The Life and Public Services of S. Colfax: Together with His Most Important Speeches
Author: Edward Winslow MARTIN (pseud. [i.e. James Dabney McCabe.])
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 524
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Author: Edward Winslow MARTIN (pseud. [i.e. James Dabney McCabe.])
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 524
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 794
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 528
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward S. Alexander
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Published: 2015-04-01
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1611212804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter the unprecedented violence of the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant turned his gaze south of Richmond to Petersburg, and the key railroad junction that supplied the Confederate capital and its defenders. Nine grueling months of constant maneuver and combat around the Cockade City followed. As massive fortifications soon dominated the landscape, both armies frequently pushed each other to the brink of disaster. As March 1865 drew to a close, Grant planned one more charge against Confederate lines. Despite recent successes, many viewed this latest task as an impossibilityand their trepidation had merit. These lines might well have been looked upon by the enemy as impregnable, admitted Union Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright, and nothing but the most resolute bravery could have overcome them. Grant ordered the attack for April 2, 1865, setting the stage for a dramatic early morning bayonet charge by his VI Corps across half a mile of open ground into the strongest line of works ever constructed in America. Dawn of Victory: Breakthrough at Petersburg by Edward S. Alexander tells the story of the men who fought and died in the decisive battle of the Petersburg campaign. Readers can follow the footsteps of the resolute Union attackers and stand in the shoes of the obstinate Confederate defenders as their actions decided the fate of the nation.
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 634
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 340
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Published: 1869
Total Pages: 332
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 626
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hugh Howard
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Published: 2022-01-25
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0802159249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dual portrait of America’s first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted—and their immense impact on America As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America’s first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist, the force behind Manhattan’s Central Park, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Biltmore’s parkland in Asheville, dozens of parks across the country, and the preservation of Yosemite and Niagara Falls. Yet his close friend and sometime collaborator, Henry Hobson Richardson, has been almost entirely forgotten today, despite his outsized influence on American architecture—from Boston’s iconic Trinity Church to Chicago’s Marshall Field Wholesale Store to the Shingle Style and the wildly popular “open plan” he conceived for family homes. Individually they created much-beloved buildings and public spaces. Together they married natural landscapes with built structures in train stations and public libraries that helped drive the shift in American life from congested cities to developing suburbs across the country. The small, reserved Olmsted and the passionate, Falstaffian Richardson could not have been more different in character, but their sensibilities were closely aligned. In chronicling their intersecting lives and work in the context of the nation’s post-war renewal, Hugh Howard reveals how these two men created original all-American idioms in architecture and landscape that influence how we enjoy our public and private spaces to this day.