Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Lee's Other Official Report My last entry was on General Robert E. Lee's Official Report to Adjutant General Samuel Cooper. This other...
Monday, May 18, 2009 Robert E. Lee's Official Report On the heals of my last post about Major General George Meade's Official Report for the Gettysburg...
http://www.archive. org/stream/ lifeadventuresof 00dacu Columbia, Kentucky robbery 120 LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF mounted their horses, and with a shout which sent...
"To me, if you're Indian, you're Indian. You don't have to put on your buckskin, beads, and feathers, and stuff like that." --Cecilia Mitchell, MOHAWK The...
"...in Tunkashila, there is no time. Everything moves in the blink of an eye. It's as fast as thought. So there is no speed there. There is no time in...
Lee Majors: I Couldn't Watch the Farrah Special http://www.tmz. com/2009/ 05/23/lee- majors-i- couldnt-watch- the-farrah- spec\ ial/ <http://www.tmz. com/2009/...
"If you listen close at night, you will hear the creatures of the dark, all of them sacred - the owls, the crickets, the frogs, the night birds - and you...
"The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures, and acknowledging unity with the...
"One of the things the old people taught me about the spirits was to never have a doubt." --Wallace Black Elk, LAKOTA The spirit world is sometimes hard to...
"The land is a sacred trust held in common for the benefit of the future of our nations." --Haida Gwaii - Traditional Circle of Elders The Creator made the...
"Humility is probably the most difficult virtue to realize." --Thomas Yellowtail, CROW Two definitions of humility are; one, being aware of one's own defects...
"Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air." --Archie Fire Lame Deer, LAKOTA The East, South, West, and...
"Sell a country? Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the Earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?" --Tecumseh,...
"You have to have a lot of patience to hear those old people talk, because when they talk, they talk about motivation, the feeling, the unsound that is...
"The Natural Law is the final and absolute authority governing E Te No Ha, the earth we call our Mother." --Traditional Circle of Elders There is no power...
1861 In northern Virginia, P.G.T. Beauregard assumed command of the Alexandria Line. He replaced Milledge Bonham who stayed on to lead the First Brigade....
JUNE EVENTS Wednesday, June 3 Summer Classic Movie Wednesdays Begin. Held weekly through August 26. At the Majestic Theater, 25 Carlisle Street. Each movie...
June 2, 1815 Philip Kearny is born Philip Kearny, one of the most promising generals in the Union army, is born in New York City. Raised in a wealthy family,...
1861 In Chicago, Stephen Douglas died at the age of forty-eight. Born in Vermont, the "Little Giant" had moved to Illinois in 1833. After serving as...
"IN THE BEGINNING were the Instructions... The Instruction was to live in a good way and be respectful to everybody and everything." --Vickie Downey,...
June 3, 1861 Senator Stephen A. Douglas dies ______ June 3, 1864 Union disaster at Cold Harbor On this day, Union General Ulysses S. Grant makes what he later...
All, Here is a Harpers from 1876....enjoy! ! Also Jefferson Davis was born today in 1808!! http://www.nytimes. com/learning/ general/onthisda y/harp/0603. html...