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Jennifer Johnston
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Mary Johnston
Mary Johnston 1870-1936, American novelist, b. Buchanan, Va. Her books combine romance with history. She is chiefly remembered for To Have and to Hold (1900), a story of colonial Virginia, and its successor, Audrey (1902). Her other novels include two Civil War stories, The Long Roll (1911)... Read more |
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Battle of Atlanta
Atlanta, Battle of (1864).Throughout May, June, and early July 1864, the Union army of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman advanced through northern Georgia toward Atlanta while the Confederate army of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, to the increasing alarm of the Richmond authorities, retreated in front... Read more |
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Atlanta campaign
Atlanta campaign May-Sept., 1864, of the U.S. Civil War. In the spring of 1864, Gen. W. T. Sherman concentrated the Union armies of G. H. Thomas, J. B. McPherson, and J. M. Schofield around Chattanooga. On May 6 he began to move along the railroad from Chattanooga to Atlanta against Dalton, Ga.,... Read more |
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United States Pacific Dependencies
UNITED STATES PACIFIC DEPENDENCIES AMERICAN SAMOA GUAM HOWLAND, BAKER, AND JARVIS ISLANDS JOHNSTON ATOLL MIDWAY NORTHERN MARIANAS PALMYRA ATOLL WAKE ISLAND AMERICAN SAMOA American Samoa, an unincorporated and unorganized insular US territory in... Read more |
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Literacy
LITERACY emergent literacyemilia ferreiro intertextualitydavid m. bloomesusan r. goldman learning from multimedia sourcesjennifer wileyjoshua a. hemmerich multimedia literacydavid reinking narrative comprehension and productionrolf a. zwaankatinka dijkstra vocabulary and vocabulary... Read more |
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Richard Malcolm Johnston
Richard Malcolm Johnston 1822-98, American author, b. Hancock co., Ga., grad. Mercer Univ., 1841. He is known for his stories and sketches of rural Georgia, of which the collection Dukesborough Tales (1871) is best known. Bibliography: See his autobiography (1900).... Read more |
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Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard , 1818-93, Confederate general, b. St. Bernard parish, La., grad. West Point, 1838. As engineer on the staff of Winfield Scott in the Mexican War, he figured prominently in the taking of Mexico City. He later did engineering work in Louisiana, and for five days in... Read more |
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Stonewall Jackson
Stonewall Jackson (Thomas Jonathan Jackson), 1824-63, Confederate general, b. Clarksburg, Va. (now W.Va.), grad. West Point, 1846. Like a Stone Wall He served with distinction under Winfield Scott in the Mexican War and from 1851 to 1861 taught at the Virginia Military Institute. He resigned from... Read more |
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Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg 1817-76, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War, b. Warrenton, N.C. A graduate of West Point, he fought the Seminole and in the Mexican War was promoted to lieutenant colonel for distinguished service at Buena Vista. He resigned from the army in 1856 and lived on his Louisiana... Read more |
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Lee, Robert E(dward)
Lee, Robert E[dward] (1807–70), son of Henry...literature, Northern as well as Southern, e.g. Masters's Lee: A Dramatic Poem...Reuben Thompson's poem Lee to the Rear and Mary Johnston's novel Cease Firing (1912). |
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Jamestown
...and later historical novels include John Davis, The First Settlers of Virginia (1806), J.E. Cooke, My Lady Pokahontas (1885), and Mary Johnston, To Have and To Hold (1900). |
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Lincoln, Abraham
...died. His father soon married Sarah Bush Johnston, who became a loving stepmother. Abraham...rearing a family. In 1842 he had married Mary Todd, who was from a prominent Kentucky family...1862, McClellan repelled General Robert E. Lee's invading forces but failed to... |
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Sherman, William Tecumseh
...Lancaster, Ohio, the sixth child of Charles R. and Mary Hoyt Sherman, Sherman was named for the Shawnee Indian...warfare, he repeatedly outflanked Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Defeating Gen. John Bell Hood, Sherman captured Atlanta... |
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printmaking
...John F. Hunter (1893–1951) and E. M. O'Rorke Dickey (1894–1977...northerners include Colin Middleton, Roy Johnston, Felim Egan, Victor Sloan, and John Kindness...important Irish‐American printmaker, Mary Farl Powers, died young in Dublin in 1992... |
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Stanton, Edwin M.
...proposed surrender terms to Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.Lincoln's assassination released a...Stanton, who pushed the execution of Mrs. Mary Surratt and tried to implicate Jefferson...Lincoln's Secretary of War, 1962. Frank E. Vandiver |
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Lee, Robert E.
...plantation in Virginia, Robert E. Lee was the son of Henry Lee...and in 1831 he married Mary Custis, daughter of Martha...Fitzhugh Lee, and Robert E. Lee, Jr.—all served as officers...June 1862 succeeded Joseph E. Johnston as commanding ... |
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Western Sierra Bank Promotes Mary Johnston To Regional VP.
...announce the promotion of Mary Johnston to the position of Regional...Placer County and Ms. Johnston will be responsible for...the entire Region. Mary Johnston joined Western Sierra...in Roseville, and on E. Bidwell in ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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Mary Johnston, 79 N.E. tennis hall-of-fame member
Mary Elise Pilliard Richards Johnston, a member of the United States Tennis...Born in Penryn, Calif., Mrs. Johnston graduated from Placer High School...School in San Andreas, Calif. Mrs. Johnston moved to Massachusetts in 1943 to... |
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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MARY E. JOHNSTON; ANDREW C. COLLIER.(CNY)
...engagement of their daughter, Mary Elizabeth Johnston, to Andrew Charles Collier...Norcross, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johnston Sr., of Daniel Island, S...S): PHOTO NO CREDIT Mary E. Johnston Andrew C. Collier |
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Mary E. Johnston of Quincy, at 60, HoJo's retiree.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
Mary E. (Nowell) Johnston of Quincy, a retired employee of the...She was 60. Born in Rockland, Mrs. Johnston had lived in Quincy for several years...graduate of Brockton High School. Mrs. Johnston worked for the former Howard Johnson... |
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MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD ISSUES DECISION REGARDING MARY ANN JOHNSTON V....
...the following decision: Mary Ann Johnston, Appellant, v. Department...G. McPhie, Chairman Mary M. Rose, Vice Chairman...review is compensable. E.g., Conner v. Office...hours expended. See, e.g., Krape v. Department... |
 "The People (London, England)")
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Mary Johnston's column: HOLME TRUTHS.(Features)
...concentrating hard to get to grips with the Internet. He says: "I can handle e-mails and that,. But there is nothing that I couldn't do without...function." All the same, I bet the Holmes kids can now check their PC for e-mails from daddy. |
 "The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)")
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OBIT - JOHNSTON, MARY TABB LANCASTER
JOHNSTON, Mary Tabb Lancaster, 86...widow of Dr. George Burke Johnston. Mrs. Johnston was born in Blacksburg...law, Thomas McCorvey Johnston of Fairfax, Va., and...Canterbury, 501 V.E.S. Road, Lynchburg... |
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POLICE SEEK MISSING TEEN; PHILLIP JOHNSTON, OF OSWEGO, WAS LAST SEEN THURSDAY...
...school. His mother, Mary, reported him missing...anything to himself," Mary Johnston said Tuesday. She described...Matthew Coffey said. Mary Johnston said that while her son...dead end." Phillip Johnston is the oldest of ... |
 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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William G. Johnston.(Obituary)
William G. Johnston of St. Charles Funeral services for William G. Johnston, 82, will be held at...Yurs Funeral Home, 405 E. Main St., St. Charles...An Army veteran, Mr. Johnston had served in the Pacific...son, William G. IV (Mary) ... |
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DeLoris C. Johnston of St. Charles.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
DeLoris C. Johnston of St. Charles Funeral services for DeLoris C. Johnston, age 88, formerly of...Yurs Funeral Home, 405 E. Main St. (corner...Hospital in Geneva. Mrs. Johnston is survived by two children...daughter-in-law, Mary ... |
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