Personal Recollections of Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil WarWerner Company, 1897 - 591 pages |
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... moved from Massachusetts to Pomfret , Connecticut . Thence they made a settlement at what is now the town of Petersham in central Massachusetts , when that was the extreme frontier . This settlement was once abandoned because of the ...
... moved from Massachusetts to Pomfret , Connecticut . Thence they made a settlement at what is now the town of Petersham in central Massachusetts , when that was the extreme frontier . This settlement was once abandoned because of the ...
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... moved to the city of Mexico , and the other marched to Canada . Partly owing to the enormous burden of an un- precedented debt , which furnished one of the strongest arguments against such policy , partly because the people had already ...
... moved to the city of Mexico , and the other marched to Canada . Partly owing to the enormous burden of an un- precedented debt , which furnished one of the strongest arguments against such policy , partly because the people had already ...
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... moved westward along the region of the Great Lakes . A little later they began to occupy the rich prairies of the Mississippi Valley , and to - day their remote descendants have transformed the treeless plains of the central West , and ...
... moved westward along the region of the Great Lakes . A little later they began to occupy the rich prairies of the Mississippi Valley , and to - day their remote descendants have transformed the treeless plains of the central West , and ...
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... moved to the Rocky Mountains in 1853 , and the expedition of Captain John Pope of the U. S. Engineers penetrated to the Llano Estacado in 1856. It was through Council Bluffs that the little band of Mormons , under Brigham Young , passed ...
... moved to the Rocky Mountains in 1853 , and the expedition of Captain John Pope of the U. S. Engineers penetrated to the Llano Estacado in 1856. It was through Council Bluffs that the little band of Mormons , under Brigham Young , passed ...
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... moved around and seated themselves opposite Keokuk . Black Hawk and his son showed in their looks their dejection and humiliation , for they felt that after years of rivalry between him and the younger chief , the hour of triumph for ...
... moved around and seated themselves opposite Keokuk . Black Hawk and his son showed in their looks their dejection and humiliation , for they felt that after years of rivalry between him and the younger chief , the hour of triumph for ...
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