Author: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1861-1865)Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Campaigns of the Fifty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Author: United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1861-1865)Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Author: Michael A. HalleranPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817316957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The first in-depth study of the Freemasons during the Civil War From first-person accounts culled from regimental histories, diaries, and letters, Michael A. Halleran has constructed an overview of 19th-century American freemasonry. The author examines carefully the major Masonic stories from the Civil War, in particular the myth that Confederate Lewis A. Armistead made the Masonic sign of distress as he lay dying at the high-water mark of Pickett's charge at Gettysburg.
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DeptPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the History of the Americas
Author: New York Public Library. Reference DepartmentPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
History of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon
Author: William Henry EglePublisher:
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Category : Dauphin County
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5
Author: Samuel Penniman BatesPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
Book Description
Engineers of Independence
Author: Paul K. WalkerPublisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 9781410201737
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
This collection of documents, including many previously unpublished, details the role of the Army engineers in the American Revolution. Lacking trained military engineers, the Americans relied heavily on foreign officers, mostly from France, for sorely needed technical assistance. Native Americans joined the foreign engineer officers to plan and carry out offensive and defensive operations, direct the erection of fortifications, map vital terrain, and lay out encampments. During the war Congress created the Corps of Engineers with three companies of engineer troops as well as a separate geographer's department to assist the engineers with mapping. Both General George Washington and Major General Louis Lebéque Duportail, his third and longest serving Chief Engineer, recognized the disadvantages of relying on foreign powers to fill the Army's crucial need for engineers. America, they contended, must train its own engineers for the future. Accordingly, at the war's end, they suggested maintaining a peacetime engineering establishment and creating a military academy. However, Congress rejected the proposals, and the Corps of Engineers and its companies of sappers and miners mustered out of service. Eleven years passed before Congress authorized a new establishment, the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers.
History of the State of Kansas
Author: Alfred Theodore AndreasPublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
History of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (1893)
Author: Henry C BradsbyPublisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781498147750
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1893 Edition.