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Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1. | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: The Opening Battles. Volume 1., The opposing forces at Shiloh . (search)
Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler, Index. (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 36 (search)
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 6 : the schism.—1840 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 50 : last months of the Civil War .—Chase and Taney , chief-justices .—the first colored attorney in the supreme court —reciprocity with Canada .—the New Jersey monopoly.— retaliation in war.—reconstruction.—debate on Louisiana .—Lincoln and Sumner .—visit to Richmond .—the president's death by assassination.—Sumner's eulogy upon him. —President Johnson ; his method of reconstruction.—Sumner's protests against race distinctions.—death of friends. —French visitors and correspondents.—1864 -1865 . (search)
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4, Chapter 55 : Fessenden 's death.—the public debt.—reduction of postage.— Mrs. Lincoln 's pension.—end of reconstruction.—race discriminations in naturalization.—the Chinese .—the senator's record.—the Cuban Civil War .—annexation of San Domingo .—the treaties.—their use of the navy.—interview with the presedent.—opposition to the annexation; its defeat.—Mr. Fish .—removal of Motley .—lecture on Franco-Prussian War.—1869 -1870 . (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 1 (search)
Book I: the legends of the Northmen.
(A. D. 985-1008.)
These extracts are taken from two Icelandic works called Thattr Eireks Randa (the piece about Eirek the Red) and Graenlendinga Thatt (the piece about the Greenlanders). These passages were translated by J. Elliot Cabot, Esq., and were published in The Massachusetts Quarterly Review for March, 1849.
It is now the general belief of historians, that these legends are mainly correct; and that the region described as Vinland was a part of the North-American Continent.
Beyond this we do not know.
The poet Whittier has written thus of these early explorers, in his poem called The Norsemen:— What sea-worn barks are those which throw The light spray from each rushing prow? Have they not in the North Sea's blast Bowed to the waves the straining mast? Their frozen sails the low, pale sun Of Thule's night has shone upon; Flapped by the sea-wind's gusty sweep, Round icy drift and headland steep. Wild Jutland's wives and Lochlin's d
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 4 : (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.12 (search)