antietam campaign was checked by McClellan, and Lincoln drafted the Emancipation Proclamation. The year ended with a union defeat on December 13th at Fredericksburg, and spring brought a resounding confederate victory, May 2nd through fourth, 1863 at Chancellorsville, where Lee lost his ablest general, General Stonewall Jackson. Confederate fortunes turned when Lee ... was abolished. The seceded states were readmitted to the union after Reconstruction. One of the most disturbing aspects of the war was not on...

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... the federal government cannot legally deny. The supporters of states' rights held that the national government was a league of independent states, any of which had the right to secede. In December 1860, South Carolina became the first state to secede. Five other states - Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana - followed in January 1861. In February, representatives from the six states met ... fired on Fort Sumter early on the morning of April 12, 1861, inaugurating four years of internecine warfare, many Negroes were eager to wear the Union blue. They found their services...

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... 1834, immigrated to the United States as a teenager, and married another Irishman, Rody Looby, in Waddington, NY 1854. They had three sons, John (1860), William (1866), and Richard (1870). In December 1863 Rody enlisted in the 14th NY Heavy Artillery at Potsdam and served for several months before he was wounded in the Battle of Petersburg in July 1864. When Ellon ... . During the Battle of Shiloh, Palmer was sent to Corinth MS, where she worked day and night in a church and under the trees, administering chloroform and binding arteries, among other services, the most desperately wounded...

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... underprivileged children, or comforting a dying soldier, Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross, was a true historical heroine. Clarissa Harlowe Barton was brought into this world in Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25, 1821 (Sands 4).1 She was the daughter of Captain Stephen and Sally Stone Barton (Hamilton 17, 18).2 Clara was raised in a very charitable household. When she became older, her mother ... and father urged her to become absorbed in different types of community services such as helping youth with their schoolwork, and nurturing local neighbors with small pox ("The Biog...

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... Williams into a bar and laid him on a table, where Williams soon died. This was possibly the last man that Hickok ever killed. In December 1871, the city council of Abeline decided that they no longer needed the violent services of Wild Bill in their county, so he was discharged. He drifted to Colorado and then to Kansas City, where he lost most ... ...

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... . Doubting Johnson's program and concerned for the safety of the freedmen, the Republican Congress opposed the president's efforts and sought their own plan for reordering the South. Upon meeting in December of 1865, the body refused to seat any of the representatives from the seceded states. All maters pertaining to the restoration of the South were to be reserved for the ... rebel states soon became a reality and by 1868 all but three had been acknowledged. The new state constitutions were improved from their predecessors. States now assumed responsibility for many social services that...

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... he new were his loyalties lie, the south. General Lee then resigned his whole commission. Lee then went to the president of the Confederate States of America and offered his services. Jefferson Davis was glad to accept Lee and gave him a position as a General. On June 1, 1862 Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Virginia in the Confederate capital of ... (September 17, 1862). Lee was forced to call it a draw and neither side one. Lee then withdrew back to Virginia. In Virginia he was yet once again victorious in Fredericksburg (December 1862). This battle took heavy tolls on the ...

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... the end on July 17,1887. Her wishes were to be buried at Mountain Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her life of purpose was over. Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest child of Stephen Barton, a farmer and state legislator who had served in the Revolution under General Anthony Wayne. Well educated ... of the Red Cross; the powerful U.S. Sanitary Commission had been unable to obtain it. But before Barton could turn to the task, the Franco-Prussian War began. She offered her services to the Grand Duchess of Baden in adm...

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... previously manufactured, standard parts rather than with costly custom-made ones. This increased the number of weapons that the union could manufacture during the Civil War. 1813 Hartford Convention- In December 1814, a group of Federalists met in Hartford, Connecticut, to protest the War of 1812 and propose several constitutional amendments, including changes to protect the commercial interests of New England. These ... a free state and a free territory with his master. 1857 Crash of 1857- A boom in the American economy ended in the Panic of 1857. When grain prices fell, demand for rai...

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... 1865, before the war's end, three developments hinted at the depth of this emerging Northern commitment. In January Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which was ratified in December of the same year. The 13th Amendment expanded the scope of the Emancipation Proclamation by abolishing slavery throughout the United States. Also in January, General William T. Sherman issued Special Field ... , Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau. Designed as a relief agency for needy refugees, it provided food, clothing, and fuel for both blacks and wh...

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Clarissa Harlowe Barton, most widely, known as Clara, was born on December 25, 1821. She was the youngest of five children in her middle-class family. She was home-schooled until the age of 15, when she decided to begin teaching. Her ... be missing in action. Throughout different interviews, she was able to determine where most of the men were at the time. By this time she had performed most of the services that would later be associated with the American Red Cross, which she founded in 1881. In 1904 she resigned as head of that organization, retiring to her home, where she ... ...

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... and southwest Monsoons and Tangambilis, which are transitional periods. There are two wet seasons from March to May and October to November, which alternate with two dry seasons, one from December to March, which is dominated by hot, dusty winds and then from June to August, which is Somalia's hottest season. Most of the country has an average rainfall of less ... . The Civil War of 1991, all but destroyed the communication system and broadcasting, since 1991, has been far and few between. Recently though, private companies are now beginning to offer services in most of the major cities ...

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... North (the communist Vietcong) and the South (the capitalist French and USA). 1965. With Australia allied to America, it began sending in conscripts (young men forced to join the armed services) and thousands of troops to Saigon to assist the U.S.A. The Australian Government setup a propaganda campaign that the Vietnam war was a simple struggle between freedom and communism, and that free nations ... any closer to winning the war. In 1969, America began reducing the number of troops it was sending over and Australia did the same. It was on the 27th of December 1972, the newly elected La...

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