Author: United States. War Department. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1154

View

Book Description

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 100

View

Book Description

Author: Brett Barker
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870203398
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 92

View

Book Description
The innovative format of Exploring Civil War Wisconsin makes it easy for Civil War buffs, genealogists, and students to find and effectively use the vast array of historical materials about the Civil War found in archives, military and census records, published firsthand accounts, newspapers, and even on the Internet. This lively, illustrated guide focuses on Wisconsin in the Civil War, but is broadly applicable to Civil War research anywhere. Images of original documents and historic photographs illustrate every chapter, acquainting readers with both the Civil War and its sources. The easy-to-use and informative text is unlike anything else currently on the market. Throughout the book, boxed features and sidebars provide background information and tips on how to do research. Author Brett Barker explains how to uncover the history of an individual soldier, his regiment, and his role in the Union Army using rosters, military records, pension files, and memoirs. And, he shows how to explore the home front during the war using the census, newspapers, city directories, and government records.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 392

View

Book Description

Author: James Alan Marten
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820343226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214

View

Book Description
James Tanner may be the most famous person in nineteenth-century America that no one has heard of. During his service in the Union army, he lost the lower third of both his legs and afterward had to reinvent himself. After a brush with fame as the stenographer taking down testimony a few feet away from the dying President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, Tanner eventually became one of the best-known men in Gilded Age America. He was a highly placed Republican operative, a popular Grand Army of the Republic speaker, an entrepreneur, and a celebrity. He earned fame and at least temporary fortune as “Corporal Tanner,” but most Americans would simply have known him as “The Corporal.” Yet virtually no one—not even historians of the Civil War and Gilded Age— knows him today. America's Corporal rectifies this startling gap in our understanding of the decades that followed the Civil War. Drawing on a variety of primary sources including memoirs, lectures, newspapers, pension files, veterans' organization records, poetry, and political cartoons, James Marten brings Tanner's life and character into focus and shows what it meant to be a veteran— especially a disabled veteran—in an era that at first worshipped the saviors of the Union but then found ambiguity in their political power and insistence on collecting ever-larger pensions. This biography serves as an examination of the dynamics of disability, the culture and politics of the Gilded Age, and the aftereffects of the Civil War, including the philosophical and psychological changes that it prompted. The book explores the sometimes corrupt, often gridlocked, but always entertaining politics of the era, from Tanner's days as tax collector in Brooklyn through his short-lived appointment as commissioner of pensions (one of the biggest jobs in the federal government of the 1880s). Marten provides a vivid case study of a classic Gilded Age entrepreneur who could never make enough money. America's Corporal is a reflection on the creation of celebrity—and of its ultimate failure to preserve the memory of a man who represented so many of the experiences and assumptions of the Gilded Age. Published with the generous support of the Amanda and Greg Gregory Family Fund

Author: Steven J. Ramold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American sailors
Languages : en
Pages : 338

View

Book Description

Author: Donald Le Crone McMurry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 594

View

Book Description

Author: David A. Langkau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410

View

Book Description
Who was a veteran of Winnebago County is interpreted very broady and the information is much more than just military information.

Author: David A. Langkau
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398

View

Book Description
Who was a veteran of Winnebago County is interpreted very broady and the information is much more than just military information.

Author: Alice Eichholz
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9781593311667
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 812

View

Book Description
" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.