... had a hefty amount of files on Civil War spies, which included old newspaper clippings and diaries, journals and memoirs written directly by the spies themselves. The different manuscripts, such as letters to and from Antonia Ford, Sarah Thompson's papers and other various letters ... Within each chapter there are subsections that help to separate and organize the stories; for example, "Reaching Elite Circles," "She Would do "Anything," and, "Mama's Been Arrested!" In each chapter there are pictures with headings to give ... the reader more information about things going on in the story...

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... will not have died in vain. This aspect of the Gettysburg address has also been often used in major national events including the speech given by President Bush and also by Mayor Giuliani during the speeches they made at Ground Zero in downtown New York (Stow, 195 - 196). Both of these leaders called on ... the nation to not cower in fear but rise up and protect the freedoms of the United States against terrorism. The use of the Gettysburg Address by leader subsequent to its original use however is not as powerful, not as cogent, and not as blunt as when first delivered. There are severa...

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... words" is taking away the power of words themselves. At the time of Lincoln's speech, brothers were killing brothers, and entire families were torn asunder by a war which had threatened the very fabric of our nation. At the Battle of Gettysburg alone, more than 51,000 were killed. After the battle ... fell there that day. Gettysburg stands as the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Only 272 words long, the Gettysburg Address was carefully crafted by Lincoln. The first draft was written in Washington, and revised in Gettysburg the night before the dedication, at the home of David Wills. T...

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... the poet. He was a man, who in his poetry, expressed independence, interdependence with other living things, and the struggles that are dealt with by him and others in order to gain that independence. He felt and wrote that it is important to stand up for the things in which one ... words "ye", "ev"n", or any other antiquated word. This is just another way in which Walt Whitman declared his independence and encouraged others to declare their independence by reading his writing, even though they were considered unbecoming. However, a praise that inspired Whitman a great deal 3. came from ...

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... at Vicksburg was also a great turning point in the Civil War. This siege signaled a new change in the war. It made the Southerners start to loose faith in their country and in their cause. It also instituted a new kind of warfare. Total war, which is quite common today, was used for the first ... , Lee ordered 14,000 troops to charge and attack the Union stronghold on the top of a hill, the Rebels were blown away by canisters and shells only a couple hundred managed to make it to the top of the hill alive. When up there the soldiers commenced in hand to hand combat. The Confederates retr...

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... gained in the Mexican War. Many southern general greats served in the Mexican War and gained experience the helped them throughout The Civil War. Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jackson, and Ambrose Hill all served in The Mexican War. Robert E. Lee said that he learned many things from The Mexican War and that during that time he really tuned in on his skills ... and Lee met4. Their bonding there helped form their strength in working together during The Civil War. Some Generals like Ambrose Hill severed in both The Mexican War and the Seminole War, fighting in both of those sure readied up Hill f...

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... Movement fought to fought to end slavery within the United States well before the Civil War even happened. Douglass was a brilliant speaker and was asked by the American Anti-Slavery Society to engage in a tour of lectures, and that led him to become one of the first American great black speakers. ... made who he grew up to be. Frederick Baily was born a slave in February 1818 on Holmes Hill Farm, near the town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The farm was part of an estate owned by Aaron Anthony, who also managed the plantations of Edward Lloyd V, one of the wealthiest men in ......

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... . Ralph Waldo Emerson Look up not down; look out and not in; look forward and not back; and lend a hand. Edward Everett Hale Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. Abraham Lincoln It is human wisdom that is needed not just on our ... being realized is a source of great satisfaction. Willy Brandt Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of you soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill Don't worry if you can't do the best thing every time- you"ll rob yourself of ...

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... was a series of hills that would give the Union army a tactical advantage. The series of hills, Culps Hill and Cemetery Hill, were about 800 feet tall. The Iron Brigade unit lead by Rufus Dawes were stationed at Culps Hill. They started using a tactic that not many armies used during the civil war, they built breastworks. A ... do something fast they would risk losing the entire battle and possibly the war. Union Officer George Meade decided to pull 8000 reinforcements from Culp's Hill to help repel the Rebel attack. After about an hour of attack, Barksdale and his Confederate brigade fin...

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... Gettysburg. Later that day, reinforcements from Union General John Reynolds came in to assist Buford. Lee instructed Confederate General Dick Ewell to take Culp's Hill "If at all possible". This task was not accomplished. Lee had not anticipated Ewell's hesitation. He had lost General "Stonewall" Jackson at ... could have been to Longstreet's advantage, for when he was preparing, Union General Dan Sickles became nervous and moved his corps down the hill to occupy the higher ground in front of Cemetery Ridge. This move isolated him from Union General Winfield S. Hancock. Longstreet could...

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... unfaithful night in a poem called "Boes": "I waited today for a freight train to pass Cattle cars with steers butting their horns Against the bars, went by, And half a dozen hoboes stood on Bumpers between cars. Well, the cattle are respectable, I thought." (Hacker 46) After his hobo adventures, Sandburg ... back to Chicago, he was hired as associate editor of The Lyceumite (Hacker 51). December of 1907, Sandburg met his future wife, Lillian Steichen. She was a schoolteacher that shared the same passions for literature (Hacker 52). Sandburg took back his Swedish name Carl because Lillian...

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Jonathan Lethem on Dylan Abraham Lincoln grew his beard - the first worn by an American president - between his election and his swearing-in. Things Have Changed, I believe the message was. Similarly, Bob Dylan grew that funny ... television to watch a crowd of movie stars watching Dylan beamed in like an astronaut from the outback? And yet, for the yearning seemingly beamed back at him by those movie stars - certainly for the yearning and love beamed back at him through screens and across time zones from the room where I sat watching - he ... The record achieved its own "I'm here/I'm not" sl...

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... future dehumanizing memories. He believes in truth, that the truth will set him free from this pain; it will speak for itself. It was a combination of his personal traits: observation, faith in truth, perseverance, self-education and brawn that brought him to seek, attempt, and eventually succeed in finding freedom. His momentum for freedom came from internal instinct. These traits and ... ...

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... suggested giving voting rights to African Americans who could pass literacy tests. Johnson didn't like all the radical views that he said they were "wild upon Negro franchise." Johnson also stated, "It would not do to let the Negroes have universal suffrage now; it would breed a war of ... heard. In the fall of 1865, he landed in New York from a cruise liner. His first chore in America was to find John Stuart Hill, whose writings he wanted to translate to French. His attitude in New York was one of an observer. While in the United States, Clemenceau was ... versus Congress. They disagree...

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... , who died in my tenth year, was of a family of the name of Hanks.... My father ... removed from Kentucky to ... Indiana, in my eighth year.... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up.... Of course when I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher ... but that ... was all."" -abrahamlinclononline.org "On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre in Washington by John Wilkes Booth, an actor, who somehow thought he was ... ...

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... that he was about seventeen years old. Sometime during 1818, Harriet Bailey gave birth to Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in Tuckahoe, Maryland, near Easton. She was the daughter of Isaac and Betsy Bailey, both colored, and quite dark. Frederick's father, however, was white. Color was the only fact ... devotion, I leave those acquainted with my labors to decide" (Douglass 80). In the later 1840's, Douglass protested against segregated seating on trains by sitting in cars reserved for whites. He had to be dragged from the white cars. Most railways eventually dropped their unethical p...

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... personal perspective. Mary Rowlandson, a Puritan woman lived in American since childhood. Her matrimony to the Reverend Joseph Rowlandson brought the responsibilities of mother and frontier wife. In 1675, she was taken captive by Indians in their assaults on the Massachusetts colonists and remained in captivity for eleven weeks, finally ransomed for twenty pounds. Her account of captivity documents her strong Puritan ... thought. Douglass became a prominent speaker on the evils of slavery and the need to abolish it. He served as an example that a black man could be educated and taken ser...

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... found in The Book Of Virtues is a good example of perseverance. The little steam engine was faced with a problem. It was too hard for him to pull his cars up a hill by himself. Instead of just giving up and quitting, he decided to ask others for help. He came across many obstacles though. The other steam engines kept refusing to help him ... though. He kept on asking others until eventually he came across another small engine that agreed to help him. Together they were strong enough to pull the cars up the hill. As one can see from that story, the steam engine's hard work and determinat...

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... The government gave limited funding for their schools and the city was segregated. Young black Children wore being teased and beaten up and sadly sometimes being murdered by the older white teenagers because of their skin color, hair texture > > > >There was one man that wanted to change American society his name ... a sexual relationship that which led to love for each other, few weeks later sally was pregnant with Jefferson's baby. When she returned at Monticello, 9 months later she had gave birth to her first child, and as her light-skinned child grown he started to resemble Jefferson...

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... month of July in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. General Robert E. Lee, Commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, marched into Pennsylvania, but he was met by General George E. Meade and the Union Army. On July 1, 1863, the first day of battle, the Confederates were forced to call for reinforcements. ... At the end of the day, thirty thousand Confederates ultimately defeated twenty thousand Yankees, who were forced to fall back to Cemetery Hill and Culp's Hill. On the second day of battle, the Union arranged ninety thousand troops around the hills and ridges south of Gettysburg. ...

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... Grant did not take his wife and young son because his army pay would not support a family in the West. Living expenses were higher in the West. She also did not want to take their young son on such a hard trip as that would be. Julia stayed with her parents (one source said ... she stayed with his parents). On the trip to the Pacific Coast they went by way of the Panama Canal. Many came down with cholera in Panama and twelve to fifteen died. They had a rough time ... crossing the Isthmus. In a letter written to his wife Julia (from Grants memoirs), he told her he was glad she and their...

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... the area that well. However, soon after noon Rode's Division and Ewell's Corps, troops of the north, attacked. By 4 p.m., however, the Union troops were in retreat through Gettysburg to Cemetery Hill. The Union had already lost 9,000 men, including the 3,000 that were captured. The days action resulted in a ... for the Union, ordered his men and other troops to form a hook shape around the Battle area. The Unions effort to storm the Cemetery Hill, where they had formed the hook, was unsuccessful. The fighting ended again with the Confederacy gaining ground, but failing to hold he Union...

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... HOURS IN THE CORN FIELDS ON THE PLANTATION SO FREDERICK WAS SENT TO HIS GRANDMA BETSY BAILY SHE WAS TO SEE AFTER HIM UNTIL HE WAS ABLE TO WORK IN THE FIELDS. HARRIET VISTED DOUGLASS WHEN SHE COULD DUE TO THE DISTANCE IN BETWEEN THEM.DOUGLASS HAD A VERY HAZY MEMORY OF HIS MOTHERHE ... OUT THAT THIS WAS HIS PATH WAY TO FREDDOM HE MADE IT HIS GOAL TO LEARN. FAMILY LIFE DOUGLASS WAS MARRIED TO ANNA MURRY A BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN. SHE WAS NOT A SLAVE. THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN TO GETHER: ROSETTA DOUGLASS, LEWIS HENRY DOUGLASS, FREDERICK DOUGLASS, JR, CHARLES REMOND DOUGLASS, AND ANNIE WHO DIED ....

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... in the movie are hilarious. In the movie Bill and Ted travel to France in 1805 where through a mishap bring to the future Napoleon; in 1879, Wild, Wild West they nab Billy the Kid; in 410 B.C., Athens, Greece they entice Socrates; in 15th Century, England they meet the Princesses that were to be married ... certain straightness. The only other person of note in the movie is Joan of Arc, played by Jane Wiedlin, you might know her as one of the Go-Go's, and all female rock back from the 80s" She had very few lines in the movie so that may be the reason that this cross over ... be global ro...

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... bored. He started writing more and more and finally wrote a book called "Leaves of Grass". This book caught everyone's attention and surprised a lot of people. Man tried to discourage him by saying the book was a disgrace to humanity and telling people to throw it in the fire, beside the fact that Abraham Lincoln loved it. In fact, so much he thought ... this man due to his homosexuality, his personality, and sometimes even his writings. This never got him down. It just made him even stronger. He wanted to prove everyone wrong by gaining something, although I am quite sure what that wou...

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