Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, a preacher and a college and university president in four Southern states, published the earliest of these backwoods sketches and in the character Ransy Sniffle, in the accounts of sharp horse-trading and eye-gouging physical combat, and in the shockingly unliterary speech of his characters, he set an example followed by many after him.

The other four states end on varying dates: Alabama ( Sept. 30 ), New York ( March 31 ), Pennsylvania ( May 31 ), and Texas ( August 31 ).

division four will be headed by the Navy, followed by 11 states ; ;

After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was abolished everywhere in the nation.

Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property, which led to declarations of secession by four more slave states.

These four elements were eventually codified in most states.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

C. W. Ceram states in The March of Archaeology that lamassi were typically sculpted with five legs so that four legs were always visible, whether the image were viewed frontally or in profile.

The Calendar of Saints states that her first husband was poisoned by the holder of real power, his successor, Berengar of Ivrea, who attempted to cement his political power by forcing her to marry his son, Adalbert ; when she refused and fled, she was tracked down and imprisoned for four months at Como.

In 1997, a memorandum of understanding between the US and four of the former USSR states was signed and subject to ratification by each signatory, but it was not presented to the US Senate for advice and consent by Bill Clinton.

Bulgaria, often dubbed " Prussia of the Balkans ", was militarily the most powerful of the four states, with a large, well-trained and well-equipped army.

After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.

Chlorine exists in all odd numbered oxidation states from − 1 to + 7, as well as the elemental state of zero and four in chlorine dioxide ( see table below, and also structures in chlorite ).

He states that this process goes through four stages:

Although many nations have abolished capital punishment, over 60 % of the world's population live in countries where executions take place, such as the People's Republic of China, India, the United States of America and Indonesia, the four most-populous countries in the world, which continue to apply the death penalty ( although in India, Indonesia and in many US states it is rarely employed ).

The classical elements correspond more closely to four of the states of matter: solid, liquid, gas and plasma.

Chapter 4 ( Sura-e-Nisa ), verse 3 of the Quran states that a man may only be married to four women at the most, should he be able to treat them all fairly and equally.

However, some states like California have civil procedure systems which deviate significantly from the federal rules ; the California Codes provide for four separate types of class actions.

The German Confederation or German Union ( Deutscher Bund ) was a loose confederation of thirty-five monarchical states and four republican ( but hardly democratic ) free cities, with a Federal Assembly in Frankfurt.

These four so-called mega-quakes are believed to be an ongoing cataclysmic danger that could reprise the 1811-12 series of 2, 000 quakes that affected the lands of what would be eight of today's heartland states of the United States.

A comparison of four successful programs against malaria in Brazil, India, Eritrea, and Vietnam does not endorse any single strategy but instead states, " Common success factors included conducive country conditions, a targeted technical approach using a package of effective tools, data-driven decision-making, active leadership at all levels of government, involvement of communities, decentralized implementation and control of finances, skilled technical and managerial capacity at national and sub-national levels, hands-on technical and programmatic support from partner agencies, and sufficient and flexible financing.

In Brazil the two countries negotiations were overseen by four " Guarantor " states ( Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and the United States — four of the most powerful countries in the region ).

In autumn 2008, the Montana Lottery, one of only four U. S. states to legalize sports betting, began offering fantasy sports wagering for the first time.

In mathematics, the four color theorem, or the four color map theorem states that, given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, producing a figure called a map, no more than four colors are required to color the regions of the map so that no two adjacent regions have the same color.

State briefs: Voters in four counties containing and bordering Denver authorized the imposition of an additional 2% sales tax within that area.

The four Tetrarchs based themselves not at Rome but in other cities closer to the frontiers, mainly intended as headquarters for the defence of the Empire against bordering rivals ( notably Sassanian Persia ) and barbarians ( mainly Germanic, and an endless procession from the eastern steppe ; many nomadic or elsewhere chased tribes ) at the Rhine and Danube.

It is located in the northeast of the country, bordering Belgium, and consists of four departments: Aube, Ardennes, Haute-Marne, and Marne.

Brandon began spreading out into the bordering communities of Limona, Seffner, and Valrico ; Hopewell Road became four lanes wide and was designated State Road 60.

There are four public beaches in the town: Eastville Beach, facing Vineyard Haven Harbor and adjacent to the entrance to Lagoon Pond ; Oak Bluffs Town Beach, bordering Nantucket Sound just south of the Steamship Authority Pier ; Hart Haven Beach, further to the south ; and Joseph Sylvia State Beach, a barrier beach ( shared by Oak Bluffs and Edgartown that separates Sengekontacket Pond from Nantucket Sound.

The Regierungsbezirk Weser-Ems was the most westerly of the four administrative regions of Lower Saxony, Germany, bordering on the Dutch provinces of Groningen, Drenthe and Overijssel.

As well as bordering on the two other municipalities in the Dornbirn district ( Hohenems and Lustenau ), the town shares borders with 15 municipalities of the Bregenz district: ( Lauterach, Wolfurt, Schwarzach, Bildstein, Alberschwende, Schwarzenberg, Reuthe, Mellau, Damüls ) and four with the Feldkirch district: ( Laterns, Zwischenwasser, Viktorsberg, Fraxern ).

New Hampshire is one of only two states, along with bordering Vermont, to hold gubernatorial elections every two years as opposed to every four.

The governor is elected in even numbered years by direct voting for a term of two years ; Vermont and bordering New Hampshire are the only states to hold gubernatorial elections every two years, instead of every four.

At the diet which met in February 1445 a provisional government consisting of five Captain Generals was formed, with Hunyadi receiving Transylvania and four counties bordering on the Tisza, called the Partium or Körösvidék, to rule.

Sekong is split administratively into four districts: Thateng on the Bolaven Plateau, Lamam in the lowland plain, and Dakchung and Kaleum in the mountainous areas bordering Vietnam.

The Four Heatons are four affluent suburbs to the northwest of Stockport, bordering the city of Manchester, England.

Duquesne also owns four other buildings along Fifth Avenue bordering on the new Consol Energy Center where the University now plays some of its home basketball games.

The famous historian Herodotus mentions a region bordering on the banks of the Indus occupied by a people called the Pactyans who were divided into four tribes, one which were the Aparthea or Aparutai, likely to be the Aprit mentioned by Panini.

These four bordering streets are called, respectively, St Stephen's Green North, St Stephen's Green South, St Stephen's Green East and St Stephen's Green West.

The Mediterranean Games are a multi-sport games held every four years, mainly for nations bordering the Mediterranean Sea, where Europe, Africa and Asia meet.

It is one of the four major bodies of water bordering Vancouver along with English Bay, Burrard Inlet and the Fraser River.

) The event showcased the industry, art and culture of Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Russia — the four countries then bordering the Baltic Sea.

The people of Inle Lake ( called Intha ), some 70, 000 of them, live in four cities bordering the lake, in numerous small villages along the lake's shores, and on the lake itself.

Al-Wajajah ( الوجاجة in Arabic ) or just Wajajah is the busiest of the four ports of the Sultanate of Oman bordering the United Arab Emirates ( Wadi Al-Jenzi, Buraimi, and Teibat being the other three ).

In Russia, partial mobilization was ordered for the four military districts bordering Austria-Hungary.

The mosque should specially be noted for its four axially projected frontons with bordering ornamental turrets, a device which must have been borrowed from the four axial iwan-type gateways of the Persian influenced north Indian Mughal standard mosques of Fathpur, Agra and Delhi.

Lake of Two Mountains has four outflows: Rivière des Mille Îles and Rivière des Prairies, bordering Île Jésus, and two branches of the Ottawa River, flowing into the St. Lawrence via Lake Saint-Louis, on either side of Île Perrot.