Author: S. M. CrannisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Do They Miss Me at Home?
Author: S. M. CrannisDo They Miss Me at Home?
Author: Donald C. ManessPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821443267
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
William McKnight was a member of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry from September 1862 until his death in June of 1864. During his time of service, McKnight penned dozens of emotion-filled letters, primarily to his wife, Samaria, revealing the struggles of an entire family both before and during the war. This collection of more than one hundred letters provides in-depth accounts of several battles in Kentucky and Tennessee, such as the Cumberland Gap and Knoxville campaigns that were pivotal events in the Western Theater. The letters also vividly respond to General John Hunt Morgan’s raid through Ohio and correct claims previously published that McKnight was part of the forces chasing Morgan. By all accounts Morgan did stay for a period of time at McKnight’s home in Langsville during his raid through Ohio, much to McKnight’s horror and humiliation, but McKnight was in Kentucky at the time. Tragically, McKnight was killed in action nearly a year later during an engagement with Morgan’s men near Cynthiana, Kentucky.
Southern War Songs: Camp-Fire, Patriotic and Sentimental
Author: William Long FaganPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465616640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The war songs of the South are a part of the history of the Lost Cause. They are necessary to the impartial historian in forming a correct estimate of the animus of the Southern people. Emotional literature is always a correct exponent of public sentiment, and these songs index the passionate sincerity of the South at the time they were written. Poetic merit is not claimed for all of them; still each one embodies either a fact or a principle. Written in an era of war, when the public mind was thoroughly aroused, some may now appear harsh and vindictive. Eight millions of people read and sang them. This fact alone warrants their collection and preservation. A greater number of the songs have been gathered from Southern newspapers. The task has been laborious, but still a labor of love, as no work of this kind has before been offered to the public.
Songs of the Civil War
Author: Irwin SilberPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486284387
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: New York: Columbia University Press, 1960.
Musical World and New York Musical Times
Author: Lilly Dale
Author: H. S. ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Clear the Track
Author: Phillip J. ReyburnPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477254145
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
With the air filled with the missiles of death, the bluecoats sought the shelter of mother earth and lay flat hugging the wet ground. The men were caught in an exposed position, and here occurred an incident, that would haunt William R. Hartpence of the Fifty-first Indiana as long as he lived. He observed First Lieutenant Peter G. Tait of the Eighty-ninth Illinois standing a little in advance of his regiment, which had intermingled with the Fifty-first during the assault. With his eyes fixed on the young officer, Hartpence watched as Tait was stuck by a cannon ball near the center of his body, tearing a great hole in the left side. As he fell, he threw his right arm around to his side, when his heart and left lung dropped out into it. The heart continued to throb for twenty minutes, its pulsations being distinctly seen by his agonized comrades, who stood there and saw the noble life fade out in heroic self-sacrifice. Battle of Nashville, December 16, 1864. In answer to Lincolns call for more men to put down the rebellion, the several trunk railroads centered in Chicago oversaw the organization of a regiment composed principally of railroad employees. Numbered the Eighty-ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, it was better known by the sobriquet, the Railroad Regiment. Considered one of the 300 hundred fighting regiments of the Union army, the Railroaders had 133 men killed in action or later died from wounds. Another 66 succumbed in rebel prisons. At the final muster, Colonel Charles T. Hotchkiss said it best: Our history is written on the head-boards of rudely-made graves. . . . Such a record we feel proud of. And indeed, it was. PHILIP J. REYBURN is a retired field representative for the Social Security Administration. With Terry L. Wilson, he edited Jottings from Dixie: The Civil War Dispatches of Sergeant Major Stephen F. Fleharty, U.S.A.
Check List of California Songs
Author: Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 1
Author: VariousPublisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040893124
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Author: Levi K. COONLEY