A colorful scene from the Mexican-American War is depicted in this case. Taylor was in fact a short, thickset, and roughly dressed Indian fighter who had spent his career commanding small frontier garrisons. Voters are reminded that Taylor was a victor in the first four battles of the war and that he was a rank amateur in politics.

The settlers entered the Union before writing free-state constitutions.

As soon as the White House took office in March 1849, President Taylor urged Congress to admit California as a free debate and compromise state and to admit New Mexico. People exploded. The nation was shocked by the Carolinian's declaration that Southerners would free-soil a solution to the Mexican cession.

The architect of Unionsaving compromises in the Missouri and nullification crises was Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky.

It was denounced as to address the Senate by Henry S. Foote. Clay defended more offensive to the South than the speeches of compromise. He told the Northerners that the South's William Lloyd Garrison had legitimate complaints, but he didn't tell the Southerners. Civil response came from John C. Calhoun, war. He appealed for an end to reckless proposals that charged that unending northern agitation and the slavery question had "snapped" many of the Northerners. He argued that the fragile polit because of the harsh climate made it impossible for the North and South to unite. I wouldn't use Clay's plan for a free California destroyed. He said in February 1850 that the reenact the will of God was necessary.

The free-soil forces recoiled from what they saw. Boston clergyman and time for the third member of the "great triumvi abolitionist TheodoreParker could only conclude rate," Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, that "Southern men" must have offered him the presidency.

The citizens who packed the gal Congress didn't have the authority to speak to the U.S. Senate. They were not disappointed in the day. Clay explained that the law of God was more important than the compromises required of both Constitutions to ensure free North and South. You can claim that God as well.

The Omnibus Bill was considered by the Senate in May 1850 because it was a vehicle on which "every sort of passenger" could ride. Clay bet that the members of Congress would vote for the package even though they disliked some provisions. The strategy backfired. The comprehensive plan was voted down by Free-Soilers and proslavery Southerners.

Clay had proposed the agreement Douglas won in September 1850. California became a free state. Slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah. Texas received $10 million from the federal government.

The HouSE received little attention.

Millions of Northerners had never seen MICH.

The "peculiar institution" of Columbia aroused TENN.

The slavery controversy will be reopened by Congress.

Politicians did it on their own. Congress ripped the threads out of the compromise after four years.

Slave trade ended slavery in the territories.

The agreement was clumsy and unstable.

The issue of runaway slaves was not new.

Any person held to service or labor in one state who escapes to another will be returned to that state. The fugitive slave law was enacted in 1793.

The northern communities formed for the legislative success. The vigilance committees helped runaways. A few hundred slaves escaped into free Union and peace for the moment, thanks to the Compromise. The question of slavery in the but a series of secret "sta territories" has been avoided.

The Compromise passed a fugitive slave law. It was not slavery in the Southwest that led to the unraveling of ply, the crux of swear that the runaway was his. The commissioner disagreed, but runaway slaves in New earned $10 for every individual returned to England, a part of the settlement that had pre ery but only $5 for those set free. The law stipulated that all citizens who had recently fled slavery were expected to be shot dead by officials.

The angry crowd over Virginia was escorted to the ship that would return him to Boston. I have felt this all day. I saw him off to Canada.

William and Ellen Craft were freed peacefully in 1848. A daring escape took place in Georgia. She couldn't sign travel documents.

The spectacle of African Americans being herded south made every Northerner cringe.

More Northerners were turned against slavery by the novel.

The slave catchers were hated by a member of a famous clan of preachers, teachers, and reformers. The characters leaped from the page. The gentle slave Uncle Tom, a Christian saint who forgives those who beat him to death, was one of three slaves here.

Ex-slaves who lived in slave cabins produced stinging indictments of slavery. The novel by a free white woman did not touch the conscience of the North. A decade after its publication, Stowe visited Abraham An EDITION FOR THE MILLION, COMPLETE IN 1 Vol., PRICE 37 1-2 CENTS.

"Now, if I could use a pen as you can, I would nominate someone who would make this whole nation feel Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire," the enraged sister-in-law told her.

The Whigs were not as successful as they could have been. They chose another Mexican-American War hero, General Winfield Scott of Virginia, using the formula that worked in the 19th century.

The Whigs' northern and southern factions were hopelessly divided, and the party suffered most powerful blows at slavery's destructive defeat. The electoral college voted 254 to 42 in favor of her character's position, which was to keep her son from being sold away. The Compromise told that Lucy drowned in 1850, and the Free-Soil Party lost half of her. After the sale of a son and the voters who had turned to it in the tumultu daughter, Cassy decided "never again" to let a political atmosphere of 1848.

The manifest destiny remained strong.

The truth of Spain and slavery was accepted as truth by the Southerners, but not by the antislavery Northerners. A member of the "Woman's Rights" entered the Union after George F.Holmes pro acquisition to keep more slave territory from Stowe.

The government pushed the Senate Committee on Territories to give him the opportunity to go farther west. Railroads that ran west farmers.

The Fugitive Slave Act caused Indian reserve.

It was closed to slavery in 1820.

There was no incentive for Southerners to create another New Mexico S.C.

Douglas helped Voters to decide on allowing slavery, Slave state or territory to resolve only four years earlier.

Douglas guaranteed Americans that dispossessing the Indians of land would raise a hell of a storm, but many were worried about the outcome of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and opening up the region to slavery.

There is a storm of controversy over how many free and slave states there are. The percentage of new territory likely to be settled by Douglas's plan is a gross violation of a sacred slaveholders.

Papago Indian women in Arizona Territory use sticks to knock down fruit.

The parties have made ideological and policy differences between the sections. The new party system promoted political polarization that further jeopardized the Union.

Whig Party members clashed over the future of slavery in Mexican lands as early as the Mexican-American War. The Whig Party's proslavery southern and antislavery northern wings were not compatible. The Realignment of the Whigs made it clear that they were no longer a strong national party.

After more than two decades of contesting the Democrats, they were hardly a party by 1856.

Whigs and Democrats discovered in popular sovereignty a political conflict doctrine that many Democrats could support after the rise of the Whig.

The Union was strengthened by popular sovereignty. Stephen Douglas divided the North and South when he applied the achieve national political power doctrine to the Louisiana Purchase. The dominance of the southern wings of the Democratic Party was destroyed by the strong northern andern Democrats. Even though the Democrats were a wing, they found positions acceptable to both 1854.

Gains in the political system. In place of two South more balanced Democratic losses national parties with bisectional strength are in the North. During the 1850s, the Democrats won almost every election and had one elected two presidents, despite being heavily dominated by one section and Congress.

Many Americans were left politically adrift by Democrats.

Whigs split into two groups over slavery, with the new Parties: know- president being nominated by a war hero.

Dozens of new political organizations vied for the same thing.

No presidential candi emerged as a true contender due to sectionalism. The person grew out of the date.

The Democratic Party nominated Protestants after President Polk declined to run again.

Lewis Cass avoids a firm platform position on expansion of slavery, but he is associated with popular sovereignty.

Franklin Pierce was nominated for president by the Democrats to bridge the rift in the party and he won with the belief that the American Republic was 50.9 percent of the popular vote.

Most immigrants became Democrats.

The Democrats were tolerant of newcomers than were the Whigs.

The antislavery Democrats and antislavery Whigs formed a political party. The Free-Soil Party recruits swore never to join; presidential candidate Martin Van Buren received a tenth of the popular vote from Whigs.

They were a popular vote.

The Know- Nothing Party was formed.

Know-nothing presidential candidate Millard Fillmore is the favorite destination for Irish immigrants. The party subsequently ceases to exist.

The Republican Party formed to oppose expansion of slavery attracted Whigs, Democrats and Free-Soilers.

By 1854, five northern states had established Republicans as the main challenger.

Lincoln is the only Republican to win all northern states.

The Know-Nothings were not the only new Democrats and southern Constitutional Union Party.

B e y o n d a m e r i c a' s B o r d e r s Filibusters: The.

The Cuban who dedicated himself to the liberation of Cuba from Spanish rule was called manifest destiny.

The invaders did not wear the U.S. Neutrality Act of 1818, but they did attack the northwest coast of Cuba. He tried again, after they planned in months. The inva sippian who had followed the gold Hawaiian kingdom was crushed by the Spaniards. The federal government killed 200 filibusters, shipping rush to California, and executions of 160 prisoners to Spain, because they were afraid of private invasions. Lopez would be at risk if the gover jeopardized him. John Quitman faced an insurrection, matic efforts to promote trade and another army of several, he invited Crabb to help him acquire territory.

The threat rights and land were ended when he joined the invading armies.

Crabb marched his band of sons to manhood.

William Walker of Los Angeles was the most successful of the eight ex-miners south, but by the time the work of manifest destiny extended Tennessee, a restless dreamer who Americans arrived, the governor had ing America. The Mexicans turned on the American in the 1830s and 1840s. The only Americans who died when they sailed from San Francisco to the west were in battle or at the hands of the Northerners. Two thousand re of Mexican firing squad. Crabb's head slavery's spread to the North and in forcements and a civil war in was preserved in alcohol and placed West, the Southerners joined the fight and gave Walker his victory.

One Republican claimed that three-quarters of those who opposed the extension of slavery into any of whites "retire to the outskirts of civilization, territory of the United States, including Whigs."

The Republican creed was warned that it was based on the beliefs and values of the slaveholders of the South.

Costa Rican soldiers and their Central American allies defeated William Walker in the 19th century.

Walker was recognized by the American nation.

Four other attacks and the Caribbean were launched by the people of Central America for anti-American sentiment.

How did people support the filibuster?

There was no foreign nation eighty years earlier.

The Constitution is undermined by powerful images of liberty.

Only if slavery was limited to the South.

Republicans believed that the system of free Women as well as men could flourish elsewhere. In 1854, three women helped the Republican party in Wisconsin.

Although they could not vote before the Civil in society, in life, is to be tested by his own indi War and suffered from a raft of other legal hand vidual character.

Slavery and sectionalism took their toll on the country's party system in the 19th century. The Whig Party was the first casualty. By 1860, national parties were replaced by regional parties.

The states won by the Republicans in 1856 and 1860 were different from each other.

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Slave states and Democrat states occurred in less than a century.

Slave states in the North worked on behalf of antislavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which caused the party to fall apart. Women who are married control their own property.

The 1856 election revealed that the Republicans were the main challenger to the Democrats and that they had written off the South. They and slavery in the territories, not nativism, was nominated for president. The Know-Nothings believed that the issue of slavery had blinded Americans to the dangers of uncontrol ed immigration and foreign influence. There is more than a little irony in the banner's appeal to the Native Americans. The Know-Nothings were referring to native-born Americans, but American Indians also faced an invasion, and to them it made little difference whether the invaders were fresh off the boat or born in the United States.

All but five of the states are north of the Mason-Dixon line. The Whigs had crumbled, the Know-Nothings would not ride nativism to national power, and the Democrats were badly strained by the election. The press called it the "glorious defeat" of the Republicans. The Republicans seriously challenged the Democrats for national power despite being a brand-new party. A new party system created danger for the Republic.

There was war between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas Territory.

The first time a candidate's wife appeared on campaign items was during the 1856 election. The Republican Party's presidential candidate, John C. Fremont, rode a horse with his wife,Jessie, in Kansas Territory in the mid-1850s. She helped plan her husband's campaign, wrote his election boost, and drew northern women into political activity for the first time.

Critics of Jessie's violation of women's traditional sphere and free men were ridiculed by Kansas.

Republicans claim that Kansas opened a window to southern values and intentions.

The Supreme Court, as well as the senator's husband, knew that the South's political map reflected the Republicans' view of tyranny and minority rule. Though careful to maintain 1858, the issues dividing North and South received a proper public image, which helped attract Illinois, when the nation's foremost Democrat voters and draw women into politics.

James Buchanan of Pennsylvania was chosen by the Democrats as their "doughface" because of their sectional differences.

They took refuge in the ambiguity of popular approval of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and portrayed the Republicans as William H. Seward of New York challenged the South. There is no pushing the South out of the Union since there is no risk to the Slave States.

We will engage in a contest with Buchanan, but he did well.

The Republican carried Kansas was campaigning under the slogan "Free popular sovereignty would determine whether soil, Free men, Fremont, or Kansas became slave or free."

God's state settlement claimed that the center of free sought a majority at the ballot box when the settlers raided the town of Lawrence. The blessing kept their rifles ready, but only one man died.

"Sack of Lawrence" is what free-soil forces called it in the North and South. The New a free-soil settler said that the England Emigrant Aid Company sponsored a group of bad men to die. The man who came here to make Kansas a Free community from Virginia to Texas raised money and should be driven out of the state.

Missourians are bordered on the east along Pottawatomie Creek by the free state of Illinois.

We can send five in the national capital if that's not enough.

31, 1856 was when Kansas's first Kansas.

President Pierce endorsed a man who had the work of the legislature.

The antislavery men were armed with rifles, knives, swords, and pistols and gathered for a picture near the freesoil town of Lawrence in 1856. Lawrence was briefly occupied by proslavery men that year.

In April 1848, three months.

By law, husbands band and wife shared the same debts and financial decisions. The widow gets one-half household, how could a wife not trust her charged?

The bill failed to pass.

The panics of her own ornaments, as well as the re tion of one bed with appurtenances for married, were caused by her sta to control as long as she remained. New York City thought that Ernestine Potowsky was the first wife and property because she had sulting bankruptcies, changed a stove, and the Bible. Men in spinning wheels and weaving women in the united States take state legislatures to make laws that loom, one table, six chairs, ten cups and change the law.

She was the daughter of a husband. "Mississippi led the way, which meant that her destiny in 1839, and by 1848 eighteen states questioned whether the spoons was fixed, since a widow many children, and a life strictly, " said the rabbi.

It was spun by religious law. As support for such wheels waned in New York, Ernestine rose up and made the law London. She is a new constituency of women who are out-of-date.

The couple argued about the plight of poor wives. She should be able to own and control Susan B. Anthony's property in New York City. She was in New York and met William, who started a business.

Anthony felt compelled to defend the honor of both his Sumner and his state.

Sumner lay bleeding and unconscious on the floor after he was hit over the head with his cane. He resigned from the House and was promptly reelected.

The southern hero became an arch because of the Constitution.

As I passed from town to town, I was made to feel the great evil of women's utter dependence on man.

In 1860, New York amended its law to include a wife's wages as her own if she earned money outside the household. Money earned from selling eggs or caring for boarders went into the husband's pocket.

Women whose husbands were incompetent to support them or who had deserted them were the most significant beneficiaries of this law.

The husbands had no right to their wives' earnings.

Other important changes to coverture were made by the revised New York law.

The process of elevating married women to near equality with men began after these changes were adopted in many states.

How married women ture their image on a photographic plate is revealed by the laws of coverture. The library was viewed for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

The Court's decision demonstrated the help of white friends, sued to prove that he and his family were legally entitled to their partisan and sectional passions that were con freedom. Scott's claim was based on his travels.

Even after returning to Missouri, a slave, The HouSE, was free.

Slavery was excluded from the case by the U.S. Supreme Court. He was not a citizen of the United States, which was frightening to African rights. Blacks were considered to be no rights when the Constitution was written.

Free black men did not make him free because of his status at the time. Congress's power could vote in five states and participate in the process of making all needful rules and regulations. Slavery was not allowed in Wisconsin because it did not include the right to ery.

The case of Dred Scott aroused a lot of interest. The portrait of Dred Scott was painted in the year of the Supreme Court's decision. The Court's ruling alarmed African Americans in the North. He gained his freedom when a white man freed Scott and his family after the Court rejected his suit. In 1858, Scott died of Tuberculosis.

The Court rejected racial views in a seven to two decision. He also viewed the statement of the South's territorial rights, even though he denounced slav Curtis's arguments.

The Negroes have natural rights.

White prejudice made it impossible for young people in the Republican Party to extend full citizenship to blacks. He believed that America was "outrageous". One Republican argued that allowing blacks to remain in the country would lead to a race war. Lincoln believed that the Republicans' claim that blacks leave the country because of a hostile "Slave Power" was evidence of social stability.

Republican politicians were given fresh ened free men's basic right to succeed by slavery's expansion threat case.

He lived in a two-story house. Lincoln warned Springfield, Illinois, that the next step would be another Supreme Court decision. Lincoln's living was provided by the law, but he declared that the Constitution of the United politics was his life.

Lincoln had no political home and the Whig Party's fall meant that opponents of slavery would arrest its spread, but the Know place it on the "course of ultimate extinction," or Nothings held no appeal.

The core of the Republican ideology has been formed.

Lincoln was convinced that slavery was a "monstrous injustice," a "great moral wrong," and an "unqualifier" of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. He said that Lincoln's act of 1854 giving slavery a new life would be his downfall in the Senate. He accepted the man of the party, who was full of wit, facts and dates, that the Constitution allowed slavery in those and the best stump speaker, with his droll ways states where it existed, but he believed that and dry jokes in the West. He is as honest as Congress could be.

Lecompton drafted a proslavery constitution and applied for statehood. President Buchanan instructed Congress to admit Kansas as a slave state despite the fact that free-soilers outnumbered proslavery settlers. Douglas declared his independence from the South and hoped that he would be accepted at home.

Lincoln, a relative unknown and a decided underdog in the Illinois election, challenged Douglas to debate him face-to-face. In seven communities, the two met for a series of debates. They must have seemed odd to the thousands who were straining to see and hear them. Lincoln was six feet four inches tall, broad, and lean, while Douglas was five feet four inches tall, broad, and stocky. Douglas was in motion, darting across the platform, shouting and jabbing the air, while Lincoln stood still and spoke. Lincoln wore good suits but looked rumpled despite his flashy vests, while Douglas wore the latest fashions and dazzled audiences with his flashy vests.

The issues of slavery and freedom were debated by the two men. They showed pictures of everyday life. Two men from the country read the New York Herald to keep up with the news. Abraham Lincoln's portrait of the Republican Party as the guardian of the liberty and economic opportunity of the common people has become more accepted because of widespread press coverage. Lincoln was a true Republican. Douglas was badgered by Lincoln about the threat of free labor and democracy in the south. He tried to force Mrs. Ward Melville.

Douglas argued that they could ban slavery just as easily as they could not because they were a formidable foe. The nation's economy had been affected by not passing protective laws, like those found in slave states. Many were charged with trying to steal the victory of the unemployed, because prices had plummeted, sands of businesses had failed, and Douglas's "Freeport Doctrine" had been condemned.

The racial issue was worked on by Douglas in his response to another crisis. He helped shore up his standing in Illinois by calling.

Douglas told a racist story about slave insurrection. Lincoln was not a negrophobe. One newspaper said that he tried to make a martyr of him and that he considered the morality and future of slavery to be the same.

Brown told his wife that he fought hard.

I should give up my life for the U.S. senators. Democrats won a slight ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the majority in the Illinois legislature.

Northerners denunciation of Brown as a dangerous fanatic gave way to grudging respect.

Brown's resort to violence was endorsed by some abolitionists.

I am prepared to say that Lincoln's thesis that the "slavocracy" colluded with William Lloyd Garrison is overstated. The South's aggressiveness was concluded like Lincoln's. White Southerners did not agree with Brown's antislavery ideals. They said that they were still under siege. White Southerners contemplated what not only in the territories, but also in the North, when they saw signs that said "John Brown's" in northern churches. Southerners must not allow this Federal to prove that Northerners were unwilling to be government to pass into the traitorous hands of Christian decency and reverence for life.

The presidential election was only months away.

The Southerners used the final crisis to gain republican victory in the Union, not to destroy it, despite talk of leaving the Union for years.

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The grandparents of an artist were slaves. The painting recalls the scene his grandmother described to him when he saw the hanging of John Brown. He managed to convey a striking intensity even though he used a subdued palette to establish the bleak setting. The painting depicts Brown tied and sitting on his coffin as white men stare at him. The woman in the lower right corner is black. The central place of John Brown in black memory was recalled by a leading twentieth-century African American artist, as were the domino games and the hoe cakes for Sunday morning breakfast.

Republicans have solid Republican credentials.

Lincoln was chosen on the third ballot by the platform that featured a federal slave code. Douglas had a goal of extreme proslavery in the state contest. They argued that Lincoln was ready to take the presidency because Congress was powerless to stop slavery's spread.

Democrats in the north knew about American politics. The nation's severest crisis took place in the midst of northern voters. The presidential field was crowded when the platform dates were approved. The entire Lower South and Arkansas stomped their way into two contests, each with two out of the convention. There are still Democrats candidates. After facing Douglas in the North, Lincoln adjourned to meet a few weeks later in Baltimore, where they nominated Douglas for president.

The southern Democrats met inRichmond and approved a platform with a federal slave code and nominated their own candidate for president: John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky, who was serving as vice president under Buchanan. Moderates in the South refused to support Breckinridge. John Bell was nominated for president.

The Republicans thought they needed to win all the free states to do so. They expanded their platform to make their party more appealing. They hoped that free homesteads, a transcontinental railroad, and a guarantee of immigrant political rights would unify the North. They denounced John Brown's raid as "one of the gravest of crimes" and confirmed the security of slavery in the South.

Lincoln sought the Republican presidential nom didate to go with their evenhanded platform, but Republicans cast about for a moderate. While in New York City, William H. Seward had his picture taken by Mathew Brady. They did. Lincoln said that the North and South were fated to collide. Since bursting onto the national scene tograph by Brady, Lincoln, victory to his New York speech and to this dignified pho.

Douglas and Bell were two stout defenders of the Union.

They pleaded to let the dust settle. Lincoln was asked what he had done to justify something as extreme as secession. Bell was confronted by Breckinridge in the South. The fire-eater cure would be worse than the Republican disease. Secession might lead the Republican Party to not allow to war, which would allow south Lincoln's name to appear on the ballot in ten ern society, and possibly open the door to the fifteen slave states.

An unprecedented number of voters cast their ballots in the revolution. They voted on November 6, 1860.

All of the delay was swept by Lincoln. He asked if Lincoln would appoint tory. There would be no war.

For all of their differences, southern whites agreed that they had to defend slavery. Smith of South Carolina spoke for the Delaware, Maryland, and North Carolina.

On December 20, 1860, the Charleston Mercury published a special edition to celebrate South Carolina's separation from the Union.

They disagreed about whether the presence of a Republican in the White House made it necessary for them to break away.

The debate about what to do in South Carolina was brief. South Carolina's footsteps were followed by six other Lower South states. The vote was close in some states. Slaveholders spearheaded secession, while non slaves in the Piedmont and mountain counties had the greatest attachment to the Union.

Alexander Stephens of Georgia became vice president after he spoke about the dangers of revolution.

The Union was split by Lincoln's election. The South was split into two. Slave states catastrophe, social chaos, and racial war. The eight slave would need to do more than just be elected to states of the Upper South that were against secession to cause them to break away.

The nation had to wait until the Upper South had a smaller stake.

Slaves were in PA twice.

William H. Seward said that southern suspicions of northern President's duty to enforce the laws were confirmed.

During the crisis of the Union, reassurances were given to the South. He did not have the right to interfere with slavery where it existed, intertwined with national politics. Lincoln was inflexible about the Union because he was new to it.

The Republican Party emerged.

"You can't have peace in America if you don't have the territories," Lincoln said.

Brown's antislavery movement pushed white at Fort Sumter in the 19th century.

Lincoln said in his inaugural address that they were not enemies but friends.

It was not known if disunion Free Labor would mean war.

Key terms and dates can be used to support your answer.

Proviso was introduced in Congress.

Proviso was defeated in the Senate.

There is a compromise of "popular sovereignty".

The Free-Soil Party was founded.

Taylor was elected president.

The Vice President becomes 2 after Taylor's death. The policies of the Republican president were discussed.

The Uncle Tom's Cabin was published.

Franklin Pierce is a Democrat.

The Republican Party was founded.

Buchanan is a Democrat.

The Lecompton constitution was rejected by Congress.

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas debated slavery.

John Brown is in Virginia.

Lincoln was a Republican.

There are six Lower South states that want to leave.

The Confederate States of America were formed.

Lincoln is in office.

This drum was made from wood cut into thin layers and then steamed and shaped into a shell. The drum heads were made from calfskin. The cause was announced by the fierce eagle, flag, and motto. The drums got the soldiers up in the morning and then announced the lights out. The most important use of drums was on the battlefield, where they communicated orders to their troops. The life of a drummer was wonderful, and boys as young as ten eagerly served in northern units.

The photo is courtesy of Allan Katz and the Library of Congress.