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LeConte Family Papers
Author | : LeConte family |
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Genre | : Geology |
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Correspondence, diaries, lecture notes and miscellaneous papers of various members of the LeConte family: Joseph, Joseph Nisbet and Caroline Eaton.
LeConte History and Genealogy
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Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1981 |
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Guillaume LeConte (b.ca. 1658/1659), immigrated from France (via England) to St. Christopher in the West Indies, and then to New Rochelle, New York about 1698. He married twice. Descendants lived in many of the United States.
Sketch of the LeConte Family of the Nonant Line in America
Author | : Emma LeConte |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
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Genre | : Huguenots |
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This volume of Thermofax copies traces the origins of the author's French Protestant ancestors in Rouen and elsewhere in northwestern France, particularly Guillaume LeConte (1659-1711), one of many Huguenots who migrated to New Rochelle (New York)
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Author | : Jefferson Davis |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080715895X |
"Being powerless to direct the current, I can only wait to see whither it runs," wrote Jefferson Davis to his wife, Varina, on October 11, 1865, five months after the victorious United States Army took him prisoner. Indeed, in the tumultuous years immediately after the Civil War, Davis found himself more acted upon than active, a dramatic change from his previous twenty years of public service to the United States as a major political figure and then to the Confederacy as its president and commander in chief. Volume 12 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy as he and his family fight to find their place in the world after the Civil War. A federal prisoner, incarcerated in a "living tomb" at Fort Monroe while the government decided whether, where, and by whom he should be tried for treason, Davis was initially allowed to correspond only with his wife and counsel. Released from prison after two hard years, he was not free from legal proceedings until 1869. Stateless, homeless, and without means to support himself and his young family, Davis lived in Canada and then Europe, searching for a new career in a congenial atmosphere. Finally, in November 1869, he settled in Memphis as president of a life insurance company and, for the first time in four years, had the means to build a new life.Throughout this difficult period, Varina Howell Davis demonstrated strength and courage, especially when her husband was in prison. She fought tirelessly for his release and to ensure their children's education and safety. Their letters clearly demonstrate the Davises' love and their dependence on each other. They both worried over the fate of the South and of family members and friends who had suffered during the war. Though disfranchised, Davis remained careful but not totally silent on the subject of politics. Even while in prison, he wrote without regret of his decision to follow Mississippi out of the Union and of his unswerving belief in the constitutionality of state rights and secession. Likewise, he praised all who supported the Confederacy with their blood and who, like himself, had lost everything.
Pioneers of American Landscape Design
Author | : Charles A. Birnbaum |
Publisher | : Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Women of the Civil War South
Author | : Marilyn Mayer Culpepper |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786416955 |
Presented here are excerpts from diaries and letters written by Southern women from different walks of life and areas of the country. Mary White, a fifteen-year-old girl, attempted to get through the blockade in Wilmington, North Carolina; Nancy Jones lived in fear amid the violence that rocked Missouri and saw her close friends and family murdered and her young son taken prisoner by the Yankees; Sarah Dandridge Duval and her family were refugees living near Richmond, Virginia. The book includes personal reminiscences from Union and Confederate women living in Winchester, Virginia, a town that reportedly changed hands 76 times during the war, and the reactions of Southern women to the surrender at Appomattox.
The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte
Author | : Joseph LeConte |
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Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Geologists |
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Joseph Le Conte (February 26, 1823 - July 6, 1901) was born in Liberty County, Georgia. He received an M.D. degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1845. After four years of practicing medicine, he entered Harvard University and studied natural history under Louis Agassiz. After graduating from Harvard, he taught at Oglethorpe University, Franklin College and South Carolina College. In 1869, Le Conte moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained the rest of his life, teaching mainly in geology. In 1870 he visited Yosemite Valley and became friends with John Muir. Concerned about resource exploitation, Le Conte and Muir with others founded the Sierra Club in 1892. Le Conte died while visiting Yosemite Valley. Le Conte and his wife Caroline Nisbet, had four children.