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Category : Gallia County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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History of Gallia County
Author: Gallia County, Ohio people in history
Author: Gallia County Historical Society. Gallipolis, OhioPublisher:
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Category : Gallia County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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History of Gallia County
Author: The Pioneer History of Meigs County
Author: Stillman Carter LarkinPublisher:
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Category : Meigs County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A History of Scioto County, Ohio
Author: Nelson Wiley EvansPublisher: Portsmouth, Ohio, N. W. Evans
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Category : Scioto County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
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Gallia County, Ohio (Bicentennial)
Author: Gallia County Historical SocietyPublisher: Turner
ISBN: 9781563118746
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(From interior)This book is dedicated to the people, businesses, churches and organizations of Gallia County as it celebrates, along with the great State of Ohio, the 200th anniversary of the year both became part of the United States of America.
Gallia County, Ohio (Bicentennial)
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1681624990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1177
Book Description
(From interior)This book is dedicated to the people, businesses, churches and organizations of Gallia County as it celebrates, along with the great State of Ohio, the 200th anniversary of the year both became part of the United States of America.
Grant and Sherman
Author: Charles Bracelen FloodPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429968915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
This dual Civil War biography presents “[a] powerful and illuminating study of a military collaboration that won the war for the Union” (Josiah Bunting III, Washington Post). “We were as brothers,” William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship to Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible. They were prewar failures: Grant was forced to resign from the Regular Army because of his drinking, and Sherman had moved from one job to the next in the years before the conflict. But heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled past political hurdles to join the war effort. And after taking each other’s measure at the Battle of Shiloh, they began their unique collaboration. Often together under fire on the war’s great battlefields, they also supported each other in the face of mudslinging criticism by the press and politicians. Sharing the demands of family life and the heartache of loss, they built a mutual admiration and trust which President Lincoln increasingly relied upon. Though their headquarters were hundreds of miles apart, they communicated almost daily, strategizing the final moves of the war and planning how to win the peace that would follow.
The Silver Bridge Disaster of 1967
Author: Stephan G. BullardPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 162517165X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Point Pleasant’s Silver Bridge, the first eyebar suspension bridge in the United States, was an engineering marvel when it was constructed in 1927 and 1928. Located on US Highway 35, the bridge spanned the Ohio River and linked Point Pleasant, West Virginia, with the towns of Kanauga and Gallipolis, Ohio. For almost 40 years, the structure provided dependable service for travelers in the region. On December 15, 1967, this service came to a dramatic and disastrous end. At 4:58 p.m., during the height of rush hour, the bridge suddenly collapsed. Rescue and recovery operations started immediately but were hampered by poor weather conditions and freezing rain. The cause of the collapse was linked to the bridge’s innovative design. Undetected corrosion stress cracks caused an eyebar on the Ohio side to fracture; because the eyebars were linked together in a chain, the failure of one led to the catastrophic collapse of the entire bridge. In total, 46 lives were lost in the disaster.
Calvinists Incorporated
Author: Anne Kelly KnowlesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226448533
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of rural capitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, Knowles explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. Knowles draws on a wide variety of sources, including obituaries and community histories, to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1,700 immigrants. The resulting account will find appreciative readers not only among historical geographers, but also among American economic historians and historians of religion.