Maryland's Black Civil War Soldiers tells the story of the men who served in Maryland's 19th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops, through their military and pension records preserved at the U.S. National Archives.Most of the regiment's enlisted men had been enslaved. They came primarily from Southern Maryland and Maryland's Eastern Shore, where Army recruiting parties traveled through the countryside taking enslaved men from farms and plantations. They trained at Camp Stanton in...

At 4 a.m. on April 15, 1865, Dr. Samuel A. Mudd opened the door of his Southern Maryland farmhouse to find John Wilkes Booth outside with a broken leg. He knew Booth, having met him a couple of times before, including once when Booth had stayed overnight at the Mudd farm.Only hours earlier, Booth had shot President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre. Mudd treated Booth's injury, fashioned a splint for his leg, and allowed him to rest in an upstairs bedroom. Later that day, Mudd lear...

Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was one of the eight persons convicted of conspiracy in the 1865 Lincoln assassination trial. The four who had participated in the actual assassination were executed by hanging. Dr. Mudd and the other three were found guilty of otherwise conspiring with the assassin John Wilkes Booth, and sent to the Fort Jefferson military prison, located on a remote island in the Gulf of Mexico, 70 miles west of Key West, Florida. Dr. Mudd and two of the other three were sentenced to l...

Ellie Godfrey has kissed her share of frogs—so many, in fact, that she fears she won't recognize her prince if and when he finally comes along. Tired of waiting for THE ONE, she decides to have a baby on her own before it's too late.When Jasper Autry hears about Ellie's plan, what else can he do but step in and offer to "contribute" to her project? Does that make him an opportunist? Whatever. He wants the perpetually out-of-reach Ellie Godfrey, and when he sees his chance, he takes...

Explore two visionary masters of science fiction in The Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury Short Story Collection. This classic anthology brings together imaginative tales of strange futures, alien worlds, human fear, wonder, technology, and the mysteries of the mind. Perfect for fans of vintage science fiction, dystopian ideas, speculative adventure, and timeless short stories from two of the genre’s most influential authors.

A moody collection of classic sci-fi tales from three masters of the genre. Vintage Science Fiction Stories Vol. 8 brings together inventive, unsettling, and thought-provoking stories by Philip K. Dick, Fredric Brown, and Robert Sheckley in one atmospheric volume.

Journey into four legendary worlds of classic science fiction with The Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and Ray Bradbury Short Story Collection. This anthology brings together visionary tales of space exploration, futuristic societies, strange technologies, alien encounters, and the fragile line between humanity and the unknown. Perfect for fans of vintage science fiction, golden age sci-fi, dystopian imagination, and thought-provoking speculative fiction.

This title was first published in 2000: Robert S. Summers is a distinguished legal theorist whose work has had significant influence in Europe as well as the United States. The study of form and substance in law, the theme of this collection, marks many of his most distinctive contributions to law and legal philosophy over four decades.

Gastrointestinal motility has evolved from an esoteric laboratory tool into a sophisti cated diagnostic technique that is now widely used clinically to guide in management of complex gastrointestinal problems. Today, it is the most rapidly growing subspecialty within gastroenterology. Previously, many of the gastrointestinal motility problems were either ignored or attributed to a disturbance of "psyche." But with the growing knowledge and understanding of how a dysfunction of the gastroin...

This book is a work of outstanding importance for scholars of comparative law and jurisprudence and for lawyers engaged in EC law or other international forms of practice. It reviews, compares and analyses the practice of interpretation in nine countries representing Europe as well as the US and Argentina in common and civil law; it also explores implications for general theories of interpretation and of justification. Its authors, who include Aulis Aarnio, Robert Alexy, Ralf Dreier, Enriq...

They call him the Silent Death, because he kills without sound and leaves none capable of speaking in his wake…When the empire's deadliest fae murderer catches her wielding forbidden magic, twenty-year-old Emelin believes her hour has come. Instead, her inhumanly beautiful captor spares her life, but carries her off on his velvet wings into the one place from which no human ever returns:The heart of the Fae Isles. The treacherous Crimson Court, where the Mo...

"You fell in love with a fae executioner. Did you truly think that would end well?"With war looming, Emelin's plan is simple: break the Mother's bindings while her more diplomacy-minded friends persuade the rest of the world to join their rebellion. Unfortunately, their would-be allies are far too concerned about Em's exact connection to the feared and hated Silent Death. They might risk their lives for the world's only unbound mage, but they'll never fight for a f...