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In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.
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In spring 1861, Carnegie was appointed by Scott, who was now Assistant Secretary of War in charge of military transportation, as Superintendent of the Military Railways and the Union Government's telegraph lines in the East.
As the long winter of 1861 turned into spring, that old flag meant something new.
In the spring of 1861, he returned to a nation in the throes of the Civil War.
In the spring of 1861, Robert Cravens of Chattanooga began mining saltpeter, the main ingredient of gunpowder, at Nickajack Cave.
Early in the spring of 1861, Mathews was commissioned a captain in the Confederate Army and given orders to organize a company of soldiers from among sympathetic Native Americans, specifically, the Quapaw.
The first rolling mill was built between the spring of 1861 and the summer of 1863, with the first railroad rails being rolled on September 26.
In July 1860 this happened, and in the spring of 1861 the estates were once more at open odds with the Danish government.
Nelson returned to Albion in the spring of 1861, when the American Civil War had started.
As the long winter of 1861 turned into spring, that old flag meant something new.
In late spring 1861 Union troops from Ohio moved into western Virginia with the primary strategic goal of protecting the B & O Railroad.
While business had been slow or depressed in spring 1861 because of war fears and Southern boycotts, by fall business was hiring again, offering young men jobs that were an alternative way to help win the war.
From 1858 until the spring of 1861 he held the office of clerk and master of the court of equity of Rockingham County.
When the Civil War broke out in spring 1861, Belknap joined Union Army and was eventually promoted Brevet Maj. General in 1865 for his gallantry during Maj. Gen. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign earlier in 1864.
The winter and spring floods of 1861 and 1862 ruined their lands, and the Bradleys moved to Nevada where he worked in the cattle business in Elko County.
He then resigned from the U. S. Army, in the spring of 1861 after Virginia seceded from the Union.
The modern history of the division originated in the spring of 1861 with the 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry and the 2nd Regiment, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry.
From late 1853 until the outbreak of the Civil War in the spring of 1861, Lieutenant Crosby served in the sloops of war, of the Brazil Squadron, and, and on board the receiving ship at Philadelphia.
In the spring of 1861, with the Southern states leaving the Union and Confederate forces mounting a siege at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Gideon Welles summoned Ward to Washington to plan for a relief expedition for Sumter.
It is unclear as to whether Yang was still funding the Corps in the late fall of 1860, but upon Ward's return in the spring of 1861, Ward was able to attract desired elements of the Corps back to his employ.
All of these general-officer assignments were in the spring and summer of 1861.
The song was premiered by lyricist Harry McCarthy during a concert in Jackson, Mississippi, in the spring of 1861 and performed again in September of that same year at the New Orleans Academy of Music for the First Texas Volunteer Infantry regiment mustering in celebration.
Beginning in 1860 Huger commanded the Charleston Arsenal, holding the post until resigning in the spring of 1861.
From late 1857 until after the outbreak of the American Civil War in the spring of 1861, Gwin was an officer of the steamer Saranac and sloop of war Vandalia, both in the Pacific, and of the steam frigate Susquehanna in the Mediterranean.
In the spring of 1861, a year before achieving fame as a Confederate general, Robert E. Lee was commanding a small force in western Virginia.
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In the spring of 1729, the Fortuna, which had sailed round the Kamchatka Peninsula to bring supplies to the Lower Kamchatka Post, now returned to Bolsheretsk ; and shortly after, so did the Gabriel.
Ragnhild died shortly after her father, and the young king Harald fell sick and died the next spring.
In the spring of 1955, shortly before he left Union for the year, Buechner met his wife Judith at a dance given by some family friends.
He filmed his part in the spring of 1969, and shortly thereafter filmed his final film role, also for Adamson, in The Female Bunch.
Firehose was formed in the spring of 1986 shortly after the accidental death of D. Boon brought an end to Watt and Hurley's previous band, Minutemen.
The flowers are small single-sex ( monoecious ), the female flowers borne in pairs, the male flowers wind-pollinating catkins, produced in spring shortly after the new leaves appear.
Herodotus confirms the possibility that the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis were fought shortly after the Olympic Games of that year, and only a few months after these events: " On approach of spring, the sun suddenly quit his seat in the heavens, and disappeared " when Xerxes left Sardis, a few weeks or months before crossing over to Greece.
However, in spring 2006, he left the show because of conflicts with ABC, and shortly afterward the program was canceled.
It takes place towards the end of the third quarter, shortly before the spring break, after which the matriculation examinations commence.
The drakes court the hens in the winter quarters ; pairs form shortly before and during the spring migration.
The following spring, shortly before Elephunk came out, Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine offered Ferguson a permanent spot to take over vocal duties and fill the void left by background singer Kim Hill's departure in 2000.
The courtship begins shortly after emergence in early spring.
Baldwin IV died in spring 1185, shortly after ordering a formal public crown-wearing by Baldwin V at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, at which Balian of Ibelin carried the child-king, to signify that Isabella's family accepted his claim.
Day came under fire very shortly after his disappointing performance in the 2000 election, and soon came under the fire from members of his own caucus, and through the spring of 2001, several members of the Alliance resigned their shadow cabinet seats, the most high-profile resignation being that of deputy leader Deborah Grey.
VoThe July 1971 electoral law lengthened the time between elections from four to five years ( 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, and so forth ) and designated that they take place in the fall, so that each election comes shortly after the party congress in the spring.
The flowers are small catkins which appear shortly after the leaves in spring.
The flowers are 1. 5 cm diameter, with five creamy-white petals ; they are produced shortly before the leaves in early spring, and are hermaphroditic and insect-pollinated.
In the spring of 1757, shortly after William had returned home, Mylne accompanied the diplomat Richard Phelps and antiquarian Matthew Nulty on a tour of Sicily.
In the spring of 1917, shortly after Woodrow Wilson had been inaugurated for his second term as President and war with Germany had been declared, women from the National Woman's Party ( founded in 1913 by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns ) began picketing the White House and the Capitol in support of an amendment that would guarantee women's suffrage.
In spring 1969, shortly before Morgan's retirement, Mexican-American and African-American student organizations presented a list of demands to university officials primarily urging increased recruitment of minority students and employees.
It is worth noting that although the historical record is lacking, Rossetti apparently began working at Highgate Penitentiary for fallen women shortly after composing " Goblin Market " in the spring of 1859.
In the spring of 2004, a disgruntled staff member accessed The Tartans servers and removed the code for The Tartan's Web site, along with the content of the site, shortly after leaving a meeting in which the editor-in-chief failed to nominate him for a contributing editor position.
He was traded to the Cincinnati Reds shortly before the start of spring training for the 1932 season.
The timing of the rut for different species depends on the length of their gestation period ( length of pregnancy ), usually occurring so the young are born in the spring, shortly after new green growth has appeared ( which provides food for the females, allowing them to provide milk for the young ), and when the temperatures are warm enough that the young will not die of hypothermia.
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