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Posts by Month: May, 2008

• Saturday the 31st
• David G. Farragut
  David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 to August 14, 1870), originally named James Glasgow Farragut, w...
• Friday the 30th
• Andrew Johnson, 17th US President
  Andrew Johnson was born December 29, 1808 in Raleigh, NC. When he was 14, his mother apprenticed him...
• Thursday the 29th
• Francis Marion: The Swamp Fox
  Born in 1732 in Georgetown, South Carolina, Francis Marion was a fragile child. His parents let him ...
• Wednesday the 28th
• The Trail of Tears
  “Nunna daul Tsuny” means “The Trail Where They Cried”. Better known as “The Trail of Tears”, the sol...
• Tuesday the 27th
• William Seward
  William Seward was born on May 16th, 1801 in Orange County, New York. Out of six children he was the...
• Monday the 26th
• Samuel Adams
  A proud Founding Father of the United States, Samuel Adams was a statesman, politician, political ph...
• Sunday the 25th
• John Jay
  While often overlooked amongst the other "founding fathers," John Jay was as important as any in est...
• Saturday the 24th
• Sammy Baugh
  "Slingin'" Sammy Baugh is often considered the first modern quarterback in professional football.&nb...
• Friday the 23rd
• Bobby Hull
  Known as the Golden Jet, Bobby Hull was one of the most electrifying hockey players in NHL history.&...
• Thursday the 22nd
• Bobby Orr
  Bobby Orr completely revolutionized the position of defense in the National Hockey League.  Bef...
• Wednesday the 21st
• Jim Thorpe
  Widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of the 20th Century, Jim Thorpe gained national atte...
• Tuesday the 20th
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debate
  The debates between Republican Abraham Lincoln and Democrat Stephen A. Douglas preceding an election...
• Monday the 19th
• Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction
  Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln, is often blamed by historians for the manifest failur...
• Sunday the 18th
• Lead Up to the Civil War
  With foreknowledge of how historical events actually turned out, discovering the actual motivations ...
• Saturday the 17th
• Non-Economics of Slavery
  Slavery is an unmitigated evil, as few today would disagree. To compel people to work on threat of d...
• Friday the 16th
• Unfunded Liabilities
  $45.5 trillion - that's how much the government has in unfunded liabilities on its balance sheet. Th...
• Thursday the 15th
• John Wilkes Booth
  Though the Civil War effectively ended with the surrender of Lee's army at Appomattox, there were st...
• Wednesday the 14th
• The Peninsula Campaign
  In 1862, Lincoln sought to use the proximity of the two warring nations' capitols to expedite an end...
• Tuesday the 13th
• The Second Battle of Bull Run
  The first battle at Manassas Junction, better known as the Battle of Bull Run, had resulted in an em...
• Monday the 12th
• The Fall of Atlanta
  After the failure of Lee's advance into Pennsylvania, the Confederate war effort was essentially fin...
• Sunday the 11th
• Vicksburg
  While the Union offensive found itself stalling repeatedly in Virginia, the western theater of the w...
• Saturday the 10th
• The Battle of Fort Sumter
  The Federal soldiers garrisoned around the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina found themselves in ...
• Friday the 9th
• Shiloh
  Throughout the first year of the Civil War, both sides saw the conflict as something that could be d...
• Thursday the 8th
• "Stonewall" Jackson
  If there's one thing you can point to that directed the course of the Civil War, it was the quality ...
• Wednesday the 7th
• Gettysburg
  If a single battle could be said to have made the difference in the Civil War, undoubtedly that batt...
• Tuesday the 6th
• The Battle of Hampton Roads
  War is always a time of great advancement in technology, and the Civil War was no different.  A...
• Monday the 5th
• Don Hutson
  Before there was Terrell Owens or Randy Moss, there was Don Hutson.  The first superstar wide r...
• Sunday the 4th
• Johnny Unitas
  One of the all-time great quarterbacks in NFL history, Johnny Unitas was instrumental in ushering in...
• Saturday the 3rd
• Francis Marion
  A legendary hero of the Revolutionary War, Francis Marion so confounded the British forces with his ...
• Friday the 2nd
• George Washington: The Early Years
  Perhaps the most famous of the United States' founding fathers, George Washington is legendary as th...
• Thursday the 1st
• Otto Graham
  In discussions of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, fans and supposed football experts often...