Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
The Cormany Diaries
Author: James MohrPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822976323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
This unique pair of diaries offers an unforgettable account of the life of an average Northern family coping with the dangers and tensions of the Civil War. There were thousands like them, but few left such a clear and indelible record of their experiences.Rachel Cormany (nee Bowman) met Samuel Cormany at Otterbein University in Ohio. After her husband enlisted in a cavalry unit, she writes poignantly of her anxieties, poverty, and loneliness. Samuel, on the other hand, is ambitious in his military career, and tells enthusiastically about his engagements that include camp life, cavalry raids, army politics, and his battles with alcohol. Editor James C. Mohr has arranged the diaries so that the voices of husband and wife alternate, and his notes enlighten many of the issues relating to the diarists and their daily lives.
Faces of Union Soldiers at Fredericksburg
Author: Joseph Stahl & Matthew BordersPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467151270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Look into the eyes of these soldiers and see the faces of those who dared to stare into the face of Death. The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought December 11-15, 1862, is often remembered for the seemingly futile attacks by the Army of the Potomac against dug in Confederates on Marye's Heights. Less well understood is the fighting south of the heights on what has become known as Slaughter Pen Farm. In this work the images of thirty Union soldiers are published for the first time. They give a face and history to those men who struggled across that bloody landscape, as well as to those that charged up the slope of Marye's Heights into Confederate fire. Authors Matthew Borders and Joseph Stahl introduce you to these men, their stories and their sacrifice on the bullet swept battlefield of Fredericksburg.
Horses and Mules in the Civil War
Author: Gene C. ArmisteadPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786473630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Horses and mules served during the Civil War in greater number and suffered more casualties than the men of the Union and Confederate armies combined. Using firsthand accounts, this history addresses the many uses of equines during the war, the methods by which they were obtained, their costs, their suffering on the battlefields and roads, their consumption by soldiers, and such topics as racing and mounted music. The book is supplemented by accounts of the "Lightning Mule Brigade," the "Charge of the Mule Brigade," five appendices and 37 illustrations. More than 700 Civil War equines are identified and described with incidental information and identification of their masters.
The 126th Pennsylvania
Author: Ted AlexanderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895-1902
Author: Carnegie Library of PittsburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
In the Presence of Mine Enemies: The Civil War in the Heart of America, 1859-1864
Author: Edward L. AyersPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393247430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize: Through a gripping narrative based on massive new research, a leading historian reshapes our understanding of the Civil War. Our standard Civil War histories tell a reassuring story of the triumph, in an inevitable conflict, of the dynamic, free-labor North over the traditional, slave-based South, vindicating the freedom principles built into the nation's foundations. But at the time, on the borderlands of Pennsylvania and Virginia, no one expected war, and no one knew how it would turn out. The one certainty was that any war between the states would be fought in their fields and streets. Edward L. Ayers gives us a different Civil War, built on an intimate scale. He charts the descent into war in the Great Valley spanning Pennsylvania and Virginia. Connected by strong ties of every kind, including the tendrils of slavery, the people of this borderland sought alternatives to secession and war. When none remained, they took up war with startling intensity. As this book relays with a vivid immediacy, it came to their doorsteps in hunger, disease, and measureless death. Ayers's Civil War emerges from the lives of everyday people as well as those who helped shape history—John Brown and Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, Jackson, and Lee. His story ends with the valley ravaged, Lincoln's support fragmenting, and Confederate forces massing for a battle at Gettysburg.
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Author: Edward L AyersPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393326017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Ayers gives readers the Civil War on an intimate scale. His masterful narrative conveys the coming of war and its bloody encounters through the eyes of those who sacrificed, fought, and died.