Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War AmericaThis book is a narrative history of the thirty-year struggle to outlaw slavery, starting with the founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1834 and extending until the abolition of slavery in the United States at the end of the Civil War. |
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... Army and was eventually sent to the Crimea as a military observer during the Crimean War . After that he quit the Army and went into civilian life as a civil engineer and eventually ended up as the president of a railroad in the Midwest ...
... army to invade the South . Napoleon III , Mercier's boss , wanted to recognize the Confederate government following the Seven Days ' Battles at the end of June . But he wanted to do it jointly with London . London wanted a pair of clear ...
... Army of Northern Virginia had been reduced from the 55,000 men it had during most of the siege to only 35,000 . A quarter of his army was cutoff by three Union corps at Saylor's Creek on April 6 and 6,000 Confederates were captured ...
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell No preview available - 2007 |