[Homer_J_Simpson]

Many excerpts again today. I will ping the class to this on and the last one, which will include a list of all of them.

Continued from October 29 (reply #9).

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Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury

[Homer_J_Simpson]

About the Bruce Catton excerpt (reply #3) I should have mentioned, the letter from Thomas Drayton to Gov. Gist about the 10,000 smooth bore muskets was written on this date.

[colorado tanker]

We have had some real stinkers in the last 100 years, but I am still of the opinion that our worst President was Buchanan. Not only did he do nothing to head off a civil war, actions taken during his administration deeply angered the North and rallied it to the Republican Party.