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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 14 0 Browse Search
Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months at the White House 10 0 Browse Search
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 4 0 Browse Search
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Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 2 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
, in the person of Jack Downing, confidant of Jackson, David Ross Locke's Petroleum V. Nasby, confidant of Andrew Johnson. He was the first in America, as Finley Petark Twain: Henry Wheeler Shaw, Josh Billings (1818-85); David Ross Locke, Petroleum V. Nasby (1833-88); and Charles Farrar Browne, Artemus Ward (834-67). The firstng. In 1861 he began a series of letters in his paper over the signature Petroleum V. Nasby. These letters were supposed to come from a pastor of the New Dispensation with Copperhead sympathies. Shortly afterwards Nasby settled in Confedrit X Roads, Kentucky, where he drank whiskey, and preached to negro-hating Democrats of tham. After the war he received a commission as postmaster from Andrew Johnson. Nasby is a type of the backwoods preacher, reformer, workingman, postmaster, and chroexpected as news of the battles, and universally read by the Federal soldiers. Nasby was not only a humorist but he was a great force in carrying on the reconstruct
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Pearl, the, 369 Peaslee, Mary, 42 Pencillings by the way, 187 Pennsylvania Gazette, the, 178 Pennsylvania journal, the, 178 Pennsylvania Packet, the, 178 Pentucket, 48 Percival, James Gates, 167 Percy, Bishop, 3 Perils of Pearl Street, the, 152 Perry, Bliss, 263 n. Persius, 10 Peterkin papers, 408 Peter Parley. See Goodrich, S. G. Peter Rugg, the Missing man, 369 n. Peterson, Charles J., 168 Peterson, Henry, 281 Peter the Great, 136 Petroleum V. Nasby. See Locke, D. R. Pfaff's restaurant, 268 Phelps, Austen, 208 Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. See Ward, Elizabeth S. P. Philanthropist, the, 45 Philip II, 129, 136, 139, 146 Philo Judaeus, 211 Philosophy of history, the, 4 Philosophy of the short story, the, 388 Phoenixiana, 156 Physiology of verse, the, 229 Picayune, 184 Picket-Guard, The, 280 Pierce, Franklin, 19, 21 Pierce, Miss, 215 Pike, Albert, 290, 292, 298, 303 Pindar, 2, 3, 238 Pinkney