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3) The Civil Tenure act: speech of William Sprague in the Senate of the United States, March 24, 1869
Author
Publisher
Gray & Green
Pub. Date
1869.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1852
Language
English
Description
This collection contains original manuscript writings of relating to the experience of Rhode Islanders serving in the Civil War. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence between Rhode Island soldiers and loved ones at home. Also included is correspondence of Charlotte F. Dailey who inspected Union convalescent hospitals and reported on the experience of Rhode Island troops. Also included is a field diary for the year 1862 written by Private...
Author
Pub. Date
1639
Language
English
Description
The collection consists of miscellaneous items collected by Daniel Berkeley Updike, chiefly letters and documents relating to American history, many of which specifically relate to the federal period and New England history. Included are autograph letters of many notable individuals and political and military figures.
The collection is organized alphabetically by correspondent. A card catalog index is also available in the Special Collections Reading...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1956.
Language
English
Description
This is the biography of three of the most fascinating personalities of Civil War America. They were Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a man obsessed with the ambition to become President; Chase's daughter Kate, who was Washington's reigning beauty and America's most influential political hostess; and Kate's husband William Sprague, the young millionaire Senator from Rhode Island.
Chase...
Author
Publisher
Authorhouse
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"In American political history there has never been a woman who had been more active in the formative years of this republic than Katherine Chase Sprague. Her family, her love of her father, and the political skills that her father had taught her indirectly affected everyone who ever came in contact with her. She didn't come from a rich family, but she rapidly acquired the finest tastes that her newly acquired husband could afford. Katherine ran...
