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Robert Toombs
Robert Toombs 1810-85, American statesman, Confederate leader, b. Wilkes co., Ga. A successful lawyer in Georgia, he entered politics as a Whig, serving in the state legislature and in Congress (1845-53). He favored the Compromise of 1850 and with Howell Cobb and Alexander H. Stephens canvassed... Read more |
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Hampton Roads Peace Conference
Hampton Roads Peace Conference meeting held on Feb. 3, 1865, on board the Union transport River Queen in Hampton Roads, Va., with the object of ending the Civil War. President Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward represented the Union, and A. H. Stephens, R. M. T. Hunter, and J. A.... Read more |
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Martin H. Greenberg
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James H. Caldwell
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W. H. Smith
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Shermans March 1864
Sherman's March to the Sea (1864–65).After capturing Atlanta in September 1864, a victory that guaranteed the reelection of Abraham Lincoln and the continuation of the Civil War, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Union commander in the west, turned his thoughts to the most direct assault he... Read more |
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Vah
Váh , Hung. Vág, river, c.245 mi (390 km) long, Slovakia. It is formed by the union of the Biély Váh, rising in the High Tatra, and the Cierny Váh, rising in the Low Tatra, and flows SW into the Danube at Komárno. The Orava and Nitra rivers are its chief... Read more |
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Battle of Nashville 1864
Nashville, Battle of (1864).After losing the Battle of Atlanta, John B. Hood in November 1864 took the Confederacy's chief western army into Tennessee in a quixotic campaign to reverse the situation. Opposing him was George H. Thomas, who would have a very substantial force once he gathered the... Read more |
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Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie
Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie , 1921-2000, archbishop of Canterbury (1980-91). Bishop of St. Albans from 1970 to 1980, he was enthroned as the 102d archbishop of Canterbury in 1980, succeeding Donald Coggan. Runcie supported the ordination of women and other liberal Anglican positions and was... Read more |
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Confederacy
Confederacy name commonly given to the Confederate States of America (1861-65), the government established by the Southern states of the United States after their secession from the Union. (For the events leading up to secession and for the military operations of the Confederacy in the... Read more |
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The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H....
The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens. By William C...his edition of the memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett, one of the...Davis, and now The ... |
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The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens
The Union That Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens. By William C...generation. In fact, The Union That Shaped the Confederacy is ... |
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Historian Jack Davis will speak at Lincoln Dinner
...Confederate Government;" "Look Away: A History of the Confederate States of America" and "The Union that Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs and Alexander H. Stephens." Davis is also credited with writing ... |