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Prior to the strike, the start of the American Civil War in 1861 and the subsequent upswing of wartime industrial production in the North, East and West, had brought with it greater labor power among industrial workers. Initially many workers were hesitant to strike due to its potential interference with the war effort, however after facing ...
Peruvian civil war of 1865: Revolutionaries Government of Peru: 1865 1875 Saudi Civil War: Supporters of Saud: Supporters of Rahman: 1865 1872 Black Hawk War (1865–72) United States: Ute Paiute Navajo Apache: 1865 1865 Powder River Expedition (1865) United States: Arapaho Sioux Cheyenne: 1865 1865 Morant Bay rebellion British Empire: Jamaican ...
September 22 – Garrett Davis, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1861 to 1872 (born 1801) October 10 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 (born 1801) November 5 – Thomas Sully, portrait painter (born 1783 in Great Britain) November 6 – George Meade, Civil War general (born 1815)
The Republican Party had emerged as the dominant party in the aftermath of the Civil War, but many original Republicans became dissatisfied with the leadership of President Grant. Prominent liberal leaders like Schurz, Charles Sumner and Lyman Trumbull had been leaders in the fight against slavery and for the first stages of Reconstruction.
The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the Fourteenth Amendment, adopted on July 9, 1868. Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the election or appointment to any federal or state office of any person who had held any of ...
"The Apple of Discord at the Geneva Convention", October 5, 1872 "Columbia Lays Aside her Laurels", November 9, 1872. Note that the "laurels" laid aside are those won at the Geneva arbitration. Great Britain and the American Civil War Op. cit. at Project Gutenberg; La salle de l'Alabama in the Hotel de Ville, Geneva (in French)
Edward Black (May 30, 1853 – June 30, 1872) was a drummer boy for the Union during the American Civil War. At twelve years old, his left hand and arm were shattered by an exploding shell. He is considered to be the youngest wounded soldier of the war. [1] [2]
Edward Alfred Pollard (February 27, 1832 – December 17, 1872) was an American author, journalist, and Confederate sympathizer during the American Civil War who wrote several books on the causes and events of the war, notably The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (1866) and The Lost Cause Regained (1868), [1] wherein Pollard originated the long-standing pseudo ...