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(Encyclopedia) Buell, Don Carlos, 1818–98, Union general in the Civil War, b. near Marietta, Ohio, grad. West Point, 1841. Buell was appointed brigadier general of volunteers in the Civil War (May,…
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark December 31, 1805January 2, 1806January 1, 1806 Fort Clatsop 1806. January 1st Tuesday. This morning I was awoke at an early hour by the…
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Archbishop of Rheims. A mythological contemporary of Charlemagne. His chronicle is supposed to be written at Vienne, in Dauphiny, whence it is addressed to Leoprandus, Dean of…
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