Sentences with phrase «letters by a civil war»

New York's other senator, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, spoke at the inauguration itself, quoting at length from a letter by a Civil War soldier.

The correspondence, published in 1994, is the «only known collection of letters by a Civil War woman soldier,» accoring to The Washington Post.

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Reviewed by George McKenna In the preface to While God Is Marching On, Steven E. Woodworth, an associate professor of history at Texas Christian University, recalls that Ken and Ric Burns» 1990 documentary on the Civil War quoted freely from the letters of Civil War soldiers without revealing....

When Ken Burns produced his much acclaimed series of public television shows on the Civil War, one of the most powerful moments for many listeners was the reading of a letter written by Major Sullivan Ballou of the Second Rhode Island regiment to his wife, Sarah.

* In a lesson on the Choices and Commitments: The Soldiers at Gettysburg, students gain new insights into the complexities of the Civil War by reading letters from three soldiers and learning the surprising reasons that each chose to fight for the North or the South.

The letter is one of a collection of handwritten letters penned by Civil War soldiers that chronicle their experiences in battle and the hardships they faced from 1861 through 1865.

Here, private utterance becomes part of a larger choral arrangement as the collection widens to include erasures of The Declaration of Independence and the correspondence between slave owners, a found poem comprised of evidence of corporate pollution and accounts of near - death experiences, a sequence of letters written by African Americans enlisted in the Civil War, and the survivors» reports of recent immigrants and refugees.

The only catch is that, other than a couple of letters written by Bracegirdle to his wife as he lies dying from wounds inflicted during a English Civil War battle, the rest of his correspondence is encrypted in a deviously difficult code.

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004) In 1956, Reverend John Ames writes a letter to his son — about his father, a pacifist preacher, and his grandfather, a minster who fought in the Civil War as an abolitionist.

A complex piece in Zaatari's overall oeuvre, Time Capsule not only serves as a sort of sequel to the artist's earlier video In This House (2005), for which he unearthed a letter buried by leftist militants in 1991 (right after the Lebanese Civil War ended), it also links the experience of the Arab Image Foundation, which Zaatari co-founded in 1997 (he recently resigned from the organization's board, which inspired the time capsule project), to that of Beirut's National Museum, where dOCUMENTA (13)'s team found the wrecked objects that are now on view with Adnan's painting tool in the rotunda of the Fridericianum.

Hearn publicly left the bitcoin community in January 2016 when he published an open letter entitled The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment in which he described bitcoin as «a payments network that: couldn't move your existing money,» «had wildly unpredictable fees that were high and rising fast,» «allowed buyer to take back payments they'd made after walking out of shops, by simply pressing a button,» «is suffering large backlogs and flaky payments,» «which is controlled by China,» «and in which the companies and people building it were in open civil war.»