FW: Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 6:30 AM
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Subject: Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and Fall of Radical Reconstruction

 

Publisher: Louis..iana Sta..te Unive..rsity Press 2011 | 227 Pages | ISBN: 0807143618 | PDF | 1 MB No other Reconstruction state government was as chaotic or violent as Louisiana's, located in New Orleans, the largest southern city at the time. James K. Hogue explains the unique confluence of demographics, geography, and wartime events that made New Orleans an epicenter in the upheaval of Reconstruction politics and a critical battleground in the struggle for the future of southern society.

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FW: Funkamateur 01 - 2012 (German )

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 6:27 AM
Author: skyline
Subject: Funkamateur 01 - 2012 (German )

 

Funkamateur is one of the very few high level, quality ham radio magazine in Europe. Advanced projects and advanced articles for the well educated radio amateur. Some articles are at an academic level. You really learn something from their articles. You learn German too! Highly recommended! German | PDF | 113 pages | 22.3 Mb

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FW: Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War (by Tim Rowland)

 

 

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Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 6:17 AM
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Subject: Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War (by Tim Rowland)

 

Product Description: 50 bizarre stories of the Civil War. Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don’t get told, and the misadventures you haven’t read about in history books. Share in all the humorous and strange events that took place behind the scenes of some of the most famous Civil War moments. Picture a pedestal in a public park with no statue on top Rowland’s book explains that when the members of the New York Monument Commission went to hire a sculptor to finish the statue, they were shocked to discover that there was no money left in the agency’s accounts to pay for the project. The money for the statue of Dan Sickles had been stolen—stolen by former monument committee chairman Dan Sickles! Brig. Gen. Philip Kearny was the son of a New York tycoon who had helped found the New York Stock Exchange, and who groomed his boy to be a force on Wall Street. The younger Kearny decided his call was to be a force on the field of battle, so despite a law degree and an inheritance of better than $1 million, he joined the U.S. Army and studied cavalry tactics in France. His dashing figure in the saddle earned him the name of Kearny the Magnificent, probably because Kearny rode with a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other while holding the horse’s reins in his teeth. This habit proved useful after he lost his left arm in the Mexican War, because he was able to continue to wave his sword with all the menace Read more...

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