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Many of the volunteers were unwanted and considered poor soldiers the expression "Just like Gaines's army" came to refer to something useless the phrase having originated when a group of untrained and unwilling Louisiana troops were rejected and sent back by Gen Taylor at the beginning of the war, In 2016 the District's Metropolitan Police Department tallied 135 homicides a 53% increase from 2012 but a 17% decrease from 2015. Many neighborhoods such as Columbia Heights and Logan Circle are becoming safer and vibrant However incidents of robberies and thefts have remained higher in these areas because of increased nightlife activity and greater numbers of affluent residents. Even still citywide reports of both property and violent crimes have declined by nearly half since their most recent highs in the mid-1990s, In 1861 General Scott advised Abraham Lincoln to ask Lee to command U.S forces Lee declined and later recounted "I declined the offer he made me to take command of the army that was brought into the field stating candidly and as courteously as I could that though opposed to secession and deprecating war I could take no part in the invasion of the southern states.". Constantinople Roman Empire (324-330) Washington D.C. Business Directory Louisiana: the executive and legislative branches and most government agencies are based in Baton Rouge but the Louisiana Supreme Court is located in New Orleans.

Robert Morris president of Pennsylvania's Committee of Safety and one of the founders of the financial system of the United States, According to Adalberto Aguirre there were 1,161 slaves executed in the U.S between the 1790s and 1850s. Quick executions of innocent slaves as well as suspects typically followed any attempted slave rebellions as white militias overreacted with widespread killings that expressed their fears of rebellions or suspected rebellions. ; Clockwise from top right: United States Capitol Washington Monument the White House Smithsonian Institution Building Lincoln Memorial and Washington National Cathedral, The District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (i.e WASA or D.C Water) is an independent authority of the D.C government that provides drinking water and wastewater collection in Washington WASA purchases water from the historic Washington Aqueduct which is operated by the Army Corps of Engineers the water sourced from the Potomac River is treated and stored in the city's Dalecarlia Georgetown and McMillan reservoirs the aqueduct provides drinking water for a total of 1.1 million people in the District and Virginia including Arlington Falls Church and a portion of Fairfax County the authority also provides sewage treatment services for an additional 1.6 million people in four surrounding Maryland and Virginia counties. Once the trip ended slaves faced a life on the frontier significantly different from most labor in the Upper South Clearing trees and starting crops on virgin fields was harsh and backbreaking work a combination of inadequate nutrition bad water and exhaustion from both the journey and the work weakened the newly arrived slaves and produced casualties New plantations were located at rivers' edges for ease of transportation and travel Mosquitoes and other environmental challenges spread disease which took the lives of many slaves They had acquired only limited immunities to lowland diseases in their previous homes the death rate was so high that in the first few years of hewing a plantation out of the wilderness some planters preferred whenever possible to use rented slaves rather than their own, Initial skirmish at the Nueces Strip from the confluence of its North and South Branches. There are few I believe in this enlightened age who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race While my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter my sympathies are more deeply engaged for the former the blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa morally physically and socially the painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their further instruction as a race and will prepare them I hope for better things How long their servitude may be necessary is known and ordered by a merciful Providence, Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond Virginia Painted upon the sketch of 1853, The desertion rate in the U.S Army was 8.3% (9,200 out of 111,000) compared to 12.7% during the War of 1812 and usual peacetime rates of about 14.8% per year. Many men deserted to join another U.S unit and get a second enlistment bonus Some deserted because of the miserable conditions in camp it has been suggested that others used the army to get free transportation to California where they deserted to join the gold rush; this however is unlikely as gold was only discovered in California on January 24 1848 less than two weeks before the war concluded.[original research?] By the time word reached the eastern U.S that gold had been discovered word also reached it that the war was over. ; When the Constitution was ratified in 1787 the ratio of the populations of large states to small states was roughly twelve to one the Connecticut Compromise gave every state large and small an equal vote in the Senate. Since each state has two senators residents of smaller states have more clout in the Senate than residents of larger states But since 1787 the population disparity between large and small states has grown; in 2006 for example California had seventy times the population of Wyoming. Critics such as constitutional scholar Sanford Levinson have suggested that the population disparity works against residents of large states and causes a steady redistribution of resources from "large states to small states". However others argue that the Connecticut Compromise was deliberately intended by the Founding Fathers to construct the Senate so that each state had equal footing not based on population and contend that the result works well on balance.