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On the night of Dec. 31, 1862, enslaved and free African Americans gathered to watch and wait for news that the previously announced Emancipation Proclamation would, in fact, become the law of the ...
Scene Seven is set at St. Crux, the Bartram country house. Magdalen, serving as a parlour maid under Louisa's name for Admiral Bartram, searches through the house for the Secret Trust. Eventually she locates it by following Admiral Bartram as he sleepwalks, but she is discovered and secretly leaves the house before she can be discharged for ...
The 1862 State of the Union Address was written by the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and delivered to the 37th United States Congress, on Monday, December 1, 1862, amid the ongoing American Civil War. [1] This address was Lincoln's longest State of the Union Address, consisting of 8,385 words. [2]
Nast believed in equal opportunity and equality for all people, including enslaved Africans or free blacks. A mass rally in Chicago on September 7, 1862, demanded immediate and universal emancipation of slaves. A delegation headed by William W. Patton met the president at the White House on September 13. Lincoln had declared in peacetime that ...
The Seven Days Battles were a series of seven battles over seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove the invading Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, away from Richmond and into a retreat down the Virginia Peninsula.
The Battle of Perryville battlefield as depicted in Harper's Weekly, November 1, 1862. By October 7, Polk's forces had fallen back to the town of Perryville. The dry summer of 1862 had left water in short supply, and when the Union troops learned of water in Perryville's Doctor's Creek, they began to move on the Confederate position.
The Battle of Oak Grove, also known as the Battle of French's Field or King's School House, took place on June 25, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, the first of the Seven Days Battles (Peninsula Campaign) of the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan advanced his lines with the objective of bringing Richmond within range of his ...
[7] Around 5 miles (8 km) from Rockbridge, Barstow's patrol encountered Confederate troops. [7] According to Barstow's post-battle report, this clash resulted in nine Confederate dead and four Union casualties, two of whom were dead. [11] Outnumbered and aware of Confederates approaching from multiple directions, [9] Barstow fell back to Clark ...