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TitleThe September 11th Detainees: A Review of the Treatment of Aliens Held on Immigration Charges in Connection with the Investigation of the September 11th Attacks

Date Created2003

DescriptionA review of the treatment of detainees under investigation after the September 11th attacks. Originally published by the Department of Justice Office of the Insector General in 2003.

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TitleReview of the Judge Advocate General of the proceedings, findings, and sentence of a general court martial held in the city of Washington, for the trial of Major General Fitz John Porter of the United States Volunteers

Date Created1863

DescriptionJoseph Holt, Judge Advocate General in a report to President Lincoln reviewed the court martial proceedings, findings and sentence in the trial of Major General Fitz John Porter charged with...

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TitleA sermon of the Mexican War

Date Created1848

DescriptionAn anti-war and anti-slavery sermon that condemned President James A. Polk for the hasty annexation of Texas territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers and criticized the large cost in money...

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TitleDid General Meade desire to retreat at the Battle of Gettysburg?

Date Created1883

DescriptionThis book examined discrepancies in the testimony and historical writings by Generals Pleasanton, Butterfield and Doubleday in which General Meade (1815-1872) is accused of desiring a retreat on July...

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TitleThe present crisis and its issues: an address delivered before the literary societies of Washington and Lee University

Date Created1872

DescriptionAfter an historic overview of power shifts and the demise of nations throughout history, the speaker points to the positioning of political parties in the U.S. during the post Civil War period of...

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TitleReport of Lieutenant General U. S. Grant, of the armies of the United States 1864-65

Date Created1865

DescriptionReport to the U.S. Secretary of War on the operations by the union armies of the U.S. under the command of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant from the time of his appointment in March, 1864 to the...

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TitleRecord of officers and men of New Jersey in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Vol. I: Compiled in the office of the Adjutant General

Date Created1876

DescriptionWilliam S. Stryker, newly appointed Adjutant General of New Jersey in 1867, was asked by Governor Marcus L. Ward to prepare an Official Register of the officers and men of New Jersey in the "War of...

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TitleHistory made visible: A synchronic chart and statistical tables of United States history by George E. Croscup, B.A.

Date Created1910-10-00

DescriptionThis book was an attempt by two authors to visually demonstrate in text and in a charted timeline, events, large and small, in U.S. political development and in the world during the prior four...

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TitlePersonal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan

AuthorSheridan, Philip Henry

Date Created1888-08-02

DescriptionSheridan's two autobiographical volumes explored life in the United States before, during and after the 'War of Rebellion.' Sheridan was born to immigrant Irish parents who moved with the westward...

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TitleThe black experience in America: The immigrant heritage of America

Date Created1993-05-00

DescriptionThis study described the character and culture the African-American people have created for themselves in the United States, first as slaves and then as a free people. It pointed to the many important...