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This Hallowed Ground: The Story of the Union Side of the Civil War. Doubleday. ISBN 1-85326-696-5. LCCN 56-5960. Coombe, Jack D., Gunfire Around the Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaigns of the Civil War, Bantam Books, 1999, ISBN 0-553-10731-3; Craven, Avery, The Coming of the Civil War, University of Chicago Press, 1957, ISBN 0-226-11894-0
Jefferson's first inauguration, on March 4, 1801, was the first to be held in the nation's new capital, Washington, D.C. [13] That morning an artillery company on Capitol Hill had fired shots to welcome the daybreak, and in a first for a newspaper, Jefferson gave a copy of his speech to the National Intelligencer for it to be published and ...
In 1864, pressure mounted for both sides to seek a peace settlement to end the long and devastating Civil War. [1] Several people had sought to broker a North–South peace treaty in 1864. Francis Preston Blair , a personal friend of both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, had unsuccessfully encouraged Lincoln to make a diplomatic visit to ...
In order to sustain a civil society as well as maintain production of munitions of war, an act of April 21, 1862 [11] exempted persons in a number of reserved occupations from the draft. Among those exempted were confederate and state officials, Christian Ministers , professors and teachers, druggists , hospital attendants , mine, foundry ...
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [e] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
The Battle of West Point, Georgia (April 16, 1865), formed part of the Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia, known as Wilson's Raid, in the final full month of the American Civil War. The rail junction of West Point was one of the two Chattahoochee River crossings, which General James H. Wilson planned to destroy after capturing ...
However, unlike the Union, the Confederacy lacked a Department of the Interior, and created a Justice Department (the position of U.S. Attorney General existed, but the U.S. Department of Justice was only created in 1870, after the end of the Civil War). [1] The Confederate cabinet was ineffective.
In his discussions with British Minister George Hammond, he tried in vain to persuade the British to vacate their posts in the Northwest and to compensate the U.S. for enslaved people whom the British had freed at the end of the war. Jefferson sought a return to private life, and resigned from the cabinet position in December 1793; he may also ...