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CHAIRMEN of SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES [Table 5-3] 1789–Present
CHAIRMEN OF SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES [Table 5-3] 1789–present INTRODUCTION The following is a list of chairmen of all standing Senate committees, as well as the chairmen of select and joint committees that were precursors to Senate committees. (Other special and select committees of the twentieth century appear in Table 5-4.) Current standing committees are highlighted in yellow. The names of chairmen were taken from the Congressional Directory from 1816–1991. Four standing committees were founded before 1816. They were the Joint Committee on ENROLLED BILLS (established 1789), the joint Committee on the LIBRARY (established 1806), the Committee to AUDIT AND CONTROL THE CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE (established 1807), and the Committee on ENGROSSED BILLS (established 1810). The names of the chairmen of these committees for the years before 1816 were taken from the Annals of Congress. This list also enumerates the dates of establishment and termination of each committee. These dates were taken from Walter Stubbs, Congressional Committees, 1789–1982: A Checklist (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985). There were eleven committees for which the dates of existence listed in Congressional Committees, 1789–1982 did not match the dates the committees were listed in the Congressional Directory. The committees are: ENGROSSED BILLS, ENROLLED BILLS, EXAMINE THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF THE CIVIL SERVICE, Joint Committee on the LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, LIBRARY, PENSIONS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS, RETRENCHMENT, REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS, ROADS AND CANALS, and the Select Committee to Revise the RULES of the Senate. For these committees, the dates are listed according to Congressional Committees, 1789– 1982, with a note next to the dates detailing the discrepancy. -
Episode 110: Burnside Moves Toward Fredericksburg Http
Episode 110: Burnside Moves Toward Fredericksburg http://civilwar150.longwood.edu Upon hearing that George McClellan had been removed as head of the Army of the Potomac and replaced by Ambrose Burnside, Robert E Lee’s reaction was somewhat humorous but ultimately prophetic. Lee remarked that he was sad to see McClellan go, “for we always understood each other so well. I fear they may continue to make these changes until they find someone whom I don’t understand.” Abraham Lincoln would eventually find such a man in Ulysses S. Grant. As for Burnside, he was reluctant to take the reins of the Army of the Potomac and the events of the next month would show that Lee had little trouble understanding him. When Burnside took over command, the Union army was at Warrenton while Lee’s army was about 30 miles away at Culpeper. The two forces were separated by the Rappahannock River. Since Lincoln had been frustrated by McClellan’s lack of aggression, he pressed Burnside to do something and soon. On November 14, 1862, only five days after assuming command, Burnside presented his plan to Lincoln. His plan called for the Union army to move 40 miles east to Fredericksburg and cross the Rappahannock there. Having sidestepped the mass of the Confederates, Burnside’s troops would then move south and capture the Confederate capitol at Richmond. Lincoln liked the plan and approved it. When McClellan had moved on Richmond earlier in the year, he had moved most of his men south by boat to Fortress Monroe. This had left Washington, D.C. -
Tennessee Civil War Trails Program 213 Newly Interpreted Marker
Tennessee Civil War Trails Program 213 Newly Interpreted Markers Installed as of 6/9/11 Note: Some sites include multiple markers. BENTON COUNTY Fighting on the Tennessee River: located at Birdsong Marina, 225 Marina Rd., Hwy 191 N., Camden, TN 38327. During the Civil War, several engagements occurred along the strategically important Tennessee River within about five miles of here. In each case, cavalrymen engaged naval forces. On April 26, 1863, near the mouth of the Duck River east of here, Confederate Maj. Robert M. White’s 6th Texas Rangers and its four-gun battery attacked a Union flotilla from the riverbank. The gunboats Autocrat, Diana, and Adams and several transports came under heavy fire. When the vessels drove the Confederate cannons out of range with small-arms and artillery fire, Union Gen. Alfred W. Ellet ordered the gunboats to land their forces; signalmen on the exposed decks “wig-wagged” the orders with flags. BLOUNT COUNTY Maryville During the Civil War: located at 301 McGee Street, Maryville, TN 37801. During the antebellum period, Blount County supported abolitionism. In 1822, local Quakers and other residents formed an abolitionist society, and in the decades following, local clergymen preached against the evils of slavery. When the county considered secession in 1861, residents voted to remain with the Union, 1,766 to 414. Fighting directly touched Maryville, the county seat, in August 1864. Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler’s cavalrymen attacked a small detachment of the 2nd Tennessee Infantry (U.S.) under Lt. James M. Dorton at the courthouse. The Underground Railroad: located at 503 West Hill Ave., Friendsville, TN 37737. -
History of the Civil War on Stamps
History of the Civil war On stamps This album was created by Dan Pattison for the APS for free use in the public domain. American Philatelic Society©2020 www.stamps.org Events that led up to the start of the Civil War 1820 The Missouri Compromise was a United States statute devised by Henry Clay. It regulated slav- ery on the country’s western territories by prohibiting the practice in the former Lousiana Ter- ritory north of the parallel 36, degrees 30’ north except for the proposed state of Missouri. The compromise was agreed to by both the pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States Congress and passed as a law in 1820, under the presidency of James Monroe. The Missouri Compromise was effectively repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, submitted to Congress by Stephen A. Douglas in January 1854. The act opened Kansas Territory and Nebras- ka Territory to slavery and future admission of slave states by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through “popular sovereignty” whether they would allow slavery within each territory. Thus, the Kansas-Nebraska Act effectively undermine the prohibition of slavery in the north territory which had been established by the Missouri Compromise. This change was viewed by many abolitionist Northerners as an aggressive, expansionist maneuver by the slave-owning South, and led to the creation of the Republican Party. January 1831 William Lloyd Garrison co-founded a weekly anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, with his friend Isaac Knapp. In 1834 subscriptions number about 2000 with three-fourths of whom were blacks, Benefactors paid to have the newspaper distributed to influential statesmen and public officials. -
The Importance of Civil Military Relations in Complex Conflicts: Success And
THE UNIVERSITY OF HULL The Importance of Civil Military Relations in Complex Conflicts: Success and Failure in the Border States, Civil War Kentucky and Missouri, 1860-62. Being a Thesis submitted for the Degree of PhD, Department of Politics and International Studies In the University of Hull By Carl William Piper, BA (Lancs),MA June, 2011 Contents Introduction, p.1 Literary Review, p.60 The Border States in the Secession Crisis, p115 Case Study 1: Missouri April to September, 1861, p.160 Case Study 2: Kentucky April to September, 1861, p.212 Case Study 3: Forts Henry and Donelson, p.263 Case Study 4: The Perryville Campaign June to November, 1862, p.319 Conclusion, p.377 Bibliography, p.418 Introduction Despite taking place in the mid-nineteenth century the U.S. Civil War still offers numerous crucial insights into modern armed conflicts. A current or future federation or new ‘nation’ may face fundamental political differences, even irreconcilable difficulties, which can only be settled by force. In future states will inevitably face both separatist issues and polarised argument over the political development of their nation. It is probable that a civil war may again occur where the world may watch and consider forms of intervention, including military force, but be unwilling to do so decisively. This type of Civil War therefore remains historically significant, offering lessons for approaching the problems of strategy in a politically complex environment. Equally it offers insights into civil-military relations in highly complex conflicts where loyalties are not always clear. Success and ultimate triumph in the U.S. -
Ambrose Burnside, the Ninth Army Corps, and the Battle of Ps Otsylvania Court House Ryan T
Volume 5 Article 7 4-20-2015 Ambrose Burnside, the Ninth Army Corps, and the Battle of pS otsylvania Court House Ryan T. Quint University of Mary Washington Follow this and additional works at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gcjcwe Part of the Military History Commons, and the United States History Commons Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Quint, Ryan T. (2015) "Ambrose Burnside, the Ninth Army Corps, and the Battle of potsS ylvania Court House," The Gettysburg College Journal of the Civil War Era: Vol. 5 , Article 7. Available at: https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/gcjcwe/vol5/iss1/7 This open access article is brought to you by The uC pola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College. It has been accepted for inclusion by an authorized administrator of The uC pola. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Ambrose Burnside, the Ninth Army Corps, and the Battle of pS otsylvania Court House Abstract The ghfi ting on May 12, 1864 at Spotsylvania Court House evokes thoughts of the furious combat at the Bloody Angle. However, there is another aspect of the fighting on May 12, that is, incidentally, at another salient. The then-independent command of Ambrose Burnside’s Ninth Corps spent the day fighting on the east flank of the Mule Shoe, and charging against the Confederate right flank at Heth’s Salient. This paper has two parts: the first half analyzes the complexities and problems of Burnside’s return to the Eastern Theater since his disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, starting in April 1864 and culminating with the opening moves of the Overland Campaign. -
81.1963.1 Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside 1824-1881 Union County Marker Text Review Report 09/03/2014
81.1963.1 Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside 1824-1881 Union County Marker Text Review Report 09/03/2014 Marker Text Born in Liberty, Indiana, Ambrose E. Burnside invented the breech-loading rifle in 1856. Commanded a brigade at First Bull Run and the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg. He was commander of the Army of Ohio when Morgan's Raiders were captured. Report This marker was placed under review because its file lacked both primary and secondary documentation. IHB researchers were able to locate primary sources to support the claims made by the marker except for the phrase “Army of the Ohio” to describe the men he commanded when Morgan’s Raiders were captured. The following report expands on the marker points and addresses various omissions, including Burnside’s war-time order suppressing various newspapers and orators and his service as governor and senator from Rhode Island. Ambrose E. Burnside was born in Liberty, Indiana on May 23, 1824.1 He attended West Point Military Academy from 1843-1847 and graduated eighteenth in his class of thirty-eight.2 Burnside, who had been conferred the rank of second lieutenant upon his graduation in the spring of 1847, joined his unit, Company C of the 3rd U.S. Artillery, in Mexico City just after the official battles of the Mexican War had ended. He remained in the Mexican capital until the peace treaty was signed in the spring of 1848 and was then transferred to Fort Adams in Rhode Island. A year later, he returned to Company C, 3rd U.S. -
Spalsbury, Edgar, Portrait Album
http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6k403909 No online items Finding Aid for the Edgar Spalsbury Portrait Album C012172 Finding aid prepared by B. McCallick Society of California Pioneers 300 Fourth Street San Francisco, CA, 94107-1272 (415) 959-1849 [email protected] December 1, 2010 Finding Aid for the Edgar C012172 1 Spalsbury Portrait Album C012172 Title: Spalsbury, Edgar, Portrait Album Identifier/Call Number: C012172 Contributing Institution: Society of California Pioneers Language of Material: English Physical Description: 1.0 volume1 album (176 photographs) Date: circa 1875 Abstract: This album contains a collection of portraits of famous figures, including actors and actresses, Civil War generals, and politicians. Language of Materials note: English Location note: P-4G:B001467 (C012172) The Society of California Pioneers. San Francisco, California. creator: Spalsbury, Edgar, 1835-1897 Biography Edgar Spalsbury was born on a farm in Jefferson County, New York in 1835. He grew to become a lawyer at the age of twenty. During the Civil War, Spalsbury served as a captain in Company C, 35th New York Infantry, and fought in the battle of Bull Run. After the war, Spalsbury moved west in search a milder climate for his frail health. In 1875, after spending some time in Chicago, (where according to his nephew George E. Parker, he served as a librarian) Spalsbury moved to Santa Cruz, California, establishing a law practice in 1876. Successful and popular among the citizens of Santa Cruz, he was elected Justice of the Peace and dubbed "Judge" by friends and supporters. He died in 1897. Repository Society of California Pioneers, 300 4th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. -
June 2020 Margaret Stewart & the Birth of the Red Douglases, 1389
VOL 47 ISSUE 2 June 2020 IN THIS ISSUE PAGE WHAT TO SEE 2 OFFICERS & REGENTS 4 President’s Comments 5 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 6 Stand-off at Tantallon Castle: Margaret Stewart & the Birth of the Red Douglases, 1389 by Dr. Callum Watson 13 Tantallon Castle by Ian Douglas 17 Scotland and the Confederate States of America by Colin MacDonald 21 CDSNA Septs & Allied Families: Harkness, Inglis, Kilgore 24 NEWS from ALL OVER 31 2021 CDSNA GMM INFORMATION UPDATE BACK COVER – List of the Sept & Allied Family Names Recognized by CDSNA J u n e 2 0 2 0 Dubh Ghlase P a g e | 2 NEWSLETTER FOUNDER Gilbert F. Douglas, JR. MD (deceased) OFFICERS REGENTS President UNITED STATES INDIANA OKLAHOMA Jim & Sandy Douglas Jody Blaylock Chuck Mirabile ALABAMA - Gilbert F. Douglas III 765-296-2710 405-985-9704 7403 S. Parfet Ct. 205-222-7664 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Littleton, CO 80127-6109 IOWA – Regent wanted for the OREGON (North) Phone: 720-934-6901 ALASKA --- Regent wanted Quad City area Carol Bianchini [email protected] 971-300-8593 ARIZONA KANSAS --- Regent wanted for Wichita [email protected] Barbara J. Wise area Vice-President 520-991-9539 OREGON (South) – Regent wanted [email protected] KENTUCKY --- Co-Regents wanted Tim Tyler Elizabeth Martin PENNSYLVANIA -- Regent and/or 7892 Northlake Dr #107 ARKANSAS – Co-Regent Wanted 931-289-6517 Co-Regents wanted Diana Kay Stell [email protected] Huntington Beach, CA 92647 501-757-2881 SOUTH CAROLINA Co-Regent Phones: 1-800-454-5264 [email protected] LOUISIANA – Regent/Co-Regent wanted George W. -
The Interviews
Jeff Schechtman Interviews December 1995 to April 2017 2017 Marcus du Soutay 4/10/17 Mark Zupan Inside Job: How Government Insiders Subvert the Public Interest 4/6/17 Johnathan Letham More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers 4/6/17 Ali Almossawi Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier 4/5/17 Steven Vladick Prof. of Law at UT Austin 3/31/17 Nick Middleton An Atals of Countries that Don’t Exist 3/30/16 Hope Jahren Lab Girl 3/28/17 Mary Otto Theeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health 3/28/17 Lawrence Weschler Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists 3/28/17 Mark Olshaker Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs 3/24/17 Geoffrey Stone Sex and Constitution 3/24/17 Bill Hayes Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me 3/21/17 Basharat Peer A Question of Order: India, Turkey and the Return of the Strongmen 3/21/17 Cass Sunstein #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media 3/17/17 Glenn Frankel High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic 3/15/17 Sloman & Fernbach The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Think Alone 3/15/17 Subir Chowdhury The Difference: When Good Enough Isn’t Enough 3/14/17 Peter Moskowitz How To Kill A City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood 3/14/17 Bruce Cannon Gibney A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America 3/10/17 Pam Jenoff The Orphan's Tale: A Novel 3/10/17 L.A. -
HOW to MAKE CLIMATE COVERAGE PERSONAL, RELEVANT, and URGENT Contributors the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
REPORTS WINTER 2020 NIEMAN REPORTS NIEMAN REPORTS VOL. 74 NO. 1 The Nİeman Foundatİon for Journalİsm TO PROMOTE AND Harvard Unİversİty ELEVATE THE STANDARDS One Francİs Avenue OF JOURNALISM Cambrİdge, Massachusetts 02138 VOL. NO. 74 1 WINTER 2020 REAL COVERING THE CLIMATE CRISIS THE CLIMATE COVERING AND PRESENT THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY HARVARD AT THE NIEMAN FOUNDATION DANGER HOW TO MAKE CLIMATE COVERAGE PERSONAL, RELEVANT, AND URGENT Contributors The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University www.niemanreports.org Michael Blanding Gina McCarthy (page James Painter (page (page 8) is a journalist 16) is president and 18) is a research and author with work CEO of the Natural associate at Oxford’s that has appeared in Resources Defense Reuters Institute for The New York Times, Council. She is a the Study of Journalism Wired, The New former administrator and a senior teaching Ann Marie Lipinski Republic, Slate, and of the Environmental associate at the other publications. Protection Agency. University of Oxford. James Geary Jan Gardner Eryn M. Carlson Shannon Osaka John D. Sutter (page Tim Rogers (page 26), Dan Zedek (page 18) has an MPhil 22), a 2019 Knight a 2014 Nieman Fellow in Geography at the Visiting Nieman Fellow, and former Central One Francis Avenue, Cambridge, University of Oxford. is a climate analyst and America reporter, is a MA 02138-2098, 617-496-6308, Her journalism has contributor for CNN. producer and corresp- [email protected] appeared in Grist, the He also is an Explorer ondent for Univision’s LA Review of Books, with the National “Real America with Copyright 2020 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. -
Military History of Kentucky
THE AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES Military History of Kentucky CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED Written by Workers of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Kentucky Sponsored by THE MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF KENTUCKY G. LEE McCLAIN, The Adjutant General Anna Virumque Cano - Virgil (I sing of arms and men) ILLUSTRATED Military History of Kentucky FIRST PUBLISHED IN JULY, 1939 WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION F. C. Harrington, Administrator Florence S. Kerr, Assistant Administrator Henry G. Alsberg, Director of The Federal Writers Project COPYRIGHT 1939 BY THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF KENTUCKY PRINTED BY THE STATE JOURNAL FRANKFORT, KY. All rights are reserved, including the rights to reproduce this book a parts thereof in any form. ii Military History of Kentucky BRIG. GEN. G. LEE McCLAIN, KY. N. G. The Adjutant General iii Military History of Kentucky MAJOR JOSEPH M. KELLY, KY. N. G. Assistant Adjutant General, U.S. P. and D. O. iv Military History of Kentucky Foreword Frankfort, Kentucky, January 1, 1939. HIS EXCELLENCY, ALBERT BENJAMIN CHANDLER, Governor of Kentucky and Commander-in-Chief, Kentucky National Guard, Frankfort, Kentucky. SIR: I have the pleasure of submitting a report of the National Guard of Kentucky showing its origin, development and progress, chronologically arranged. This report is in the form of a history of the military units of Kentucky. The purpose of this Military History of Kentucky is to present a written record which always will be available to the people of Kentucky relating something of the accomplishments of Kentucky soldiers. It will be observed that from the time the first settlers came to our state, down to the present day, Kentucky soldiers have been ever ready to protect the lives, homes, and property of the citizens of the state with vigor and courage.