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Author: Jesse Rice Publisher: ISBN: Category : Farmers Languages : en Pages :
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Diaries kept by Jesse Rice of Cheshire, Connecticut. Rice was a farmer and recorded his daily work activities. Each entry also includes mention of the weather, occasionally with thermometer readings. Rice noted local deaths at the top of the pages, particularly in the second volume.
Author: Jesse Rice Publisher: ISBN: Category : Farmers Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Diaries kept by Jesse Rice of Cheshire, Connecticut. Rice was a farmer and recorded his daily work activities. Each entry also includes mention of the weather, occasionally with thermometer readings. Rice noted local deaths at the top of the pages, particularly in the second volume.
Author: Jessie Louise Many Rice Publisher: ISBN: Category : American diaries Languages : en Pages : 15
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This collection of diaries was kept by Jessie Louise Many Rice spanning the years from 1909 to 1930. Each volume was written in a preprinted pocket calendar comprising brief daily entries by Rice. The first thirteen volumes span the years from 1909 to 1921. A gap of eight years precedes the last volume written by Rice dated June 1929 to December 1930. Rice recorded factual events throughout the diaries with scant indication of her feelings or emotions. Each daily entry begins with a brief observation of the weather followed by daily tasks and social interactions. Rice sewed nearly every day, baked bread with her mother, farmed a garden, tended to chickens, and cleaned the house. She traveled to Blooming Grove and took the train to Newburgh for shopping and selling wares. In addition, Rice delivered items she sold throughout Orange County. She noted when she attended church and who was preached. Aside from her mother, Jessie Rice had the consistent presence of her sister Alice and her Uncle C. (possibly Charlie) along with nieces, friends, and other visitors. She mentioned dinners and playing card games such as whist and rummy. In the winter she noted going on sleigh rides. Jessie attended meetings and dances at the local Grange, lectures, and movies and plays in Newburgh, and visiting the library and books she read. Jessie noted a local club named the "Bachelor girls" who gathered for dinners and games. Jessie and her mother Emma Many also worked as servers at the Athenia Club in Washingtonville. Jessie first mentioned her husband Harry Rice in 1914. She wrote of exchanging letters and seeing him occasionally. In February 1915 Jessie wrote Harry was there and "announcements came tonight." Following this entry Jessie wrote of looking at houses with Mother Rice, Harry's mother. In December 1915 Rice recorded the birth and death of their daughter Helen Geraldine. Harry Rice is rarely mentioned after December 1915, other than Jessie received letters or met him in Newburgh. Included at the end of each volume is account information, such as payments, items purchased, and monies received. A few medicinal recipes appear in some volumes. Lists of Christmas gifts received and given appear in each volume. Some of the volumes have items laid in such as, a photograph, clippings of quotations, notes, and three of her calling cards. Volume 15 was written by Emma J. Many. The volume is a 1916 pocket calendar containing sporadic entries, Christmas gift lists dated from 1916 to 1934 and lastly, a brief biography of Elias Gerow of Salisbury Mills, New York.
Author: John Banks Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625853114 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
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Over fifty thousand Connecticut soldiers served in the Union army during the Civil War, yet their stories are nearly forgotten today. Among the regiments that served, at least forty sets of brothers perished from battlefield wounds or disease. Little known is the 16th Connecticut chaplain who, as prisoner of war, boldly disregarded a Rebel commander's order forbidding him to pray aloud for President Lincoln. Then there is the story of the 7th Connecticut private who murdered a fellow soldier in the heat of battle and believed the man's ghost returned to torment him. Seven soldiers from Connecticut tragically drowned two weeks after the war officially ended when their ship collided with another vessel on the Potomac. Join author John Banks as he shines a light on many of these forgotten Connecticut Yankees.
Author: George C. Rable Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807863963 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 625
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Although much has been written about the ways in which Confederate politics affected the course of the Civil War, George Rable is the first historian to investigate Confederate political culture in its own right. Focusing on the assumptions, values, and beliefs that formed the foundation of Confederate political ideology, Rable reveals how southerners attempted to purify the political process and avoid what they saw as the evils of parties and partisanship. According to Rable, secession marked the beginning of a revolution against politics, in which the Confederacy's founding fathers saw themselves as the true heirs of the American Revolution. Nevertheless, factionalism developed as the war dragged on, with Confederate nationalists emphasizing political unity and support for President Jefferson Davis's administration and libertarian dissenters warning of the dangers of a centralized Confederate government. Both sides claimed to be the legitimate defenders of a genuine southern republicanism and of Confederate nationalism, and the conflict between them carried over from the strictly political sphere to matters of military strategy, civil religion, and education. Rable concludes that despite the war's outcome, the Confederacy's antipolitical legacy had a profound impact on southern politics.
Author: Lowell H. Harrison Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813139406 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 144
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The Civil War scene in Kentucky, site of few full-scale battles, was one of crossroad skirmishes and guerrilla terror, of quick incursions against specific targets and equally quick withdrawals. Yet Kentucky was crucial to the military strategy of the war. For either side, a Kentucky held secure against the adversary would have meant easing of supply problems and an immeasurably stronger base of operations. The state, along with many of its institutions and many of its families, was hopelessly divided against itself. The fiercest partisans of the South tended to be doubtful about the wisdom of secession, and the staunchest Union men questioned the legality of many government measures. What this division meant militarily is made clear as Lowell H. Harrison traces the movement of troops and the outbreaks of violence. What it meant to the social and economic fabric of Kentucky and to its postwar political stance is another theme of this book. And not forgotten is the life of the ordinary citizen in the midst of such dissension and uncertainty.
Author: Jesse Rice
Author: Jesse Rice
Author: Jessie Louise Many Rice
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Author: John Banks
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