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Category : Augusta County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Correspondence of the McCutchan family of Augusta County, Va., chiefly with relatives who had settled in Indiana.
Correspondence of the McCutchan Family
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Augusta County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
Correspondence of the McCutchan family of Augusta County, Va., chiefly with relatives who had settled in Indiana.
Letter Concerning the McCutcheon (McCutchan, McCutchen) Family of Pennsylvania and Virginia
Author: The McCutchan Family
Author: McCutchan familyA Brotherhood of Valor
Author: Jeffry D. WertPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501128302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This unusual and moving chronicle covers some of the most important battles of the Civil War—Sharpsburg (Antietam), Gettysburg, and Chancellorsville—through the stories of the two brigades who confronted each other on the bloody fields of battle. Drawing on original source material, Jeffry Wert reconstructs the drama and terrors of war through the eyes of the ordinary men who became members of two of the most respected fighting units of their respective armies, the Stonewall Brigade of the Confederacy and the Iron Brigade of the Union. There are tales of grueling marches and almost unbearable deprivations; eyewitness accounts of ferocious fighting and devastating losses on both sides; and portraits of acts of courage and valor performed by soldiers and officers who, despite the difficulties they faced, remained dedicated to the cause for which they were fighting.
An Archaeology of Desperation
Author: Kelly J. DixonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080618552X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
The Donner Party is almost inextricably linked with cannibalism. In truth, we know remarkably little about what actually happened to the starving travelers stranded in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–47. Combining the approaches of history, ethnohistory, archaeology, bioarchaeology, and social anthropology, this innovative look at the Donner Party’s experience at the Alder Creek Camp offers insights into many long-unsolved mysteries. Centered on archaeological investigations in the summers of 2003 and 2004 near Truckee, California, the book includes detailed analyses of artifacts and bones that suggest what life was like in this survival camp. Microscopic investigations of tiny bone fragments reveal butchery scars and microstructure that illuminate what the Donner families may have eaten before the final days of desperation, how they prepared what served as food, and whether they actually butchered and ate their deceased companions. The contributors reassess old data with new analytic techniques and, by examining both physical evidence and oral testimony from observers and survivors, add new dimensions to the historical narrative. The authors’ integration of a variety of approaches—including narratives of the Washoe Indians who observed the Donner Party—destroys some myths, deconstructs much of the folklore about the stranded party, and demonstrates that novel approaches can shed new light on events we thought we understood.
McCutchan (McCutchen) Family of Augusta County, Virginia
Author: Nature's Civil War
Author: Kathryn J. ShivelyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In the Shenandoah Valley and Peninsula Campaigns of 1862, Union and Confederate soldiers faced unfamiliar and harsh environmental conditions--strange terrain, tainted water, swarms of flies and mosquitoes, interminable rain and snow storms, and oppressive heat--which contributed to escalating disease and diminished morale. Using soldiers' letters, diaries, and memoirs, plus a wealth of additional personal accounts, medical sources, newspapers, and government documents, Kathryn Shively Meier reveals how these soldiers strove to maintain their physical and mental health by combating their deadliest enemy--nature. Meier explores how soldiers forged informal networks of health care based on prewar civilian experience and adopted a universal set of self-care habits, including boiling water, altering camp terrain, eradicating insects, supplementing their diets with fruits and vegetables, constructing protective shelters, and most controversially, straggling. In order to improve their health, soldiers periodically had to adjust their ideas of manliness, class values, and race to the circumstances at hand. While self-care often proved superior to relying upon the inchoate military medical infrastructure, commanders chastised soldiers for testing army discipline, ultimately redrawing the boundaries of informal health care.
The McCutchan Family of Augusta and Rockbridge Co., Va
Author: Allen G. HamannWhile God is Marching on
Author: Steven E. WoodworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The American Civil War not only pitted brother against brother but Christian against Christian. This is a study of soldiers' religious beliefs and how they influenced the course of that tragic conflict. It shows how Christian teaching and practice shaped the worldview of soldiers on both sides.
Subject Collections
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Category : Library resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
A guide to special book collections and subject emphases as reported by university, college, public, and special libraries and museums in the United States and Canada.