Sports can bring groups of people together like few other activities. The same can certainly be said for baseball, America's pastime, in the Civil War era. Baseball was being played before the war started, it was played during the war, and it is still played today. Baseball, which went by many names in the time of the Civil War, helped keep the morale of the troops up for both the North and...
In hopes of assimilating ex-slaves into life as freedmen, the Freedmen’s Bureau worked to legalize marriages and establish standards for the marriages of freedmen. Such Marriage Rules were observed in South Carolina in 1866, when such matters were under the jurisdiction of the Freedmen’s Bureau. The Marriage Rules, contained six sections that, outlined “the parties eligible...
Migrants headed to the frontier in the nineteenth century were eager to work. Many, unable to immediately settle down and begin anew, worked on farms they encountered in order to make money. On the other side were the farmers who could charge these migrants room and board and pay them set wages to do the work around their farm. Franklin Osburn not only ran a farm but also a country store on his...
The Board of Immigration from the counties of Richmond, Westmoreland, Lancaster, and Northumberland assembled to compose their forthcoming pamphlet enticing immigrants to their regions of Virginia: ...our earnest desire is to attract to it and immigration not only from the northern and north-western states, but also from Canada and Europe. This immigration will bring the industry and capital requisite...
The Board of Immigration from the counties of Richmond, Westmoreland, Lancaster, and Northumberland assembled to compose their forthcoming pamphlet enticing immigrants to their regions of Virginia: ...our earnest desire is to attract to it and immigration not only from the northern and north-western states, but also from Canada and Europe. This immigration will bring the industry and capital requisite...
“I have often been asked what is the difference between puddings and custards, as, in the receipts usually give in cookery books, there seems but little distinction made. My classification is simply this: Puddings are baked without crusts and usually in deeper vessels; are generally served hot and eaten with sauces. Custards, on the contrary, are, as a general thing, baked in rich paste, and...
During the first of three visits to America in the fall of 1872, Emily Faithfull, an Englishwoman and women's rights activist described the problematic state of affairs that existed in the American government. During her stay, she closely followed the news articles published in the The New York Daily, The Boston Herald, and The Chicago Tribune, which all related stories...
R.T.W Duke received his degree in Political Economy from the University of Virginia on July 3 1873. He marveled at the signature of the Secretary of the Faculty, William Wertenbaker, the Faculty Chairman Charles L. Venable, and that of Professor of Political Economy Hokines. By earning his degree, Mr. Duke entered the ranks of college educated southerners that day in Charlottesville.
In the...
: By 1873, both Virginia and North Carolina had installed conservative, white-dominated state governments, the former having been “redeemed' in 1870; that is, white Virginians generally opposed to black rights controlled state government.' (Hartzell 135). The relative lack of Federal interference in these states' legislative actions and nearly nonexistent Republican influence...
During the rise of the middle class during 19th century America, there are few direct portals into what the life of a working citizen was like. However, there are a few. One such book is the diary of a German immigrant who worked as a whiskey merchant in Cincinnati and St. Louis.
Joseph Mersman born in a little village in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg in 1824, immigrated to the...