Author: Indiana. Adjutant General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana ...
Author: Indiana. Adjutant General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Quadrennial Report of the Adjutant General
Author: California. Adjutant General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Reports on the activities of the Office of the Adjutant General and of the strength and condition of the California National Guard.
Monthly Bulletin
Author: Indiana State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Finding Your African American Ancestors
Author: David T. ThackeryPublisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9780916489908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.
On Jordan's Banks
Author: Darrel E. BighamPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813188318
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 607
Book Description
The story of the Ohio River and its settlements are an integral part of American history, particularly during the country's westward expansion. The vibrant African American communities along the Ohio's banks, however, have rarely been studied in depth. Blacks have lived in the Ohio River Valley since the late eighteenth century, and since the river divided the free labor North and the slave labor South, black communities faced unique challenges. In On Jordan's Banks, Darrel E. Bigham examines the lives of African Americans in the counties along the northern and southern banks of the Ohio River both before and in the years directly following the Civil War. Gleaning material from biographies and primary sources written as early as the 1860s, as well as public records, Bigham separates historical truth from the legends that grew up surrounding these communities. The Ohio River may have separated freedom and slavery, but it was not a barrier to the racial prejudice in the region. Bigham compares early black communities on the northern shore with their southern counterparts, noting that many similarities existed despite the fact that the Roebling Suspension Bridge, constructed in 1866 at Cincinnati, was the first bridge to join the shores. Free blacks in the lower Midwest had difficulty finding employment and adequate housing. Education for their children was severely restricted if not completely forbidden, and blacks could neither vote nor testify against whites in court. Indiana and Illinois passed laws to prevent black migrants from settling within their borders, and blacks already living in those states were pressured to leave. Despite these challenges, black river communities continued to thrive during slavery, after emancipation, and throughout the Jim Crow era. Families were established despite forced separations and the lack of legally recognized marriages. Blacks were subjected to intimidation and violence on both shores and were denied even the most basic state-supported services. As a result, communities were left to devise their own strategies for preventing homelessness, disease, and unemployment. Bigham chronicles the lives of blacks in small river towns and urban centers alike and shows how family, community, and education were central to their development as free citizens. These local histories and life stories are an important part of understanding the evolution of race relations in a critical American region. On Jordan's Banks documents the developing patterns of employment, housing, education, and religious and cultural life that would later shape African American communities during the Jim Crow era and well into the twentieth century.
The Hoosier Genealogist
Author: Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill
Author: John Henry OttoPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873387996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Captain John Henry Otto was a keen observer; his memoirs paint a vivid picture of the life of a common soldier and of a line officer at the company level during the Civil War.
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the United States, September 5, 1774-March 4, 1881
Author: Benjamin Perley PoorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1861-65)
Author: United States. Surgeon-General's OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368824422
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.