... styles of [women's] dress necessitated by the exigencies ofwar gave the crowd a very striking appearance. In singlesuits I saw sleeves of one color, the waist of another, the skirt of another; ... begun on the other. The colonel put a guard at the gate to limit the water given. Next came the owner ofthe house and said we must move; he wanted the house, but it was so big he'd just bring ... head.Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes ofthe by Various 32 [Illustration: QUESTIONING A PRISONER.]FAMOUS ADVENTURES AND PRISON ESCAPES OFTHECIVIL WAR [Illustration]NEW YORK THE CENTURY...
... terminated, there wasnothing but the usual thickets to impede the enemy's approach.As the narrative proceeds, the position ofthe Confederate army, who held the broken ground on the other side of ... Taylor's Hill on the Rappahannock. Newton's division, together with Russell's brigade of Brooks' division, faced McLaws on the west, and Brooks' other two brigades those of ... solely to the utter lack of all preparations on the part of Howard to meet the emergency, and to Hooker's failure to make use ofthe ample means at hisdisposal to prevent the junction of Stuart...
... XXIII.CHAPTER XXIV.CHAPTER XXV.CHAPTER XXVI.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.CHAPTER IV.CHAPTER V.CHAPTER VI.CHAPTER VII.CHAPTER VIII.CHAPTER IX.CHAPTER X.1 On the 15th of April Parliament ... betokened to be the captain of a vessel. They were talking ofthe war, and ofthe probability ofthe Scottish army taking part in it. The fishermen were all ofthe popular party; but the captain, who ... VIII.CHAPTER IX.CHAPTER X.CHAPTER XI.CHAPTER XII.CHAPTER XIII.CHAPTER XIV.CHAPTER XV.CHAPTER XVI.CHAPTER XVII.CHAPTER XVIII.CHAPTER XIX.CHAPTER XX.CHAPTER XXI.CHAPTER XXII.CHAPTER...
... to abuse their office andinfluence to the injury ofthe laws and peace ofthe country. The elimination ofthe Christian teachers of the Negro race, and the prevention ofthe immigration of workers ... as their peculiar needs demanded. In the agricultural sections the first duty ofthe teacher ofthe blacks was to show them how to get their living from the soil. This was the final test of their ... resulting from the proximity of the communities, and to the coöperation ofthe Canadians. The previous experience of most of theseadventurers as sojourners in the free States developed in them such...
... practiceThere is a growing consensus that the current predominantly career based system in the Vietnamese civil service is one ofthe major causesofthe shortcomings ofthe system. The increasing ... resources for the continuing prosperity ofthe country? The purpose ofthe working paper on civil service reform is therefore to analyse and identify options for the reform ofcivil servant ... members ofthe party and the notion ofcivil servant neutrality” has never been applied. The personnel management system for the Party runs in parallel with that of the Government. Although there...
... presents to the President, the Congress, and the American people the results of its examination and its conclusions as to thecausesofthe crisis. More than two years after the worst ofthe nancial ... Development, the Oce ofthe Comptroller ofthe Currency, the Oce of Fed-eral Housing Enterprise Oversight (and its successor, the Federal Housing FinanceAgency), the Oce of Thrift Supervision, the ... its causes, we also pres-ent specic conclusions at the end of chapters in Parts III, IV, and V of this report. The subject of this report is of no small consequence to this nation. The profoundevents...
... during the Cold War. e authors note further that the long war, like the Cold War, “takes time,” and whether looking back on the 40 years ofthe Cold War, or further back to World War I (thus ... Chapter Two, we discuss current uses ofthe term “long war and describe our synthesis definition ofthe long war to aid in further analysis.In Chapter ree, we describe the participants in the ... However, the most common misconception of the long war has been the attribution of one of these as being more important than the others. Equating the long war to just terrorism or just an “ideological...
... one ofthe most disgraceful,in thehistoryoftheWarof Secession, in its border phase. The first in the long procession of refugees were those ofthe army of Opoeth-le-yo-ho-la who, after their ... government,in the winter of 1862, was the fact that hundreds and thousands of their southern brethren were then refugeesbecause of their courageous and unswerving devotion to the American Union. The tale ... tale of those refugees, of their wanderings, their deprivations, their sufferings, and their wrongs, comparable only to that of the Belgians in the Great European Warof 1914, is one ofthe saddest...
... was devoted to the cause of the Union, but the allegiance ofthe two others, both slave-holding, was very doubtful at the time ofthe outbreak of hostilities. The general course ofthe Mississippi ... by the enemy, half a dozen of herCHAPTER II. 22 patrolling the river. On the 16th the fleet anchored just below the intended position ofthe mortar-boats on the west bank ofthe stream. The ... and shewent by the name ofthe old war- horse.There was one other vessel of size equal to the Benton, which, being commanded by a son of CommodorePorter, ofthewarof 1812, got the name Essex....
... stubborness, the begining oftheCivilWar had started with no casualities but the rifles had been fired, Union against the Confederacy. The north and the south had it's share of loud mouths ... with the slaveowners families and then freeing the slaves so they could join in arms with his party. But there is another side ofthe coin and that is where Dred Scott comes in theCivilWar ... would die at the hands of their own countrymen, people that they fought with during the Revolutionary War so that they could be free ofthe monarchy of British Rule. Now in today's perspective,...
... the hands of their own countrymen,people that they fought with during the Revolutionary War so that theycould be free ofthe monarchy of British Rule. Now in today'sperspective, we, the ... the decision and this made it veryimpossible not to foresee the coming oftheCivil War. When we look to the past and see that this hunk of rock now known as the United Stateswas given to us ... But there is another side ofthe coin and that is where Dred Scottcomes in theCivilWar picture. Dred Scott was a slave who was taken toIllinois by his master on a trip and taking notice to the...
... demand for their own stock and for that purpose they used the leeway that could be created by the trading ofthe proprietary trading desks. 21. CHAPTER – CAUSESOFTHE COLLAPSE OFTHE ICELANDIC ... ofthe capital base at the end of 2006 to almost 30 % ofthe capital base in mid year 2008 (see Figure 15). If only the core component ofthe capital base is examined it is apparent that the ... objective ofthe Icelandic banks was rapid growth and, fur-thermore, there were incentives for growth within the banks. Therefore, it 21. CHAPTER – CAUSESOFTHE COLLAPSE OFTHE ICELANDIC...
... with thewar in Afghanistan, with most ofthe later increase attributable to thewar in Iraq and the continuing cost ofthe occupation in Afghanistan. Appendix Table 1 compares projected the ... structure ofthe Global Insights model, it likely understates the negative impact of military spending relative to other models. The next section of this paper describes the key projections ofthe ... useful to have the Congressional Budget Office produce its own projections ofthe economic impact of a sustained increase in defense spending. The Economic Impact of the...
... not the burning of a peasant's house, or the strangulation of one or two individuals in a village, which struck the eye of a spectator—but the houses ofthe most respectable farmers in the ... nay, houses of gentlemen of large fortune, and, in many instances, ofthe most approved loyalty, converted into barracks by the soldiery the females ofthe family flying from the insults of these ... made the grand effort which was to decide whether the will ofthe nation or that ofthe old faction should govern. The latter was victorious. The people, with the characteristic levity of their...