The Civil War offered him an opportunity to use the elegy as a form for new poems of his own. ... The poetic process is highly symbolic: the star is associated with the thought of death, the lilac with a token of life for the dead, and the bird with insight and knowledge of death not as the end but as the beginning of new life. ... In his view, death is always concerning love and nature; it is merely the body's death and what it causes is the immortality of spirit and the beginning of a new life. ... The he-bird, the lone singer, sat there calling out on Land to return his mate an...

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The Rise of "Unconditional Surrender- Grant He sat opposite the impeccably dressed Lee, in plain clothes and muddy boots. ... He devised several plans, adjusting each new plan to correct the shortcomings of the previous attempt. ... Veteran northern soldiers wondered aloud what "Bobby- Lee would do to their new general from the west. ...

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After his escape from slavery via Baltimore and New York, Douglass landed in New Bedford and began his journey as an abolitionist. ... Once in Lynn, Massachusetts, Douglass sat in a section of a railroad car reserved for whites. ... Some of these are new archival materials, but the editor here was able to locate most of them and make use of the material found in the end notes following each chapter. ...

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Plessey was a man with ⅛ of black in him who sat in a whites only section of a train. ... Mexico relinquished California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming to the United States after being defeated in the Mexican-American War. ... " This new policy stipulated that if at least 5 percent of a county did not speak English and less than 50 percent of eligible citizens registered to vote in the previous election did not then the county was required to print bilingual ballots" (McClain and Tauber 144). ...

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Each day Scarlett, her sister-in-law and aunt "sat in front of the Daily Examiners office" to read the lists of injured, missing and dead men(253). ... When men came home for leave they came home in shambles, women worked to sew their loved ones new uniforms, "but the necessary materials were simply not to be found in Atlanta"(265). ... A new problem was Scallawags, who were Southerners turned Republican at the end of the war. ...

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The success of the boycott was a sign that it was time for African Americans to start a new chapter in the battle for equality. ... In 1960, soon after a group of black students sat in a North Carolina restaurant until it closed without being served, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed. ... Supporting President Kennedy's proposal for a new civil rights bill, in 1963, black organizations united to arrange the March on Washington. ...

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Where in this compromise the question was, "should slavery be allowed in the new state of Missouri?" ... Sanford is a resident of New York and not of Missouri, Scott and his lawyers were forced to file suit against Mr.Sanford in federal court. [5] After taking his case to the Missouri Supreme Court and being denied his freedom, due to an overturning of the lesser court's decision, Mr. ... In fact a majority of the Justices that sat on the Supreme Court at that time were prominent slave holders as well. ...

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Grant, New York: Charles L. ... New York: The Century Co., 1897) Well with all of the formalities outlined, the Generals and Admiral knew what needed to be done. ... On March 24, before the meeting with President Lincoln, Grant drew up a new plan for a flanking movement against the Confederates right below Petersburg. ... No one can be sure what Lincoln was thinking as he sat in Davis' office. ... New York: The Century Co., 1887). ...

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Grant, New York: Charles L. ... New York: The Century Co., 1897) Well with all of the formalities outlined, the Generals and Admiral knew what needed to be done. ... On March 24, before the meeting with President Lincoln, Grant drew up a new plan for a flanking movement against the Confederates right below Petersburg. ... No one can be sure what Lincoln was thinking as he sat in Davis' office. ... New York: The Century Co., 1887). ...

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After fighting, and the death of 617,000 Americans, the Civil War came to a close, and began a new era for African Americans. ... Woolworth store and quietly sat down at the lunch counter (Memory). ...

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Another was a sit-in, when black students sat and waited to be served in the same cafeterias as whites. ... In all honest, I believe that during my life, I will live to see an African American hold a distinguish position, such as the President of the United States. 4"The years that lie behind you, with all their struggle and pains, will in time be remembered only as the way that led to your new life". ...

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Lincoln sat in a comfortable armchair rushed into the theater especially for him that afternoon, and drew the curtain halfway across his booth, as a gesture of humility. Abraham Lincoln sat next to his wife and behind some important government officials. ...

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This succession would also lead to the creation of a new state due to the concentration of Pro Union counties east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. ... During this, Jackson and his brigade sat in reserve and entered the battle leading his men into the artillery fire. ... Due to this successful victory Jackson's brigade gained much needed morale and respect for their new leader. ...

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Clarksburg, Virginia (later to become West Virginia), January 21, 1824, the Jackson family was blessed by a new member of the family, Thomas. ... Although not committed to a certain church, he would walk three miles to attend either a Baptist or a Methodist church and sat attentively listening to the sermon. ...

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