Author: Ernest G. WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
The Civil War Centennial History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: Ernest G. WellsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: Robert Burns BeathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: Robert Burns BeathPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781019386040
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the Grand Army of the Republic, the largest organization of Union Civil War veterans in the United States. Covering topics such as the formation of the organization, its activities, and its members, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of Union veterans in the late 19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies
Author: J. Worth CarnahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Glorious Contentment
Author: Stuart McConnellPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807863300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations, was the most powerful single-issue political lobby of the late nineteenth century, securing massive pensions for veterans and helping to elect five postwar presidents from its own membership. To its members, it was also a secret fraternal order, a source of local charity, a provider of entertainment in small municipalities, and a patriotic organization. Using GAR convention proceedings, newspapers, songs, rule books, and local post records, Stuart McConnell examines this influential veterans' association during the years of its greatest strength. Beginning with a close look at the men who joined the GAR in three localities -- Philadelphia; Brockton, Massachusetts; and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin - McConnell goes on to examine the Union veterans' attitudes towards their former Confederate enemies and toward a whole range of noncombatants whom the verterans called "civilians": stay-at-home townsfolk, Mugwump penion reformers, freedmen, women, and their own sons and daughters. In the GAR, McConnell sees a group of veterans trying to cope with questions concerning the extent of society's obligation to the poor and injured, the place of war memories in peacetime, and the meaning of the "nation" and the individual's relation to it. McConnell aruges that, by the 1890s, the GAR was clinging to a preservationist version of American nationalism that many white, middle-class Northerners found congenial in the face of the social upheavals of that decade. In effect, he concludes, the nineteenth-century career of the GAR is a study in the microcosm of a nation trying to hold fast to an older image of itself in the face of massive social change.
The centennial history of the Civil War
Author: Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies...
Author: J. Worth CarnahanPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781314973679
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Civil War Centennial Handbook
Author: William H. PricePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
This book focuses on the Civil War, which began in the 1830s as a cold war and moved toward the inevitable conflict somewhere between 1850 and 1860, which was one of America's greatest emotional experiences. It tells a story of the human toil and machinery that produced more than four million small arms for the Union Army and stamped from copper over one billion percussion caps for these weapons during the four years of war. It is the purpose of "The Civil War Centennial Handbook" to present this unusual story of the Civil War, a mosaic composed of fragments from the lesser-known and yet colorful facts that have survived a century but have been obscured by the voluminous battle narratives and campaign studies. The handbook is divided into five basic parts. The first is a presentation of little-known and unusual facts about participants, battles and losses, and the cost of war. The second is a graphic portrayal of both the men and machines that made the war of the 1860s. The special selection of photographs for this portion of the story was made available courtesy of the National Archives and the Library of Congress. Next are reproductions in color of Union and Confederate uniforms from the Official Records Atlas and the famous paintings by H. A. Ogden. The fourth section is a reference table of battles and losses listed in chronological order, accompanied by a map showing the major engagements of the war. And primarily for the growing number of new Civil War buffs, there is a roster of Civil War Round Tables, as well as a recommended list of outstanding books on the Civil War.
History of the Grand Army of the Republic
Author: J. Worth CarnahanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies (Classic Reprint)
Author: J. Worth CarnahanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331100164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Excerpt from Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies This book is respectfully submitted to the public as a convenient reference to the battles and engagements of the Civil War, Enlistments from the different States, divisions and subdivisions of the Union Army, Officers in the order of their rank and the principles, objects, etc., of the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies. It is also intended to serve as a companion or key to the picture entitled "The Easel Monument Souvenir." Its place is on the center table, a ready answer to all questions suggested by a study of said picture and affording, at the same time, an appropriate means for preserving the Record of Service, also a copy of the Honorable Discharge of the soldier with whose name the said picture is engrossed, and in this way hand the same down to posterity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.