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The letter became an immediate media sensation with reprints in the New York Daily Tribune of August 22, 1865, [1] and Lydia Maria Child's The Freedmen's Book the same year. [3] In the letter, Jordan Anderson describes his better life in Ohio, and asks his former master for $11,680 in back wages (well over $100,000 inflation adjusted as of 2024 ...
Valentine Walton [1] (c. 1594–1661) was an English politician, a member of the Parliamentarian faction in the English Civil War, and one of the regicides of King Charles I of England. [ 2 ] Biography
Charles Benjamin Norton (July 1, 1825 – 1891) was an American archivist, early American historian and publisher of books, a dealer in rare books and one of the few individuals in his day that made arduous efforts to preserve early American history in the form of published manuscripts, books, diaries, letters, etc.
Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, JP, PC (31 October 1598 – 17 February 1680) was an English statesman, best remembered as one of the Five Members whose attempted arrest by Charles I in January 1642 sparked the First English Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln in 1863. Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America is a letter written by Karl Marx between November 22 to 29, 1864 that was addressed to then-United States President Abraham Lincoln by United States Ambassador Charles Francis Adams Sr. [1] The letter was written on behalf of the International Workingmen ...
American Civil War Charles L. Valentine (October 16, 1846 – April 13, 1925) was an American government administrator and Republican politician. He was the 37th mayor of Janesville, Wisconsin , and represented Janesville in the Wisconsin State Assembly during the 1901 and 1903 sessions.
Order as a broadside Order as printed in the Daily Picayune newspaper, New Orleans Cartoon from Harper's Weekly, 12 July 1862. General Order No. 28 was a military decree made by Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler during the American Civil War. [1]
Peter Valentine Hagner (August 28, 1815 – March 11, 1893) was an officer of ordnance who served for over 40 years in the United States Army and was Brevetted Brigadier General. Early life [ edit ]