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Drummer Boy’s Life
Article posted April 8, 2012 at 05:23 PM GMT •
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I really don't like my life as a drummer boy. I really didn't want to become one, what I really wanted to do was to be a drummer in some sort of concert, you know, playing amazing classics and whatnot. I didn't know that when the private said that he wanted me to pick up some drumsticks and drum, he really wanted me to get up at the crack of dawn and wake everyone up, and at night to signal curfew. What a life!
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Article posted April 8, 2012 at 05:23 PM GMT •
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1864: Yosemite State Park
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 07:19 PM GMT •
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1.is a glacial valley
2.in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of California
3.carved out by the Merced River
4.renowned for its natural beauty
5.over time the Sierra Nevada was uplifted and this rock was exposed at the surface where it was modified by erosion
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 07:19 PM GMT •
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August 5, 1864: Battle of Mobile Bay
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 07:14 PM GMT •
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David Glasgow Farragut was a flag officer of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. He was the first rear admiral, vice admiral, and admiral in the United States Navy. He is remembered in popular culture for his order at the Battle of Mobile Bay, usually paraphrased: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" by U.S. Navy tradition.
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 07:14 PM GMT •
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March 12, 1864: General Grant Becomes a Commander
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:54 PM GMT •
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In office
March 4, 1869 – March 4, 1877
Point Pleasant, Ohio, US
1.Republican
2.Spouse was Julia Dent
3.defeated the Confederate military and effectively ended the war with the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army at Appomattox
4.18th President of the United States
5.graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:54 PM GMT •
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Cities
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:48 PM GMT •
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Richmond, Virginia
Washington D.C.
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:48 PM GMT •
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Food
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:42 PM GMT •
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scarce~insufficient to satisfy the need or demand; not abundant
quality~1.an essential or distinctive characteristic, property, or attribute: the chemical qualities of alcohol.
2.character or nature, as belonging to or distinguishing a thing: the quality of a sound.
3.character with respect to fineness, or grade of excellence: food of poor quality; silks of fine quality.
4.high grade; superiority; excellence: wood grain of quality.
5.a personality or character trait: kindness is one of her many good qualities.
contaminated~to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:42 PM GMT •
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1863: “When Johnny comes Marching Home Again”
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:32 PM GMT •
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When Johnny comes marching home again,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The men will cheer and the boys will shout
The ladies they will all turn out
And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.
The old church bell will peal with joy
Hurrah! Hurrah!
To welcome home our darling boy,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The village lads and lassies say
With roses they will strew the way,
And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.
Get ready for the Jubilee,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give the hero three times three,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The laurel wreath is ready now
To place upon his loyal brow
And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.
Let love and friendship on that day,
Hurrah, hurrah!
Their choicest pleasures then display,
Hurrah, hurrah!
And let each one perform some part,
To fill with joy the warrior's heart,
And we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:32 PM GMT •
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1863: Draft Riot
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:28 PM GMT •
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violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:28 PM GMT •
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November 19, 1863: Gettysburg Address
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:25 PM GMT •
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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 06:25 PM GMT •
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Singing Soldiers
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 05:52 PM GMT •
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Oh! Susanna~ Lyrics
I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee
I'm going to Louisiana,
My true love for to see
It rained all night
The day I left
The weather it was dry
The sun so hot,
I froze to death
Susanna, don't you cry
Oh, Susanna,
Oh don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee
I had a dream the other night
When everything was still
I thought I saw Susanna
A-coming down the hill
The buckwheat cake
Was in her mouth
The tear was
In her eye
Says I, I'm coming from the south
Susanna, don't you cry
Oh, Susanna,
Oh don't you cry for me
For I come from Alabama
With my banjo on my knee
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 05:52 PM GMT •
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Holmes & Coute Army Bread
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 05:47 PM GMT •
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They ate corn, bacon, collected berries, and once in a while they ate beef stew and plain Irish stew, corn meal, water, coffee, baked beans, goober peas, sometimes dried beef, occasionally salted pork, and biscuits.
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 05:47 PM GMT •
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Prisoner Exchange
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 05:45 PM GMT •
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60 privates = 1 GENERAL
3 GENERALS = y privates
3 GENERALS * 60 privates = y
y = 180
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 05:45 PM GMT •
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1863: Battle of Gettysburg
Article posted April 7, 2012 at 05:38 PM GMT •
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1.Date July 1–3, 1863
2.Location Adams County, Pennsylvania
3.Result was a Union victory
4.the war's turning point
5.ended Lee's invasion of the North
6.Lee had 71,699 people
7.Meade had 93,921 people
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 05:38 PM GMT •
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July 4, 1863: Vicksburg
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Length 2,320 mi (3,734 km)
Name origin: Ojibwe word misi-ziibi, meaning "Great River", or gichi-ziibi, meaning "Big River"
Source Lake Itasca
longest river in the North America
fourth longest and tenth largest among the world's rivers
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Article posted April 7, 2012 at 05:33 PM GMT •
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Underground Railroad
Article posted March 31, 2012 at 05:20 PM GMT •
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The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives. Other various routes led to Mexico or overseas. While an "underground railroad" running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860. One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad". British North America, where slavery was prohibited, was a popular destination, as its long border gave many points of access. More than 30,000 people were said to have escaped there via the network at its peak, although U.S. Census figures account for only 6,000. The Underground Railroad fugitives' stories are documented in the Underground Railroad Records.
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Article posted March 31, 2012 at 05:20 PM GMT •
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December 12,1862: Matthew Brady
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one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers
best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War
He is credited with being the father of photojournalism
1822 – January 15, 1896
the youngest of three children
In 1844 Brady opened his own photography studio in New York
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Article posted March 31, 2012 at 05:13 PM GMT •
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Sports
Article posted March 31, 2012 at 04:56 PM GMT •
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football~1837
marbles~Ancient Egypt
checkers~12th century
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Article posted March 31, 2012 at 04:56 PM GMT •
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1862: General William S. Rosecrans
Article posted March 31, 2012 at 04:48 PM GMT •
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was an inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and United States Army officer
gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War
was the victor at prominent Western Theater battles
his military career was effectively ended following his disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863
graduate of West Point
served as a professor at the Academy and in engineering assignments before leaving the Army to pursue a career in civil engineering
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Article posted March 31, 2012 at 04:48 PM GMT •
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October, 1862: Battle of Perryville
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Philip Henry Sheridan was a career United States Army officer. His career was noted for his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who transferred Sheridan from command of an infantry division in the Western Theater to lead the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern United States.
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1862: Emancipation Proclamation
Article posted March 31, 2012 at 04:38 PM GMT •
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emancipation~noun
1. the act of emancipating.
2. the state or fact of being emancipated.
proclamation~noun
1. something that is proclaimed; a public and official announcement.
2. the act of proclaiming.
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Article posted March 31, 2012 at 04:38 PM GMT •
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