1/19/2021
Biden Isn t the First President to Have to Change Tracks en Route to Inauguration Historians/History by Jeff Rogg
Jeff Rogg is a postdoctoral fellow in the National Security Affairs Department at the U.S. Naval War College. Jeff received his PhD in history from The Ohio State University in December 2020. His dissertation, The Spy and the State
, is a complete history of American intelligence from the Revolutionary War to the present. The views in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the views of the U.S. government, Department of the Navy, or U.S. Naval War College. Twitter: @ThespyThestate
virginia plapnters so they that tobacco is not going to work but to go to wheat primarily. but he had other crops too. and he had multisources of income. he had hemp. every time i talk about washington, some young pot head comes up to me with a dollar bill. and i say i m for legalizing marijuana just like you are, but the hemp was for fact bribric, r smoking. i don t think there s any good rationalization for what you re asking, which is a superb question. think about it this way, the greatest members of the revolutionary was virginians. i m from virginia. i went to william & mary university and i have the same color of hair as thomas jefferson, what s left of it. that generation and the generation that succeeded it took the wrong turn. on slavery, and on the principle of state s rights. and once they took that wrong turn, i mean, virginia has become a political back water. it has never recovered its position. and it s been a source of segregation in the 20th century and
most of the northern states, had him doubling back from pittsburgh to cleveland, then going way up north as far north as buffalo and albany before heading south to philadelphia. as tom mentioned, there were two ways for lincoln to actually approach baltimore, depending on which railroad he took. if he was coming from harris burg, he would be coming directly south on the northern central line. if he was coming from philadelphia on the pwb railroad, he would have been approaching more from the east and approaching baltimore from that direction. now, tom also mentioned dorothea dix. and in 1861, samuel morris felton who was the president of the b and o railroad had received an unannounced visit from dorothea dix and she told him the following that there was an extensive and organized plot around the south to declare the southern confederacy the government of the united states. at the same time they were to cut off all means of communication between washington and the north, east