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[2]: 37 Wakeman's letters were subsequently edited and published by Lauren Burgess in 1994 as An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862–1864. [1] Her relatives still have the letters, a photograph, and a ring of Wakeman's. [2]: 50
The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the name The Federalist Papers emerged in the ...
Letters of Centinel is a series of letters written by Samuel Bryan important in the Anti-Federalist movement and American political thought. [1]
Losses were far higher than during the war with Mexico, which saw roughly 13,000 American deaths, including fewer than two thousand killed in battle, between 1846 and 1848. One reason for the high number of battle deaths in the civil war was the continued use of tactics similar to those of the Napoleonic Wars, such as charging.
The Bixby letter in the Boston Evening Transcript. The Bixby letter is a brief, consoling message sent by President Abraham Lincoln in November 1864 to Lydia Parker Bixby, a widow living in Boston, Massachusetts, who was thought to have lost five sons in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters of John White Geary. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Blegen, Theodore C., ed. The Civil War Letters of Colonel Hans Christian Heg. Northfield, Minnesota: Norwegian American Historical Association, 1936.
Three hundred love letters written during WWII were discovered in a trunk and tell the story of a forbidden love between two gay men. ... The secret romance between a World War II soldier and his ...
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 ...