# The party battles of the Jackson period

Author: Bowers, Claude G. (Claude Gernade), 1879?-1958

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72299

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+party+battles+of+the+Jackson+period+Bowers&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The tourist traveling from Philadelphia to Washington in the Thirties anticipated few pleasures and no comforts from the trip that had to be made by coach from Baltimore, over roads intolerably wretched under the best conditions, and all but impassable and not without dangers in inclement weather. The journey from Philadelphia to Baltimore was usually made by boat through the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and the entire trip, in winter one of exposure, required the greater part of two days.[1] The fare from Baltimore to Washington was four dollars. Sometimes the ruts in the winter roads would overturn the coach, throwing the passengers into the mire, and occasionally resulting in sprains...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-party-battles-of-the-jackson-period-72299/chapters/3/index.md)