So I know I shouldn't expect more, but I was just really trying hard to get the hang of the new Books app on the Mac. And I just can't. After a chapter of the new Night Angel book, it would stop reading. That's fine, I'd do the read all command and it'd continue. But then it gets to a point where things break, and the first sentence of the paragraph repeats itself, and the chapter isn't even a part of the "book contents" element anymore. I just... I don't even have it in me to try to write out feedback that's detailed enough to be "actionable." Maybe someone with more patience can do that. Anyway I know that Windows doesn't have an EPub reader or books app of its own. I get it. But my goodness, Apple is *supposed* to be better than this. Thank goodness I have multiple systems. And yes, I know we have Voice Dream Reader or Speech Central on the Mac. But on the iPhone for many, many years, I didn't *need* any of that. It felt so much better back then. On iOS 5 or 6 when I could read through a whole book with no issues. And I did just that. I was all into Dark Shadows back then, so read a few books in that universe. It was one of my first iTunes purchases, and my iPod Touch read it perfectly.

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No. I am sorry.

Other sites and aggregators are not accessible for the blind. They all use #Captuas, which require giving my account information to a sighted person to login.

I attempted to reset up #Apple #IBooks, and their customer service can't figure out why it won't work.

I don't have a sighted person available to login and do the work for me.

At some point, they will be on the #InternetArchive, if it is accessible

May 6, 1861 - Arkansas seceded from the Union.

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5 days later political war broke out between Governor Rector and the Secession Convention as to who held authority ...to command the state’s armed forces, though many members of the militia refused to follow... orders." [Source: Encyclopedia of Arkansas https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/civil-war-timeline-5336/ ]

May 2, 1865 - President Andrew Johnson offered $100,000 reward for the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

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May 1, 1863 - The Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia began. General Robert E. Lee's forces began fighting Union troops under General Joseph Hooker. Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own soldiers later in this battle.

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April 25, 1862 - Union Admiral David Farragut began capturing New Orleans. Union troops officially took possession on April 29.
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Print shows a large squadron of battleships and ironclads entering the Mississippi River near the "Light-house of Southwest Pass."

George Vanderbilt started collecting books at age 12 and built a library of 23,000 volumes.

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Washington in the 1860s permitted women uncommon freedoms. The wives of senators, congressmen, and judges played key roles in parlors. Elite ladies enjoyed full social calendars. The galleries of the “sacred” Capitol glowed with fashionable bonnets. Women thronged its corridors, sending in cards to summon acquaintances from the floor of congress.

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"I never felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." President Abraham #Lincoln when signing the #Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

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Four years from the day rebels had compelled Major Anderson to haul down the Stars and Stripes at Fort Sumter, Anderson, now a major general, raised the same flag over the ruins of the Fort.

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April 13, 1861 - The postmaster-general of the Confederacy ordered local postmasters to return their U.S. stamps to Washington, DC. "The first confederate stamps were not available until October 1861. Most printers capable of doing the work were in the northern states." [Source: Smithsonian, National Postal Museum]
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April 7, 1862 - Union General Ulysses S. Grant pushed the Confederates, now under General Pierre G. T. Beauregard, back to Corinth. The previous day Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston had been killed. His death at Shiloh was a significant blow to rebels.
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Rifle fire awakened infantry regiments. Prentiss’s line got attacked first, followed by an assault on Sherman’s division. His beautiful sorrel got shot, so General Sherman took a horse from his aide, McCoy, but it also got shot.
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April 5, 1862 - General George McClellan established Union siege lines at Yorktown, Virginia.

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"Our regiment was moved to Ship Point near Yorktown a short time after my last letter to you. We remained in camp there until last Sunday when it became known that the rebels had evacuated their position." Captain William Medill, Williamsburg, Virginia

April 2, 1863 - In Richmond, hundreds of women took to the streets, rioted, and demanded the government release emergency supplies.

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It really seems odd that so many sites won't let me login with my gmail email.

I remember when it was intended for businesses, especially small businesses.

The number of #Tech #Email issues has expanded.

#Apple #IBooks (Cannot find connected account), #BarnesAndNoble (cannot connect at this time), #Draft2Digital (Captures), #Kobo (Captures), #StreetLib (Cannot connect). None seem to recognize my email properly.

Is there anyway to get these programs to just work?

Do I need to change email?

"Camp Butler also served as a major prison beginning in February 1862 with the arrival of 2,000 Confederate soldiers captured at the surrender of Fort Donelson in Tennessee." [source: NPS]
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"Most troops at Camp Butler spent little more than one month training, often using wooden sticks in place of rifles due to weapon shortages. Over the course of the war, nearly 200,000 troops passed through the camp."
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“And the page-curl animation in Books is back.” 💛 #EPUB #iBooks #iOS #Skeumorphism

From: @viticci
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1865 March, Steamer at a dock waiting for exchange of prisoners at Aiken's Landing, on the James River in Virginia.

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