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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present — John Shaqi

The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the presentSherwood, John D.

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

Name: The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present
Author: Sherwood, John D.

Sherwood, John D.

United States -- History -- Humor

Striking Historical Contrasts of professed Virtue and
          cruel Enforcement.—The American Fetich; its strange,
          passionate Worship and armed Adoration.—The Freshet of
          Slavery traced from its small Beginnings.—Mr. Lincoln
          over its Ridges lands in Washington.—A Striking
          Announcement, and who it struck.—Of Seward, Cameron, and
          Chase.—A Naval Joke.—A Wry Fort makes Wry Faces.—An
          American Nightmare.—Watching with the Sleeper.—Sparing
          the Rod and getting the Ramrod.—Call for Seventy-five
          Thousand Ramrods.—Massachusetts Boys and Baltimore
          Hards.—Busses and Blunderbusses.—Few Office-Seekers, but
          many Gun-Holders in Washington in April, 1861.—The
          English Telescope and the Wonders it discovered.—A Dual
          View.—An Official Talk between two Lords.—A Proclamation
          to restrain Englishmen.—A Parallel.—War Materials,
          Forts, etc., generously given away by Loose-handed
          Custodians.—Twiggs inclined as Tree is bent.—Cotton
          Curtain before Washington; and a near View of it by
          General Mansfield.—Colonel Ellsworth.—Butler and
          Bethel.—Lyons in Missouri.—McClellan moves into
          Virginia; what he found.—A Wise Man flees when a real
          Man pursueth.—Bull’s Run and General Run.—A Discovery
          and Noise over it.—Stonewall Jackson and Praying
          Soldiers.—Piety and Powder.—A Drill-Ground near
          Washington.—General Lee’s First Kicks against the
          Pricks.—Du Pont at Port Royal.—Mason, Slidell, and
          Vigilant Friends.—John C. Breckenridge a striking
          Sign-Board.—War in the Mississippi Valley.—Kentucky and
          her Coy Ways.—A Spartan Leonidas and Greek
          Ulysses.—Christmas Eve, 1861.


                            DIVISION SECOND.

           COTTON MIXED. JANUARY 1, 1862, TO JANUARY 1, 1864.

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

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