Physically brave to the point of recklessness, thi... ...d their military counterparts during the American Civil War .Like Twilight Sparkle, U.S. Maj. Gen. Henry Jacks... ...derstanding of the challenge.At the outset of the war , Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott was the senior general i... ...tates Army. He was 74 and...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/14/Ponies-and-Their-Matching-Civil-War-Generals/Jefferson Davis, the first and last President of the Confederate States of America, advocated a paternalistic approach to slaveholding. He believed that white rule over black slaves was beneficial and benevolent toward b...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/11/Sketch-of-the-Emancipation-of-Jefferson-Daviss-Slaves/The following is an article from Uncle John's Curi... ...ing on the American side during the Revolutionary War . Born into slavery, Betty, her sister, and all th... ...chusetts were still fighting in the Revolutionary War . These people took their freedoms seriously. And... ...a slave named Quock Walker, who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/29/Betty-Freemans-Day-in-Court/During the American Civil War , the United States Navy blockaded Southern ports.... ...the Wright brothers flew, Powers tried to build a warplane :Although balloons were being effectively used for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/19/The-Confederate-Helicopter/The following is an article from The Annals of Imp... ..., a brash young ethnobotanist violates the civil rights of an elderly woman, a prawnbroker, depriv... ...ski went on to write other minor works, including War and Peace and the latter-day sequels: Love...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/17/Crime-and-PunishmentA-Personal-Meditation/A stormtrooper manages to infiltrate a rebel unit,... ...aniru184 took a picture of his brother crashing a Civil War re-enactment. Link -via Geekosystem
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/09/These-are-NOT-the-Rebels-Youre-Looking-For/The following is an article from the book Uncle Jo... ...gle in New York City. THe next year, she took the civil service exam and scored very high -high enough to... ...doctorate in public health from the school. World War I strained the U.S. economy, and the poor got poo... ...n international charity asked h...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/08/The-Amazing-Dr-Baker/Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedi... ...eezen. Visit Eddie at his website.* Lincoln had a wart on his right cheek, a scar on his thumb from an a... ...Lincoln had a substitute fight for him during the Civil war . He was not a paid substitute. J. Summerfield Sta... ...at Lincoln felt the presi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/27/A-Few-Things-You-Might-Not-Have-Known-About-Abraham-Lincoln/During the early 1940s, 70,000 people worked at th... ...omb. Most of the workers were women, recruited as civil servants to aid the war effort. And they didn't know anything about the j... ...b they were doing until they started doing it.The civil servant was given only one...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/21/The-Women-Behind-the-Bomb/The funeral industry wasn't always like it is toda... ...y American practice. Embalming started during the Civil War , and soon after, anybody could be embalmed, and i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/18/Giving-Death-a-Makeover/
