First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed. To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by reply or freepmail.
* “The state of things in Utah has during the past month occupied a large share of public attention. In order to check the treasonable designs of the Mormon leaders, it has been determined by the President to send a considerable military force to this Territory, under the command of General Harney. Brigham Young is to be removed from his post as Governor . . .”
Report on Kansas Governor Walker’s address of May 24.
New York wants to move their Quarantine establishment from Staten Island to Sandy Hook, in New Jersey, but the legislature of that state forbids it. Meanwhile, a Staten Island mob burned the buildings there meant to temporarily house the hospital.
The Burdell murder trial ended with no convictions.
Federal authorities attempted to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act in Ohio and were vigorously resisted by Ohioans.
Marines were called to quell a battle between Democratic and American Party combatants in Washington. Six were killed and 15 or 20 injured.
Pearls discovered in Patterson, NJ.
Dred Scott has been emancipated.
Insurrection by Mexican Catholic clergy suppressed. Province of Sonora invaded by Californians led by Col. Crabbe.
“The enterprise of Walker in Nicaragua has at length come to an end, for the present at least.” A lengthy account of same follows.
Current events end with news of Europe and The East. Treaty negotiations between Great Britain and Persia included a battle costing 10 British and 200 Persian lives.
Additional U.S. troops have reached China. “Seventeen piratical junks were destroyed by boats from the steamer Hornet.”
And so on.
BookMarking
The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas
Continued from June 6 (reply #10).
Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era
Continued from April 18 (Reply #64)
Although he had no idea that such fortune awaited him when he next rode away, Lee was never to see Camp Cooper again. Arriving at Fort Mason in time for the assembly of a court on July 15, he had been there only eight days when an express arrived with orders to proceed at once to San Antonio and to take command of the regiment, as Colonel Johnston had been called to Washington by the War Department. Lee reached San Antonio on the 28th and assumed command the next day. Life was now much more pleasant. San Antonio was immeasurably a more acceptable post than poor Camp Cooper. Instead of a tent there were quarters, a whole house, indeed, which Lee occupied on August 1. He found friends there, too among them the family of Major R.H. Chilton, paymaster, who was to serve later as his chief of staff.
Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee, an abridgement by Richard Harwell
Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909
The “Dead Rabbits” were a gang? We’re they made of entirely pregnant women?