In his 1885 memoirs former US President Ulysses Grant (himself a veteran of the Mexican war) attributed Mexico's defeat to the poor quality of their army writing:. Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Hanson Maryland 1 Yes 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 abolition of slavery in the rebel states became a military objective Union armies advancing south liberated three million slaves Lincoln's comment on the signing of the Proclamation was: "I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper.":407 Lincoln continued earlier plans to set up colonies for the newly freed slaves He supported this in the Proclamation but the undertaking failed.:408.
On November 6 Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States He was the first Republican president and his victory was entirely due to his support in the North and West; no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.:61 Lincoln received 1,866,452 votes or 39.8% of the total in a four-way race He won the free Northern states as well as California and Oregon.:350. Contents The term Congress can also refer to a particular meeting of the legislature a Congress covers two years; the current one the 116th Congress began on January 3 2019 and will end on January 3 2021 the Congress starts and ends on the third day of January of every odd-numbered year Members of the Senate are referred to as senators; members of the House of Representatives are referred to as representatives congresswomen or congressmen. .
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