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Bartlett Y. Malone was bornd and raised in North Carolina Caswell
County in the Year of our Lord 1838. And was Gradguated in the corn
field and tobacco patch: And inlisted in the war June the 18th
1861. And was a member of the Caswell Boys Company which was
comanded by Captian Michel (A. A. Mitchell): And was attached to
the 6th N. C. Regiment the 9th day of July '61 which was comanded
by Colonel Fisher who got kild in the first Manassas Battel which
was July 21, 1861. And then was comanded by Colonel W. D. Pender
untell the Seven Pines fight which was fought the 30th day of May
'61. And then Colonel W. D. Pender was promoted to Brigadier
General. And then Captain I. E. Avry (Avery) of Co. E was promoted
to Lieutenant Colonel who was in comand untell about the 10th of
October when he was promoted to Colonel and still staid in comand
untell the 2th day of July 1863 which was the day the fite was at
Gettysburg whar he was kild. And then Lieut: Colonel Webb taken
comand. Look hear Mr. Johnston did you ever go to Scolidge I dont
no: I guess you mean coledg dont you, Bans: Yes, that what I said
Scoledg: Oh go way from hear negro you dont no what you ar a talken
about Yes I do dat just what I said.
Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: An Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P.
Ray: By Mrs. Emma J. Ray & L.P. Ray; Introduction by Rev. C. E.
McReynolds 1926] & Memoirs of a Southerner 1840 -1923 By Edward
J. Thomas 1923]
The present volume is a simple record of the pioneer work done in
such departments up to date, by Mr. Nikola Tesla, in whom the world
has already recognized one of the foremost of modern electrical
investigators and inventors. No attempt whatever has been made here
to emphasize the importance of his researches and discoveries.
Great ideas and real inventions win their own way, determining
their own place by intrinsic merit. But with the conviction that
Mr. Tesla is blazing a patli that electrical development must
follow for many years to come, the compiler has endeavored to bring
together all that bears the impress of Mr. Tesla's genius, and is
worthy of preservation. Aside from its value as showing the scope
of his inventions, this volume may be of service as indicating the
range of his thought. There is intellectual profit in studying the
push and play of a vigorous and original mind. Although the lively
interest of the public in Mr. Tesla's work is perhaps of recent
growth, this volume covers the results of full ten years. It
includes his lectures, miscellaneous articles and discussions, and
makes note of all his inventions thus far known, particularly those
bearing on polyphase motors and the effects obtained with currents
of high potential and high frequency. It will be seen that Mr.
Tesla has ever pressed forward, barely pausing for an instant to
work out in detail the utilizations that have at once been obvious
to him of the new principles he has elucidated. Wherever possible
his own language has been employed. It may be added that this
volume is issued with Mr. Tesla's sanction and approval, and that
permission has been obtained for the re-publication in it of such
papers as have been read before various technical societies of this
country and Europe. Mr. Tesla has kindly favored the author by
looking over the proof sheets of the sections embodying his latest
researches.
OUR narrative begins in South Carolina, during the summer of 1780.
The arms of the British were at that time triumphant throughout the
colony. Their armies overran it. Charlestown, the chief city, had
stood a siege, and had fallen, after a protracted and honourable
defence. One-half of the military strength of the lower country,
then the most populous region, had become prisoners of war by this
disaster; and, for the present, were thus incapacitated from giving
any assistance to their brethren in arms. Scattered, crushed, and
disheartened by repeated failures, the whigs, in numerous
instances, hopeless of any better fortune, had given in their
adhesion to the enemy, and had received a pledge of British
protection. This protection secured them, as it was thought, in
their property and persons, and its conditions simply called for
their neutrality. Many of the more firm and honourably tenacious,
scorning all compromise with invasion, fled for shelter to the
swamps and mountains; and, through the former, all Europe could not
have traced their footsteps. In the whole state, at this period,
the cause of American liberty had no head, and almost as little
hope: all was gloomy and unpromising. Marion, afterward styled the
"Swamp Fox," and Sumter, the "Game Cock"--epithets aptly
descriptive of their several military attributes--had not yet
properly risen in arms, though both of them had been engaged
already in active and successful service. Their places of retreat
were at this time unknown; and, certainly, they were not then
looked to, as at an after period, with that anxious reliance which
their valour subsequently taught their countrymen to entertain.
Nothing, indeed, could be more deplorably prostrate than were the
energies of the colony.
Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman): Declassified FBI
Documents In 1976, the FBI's Chicago Field Office prepared a
summary which described the activities of the Weather Underground
Organization, also known as Weathermen. This organization described
itself as a revolutionary organization of communist men and women.
The FBI's analysis of its motivations, beliefs, and international
travels are outlined in this summary. This book also includes
manifestos issued by the Weather Underground Organization as part
of the volume, including The Weathermen Manifesto.
The Sword and the Distaff: or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of
the South, at the Close of the Revolution.
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