Gettysburg
Author: Champ Clark
Publisher:
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780809447589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Text and illustrations describe the events before, during and after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Author: Champ Clark
Publisher:
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780809447589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Text and illustrations describe the events before, during and after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Author: Scott L. Mingus
Publisher:
Published: 2011-04-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780983364009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Pennsylvania border county of York and its people stood smack in the middle of things - where South met North - in the American Civil War. That war roiled York County from its tip near the capital of Harrisburg to its 40-mile base at the Mason-Dixon Line. Union soldiers moved to the South after seasoning and staging on county soil. Train cars dripping with blood carried many wounded and diseased soldiers back to a mammoth U.S. military hospital on York parkland. Thousands of York County residents donned blue uniforms, and untold scores died. The war marched onto county soil in those terrible days before the Battle of Gettysburg. The four-day Confederate visit drained money, food, supplies, and horseflesh. Soldiers in blue and gray died in fighting at Hanover and Wrightsville. Gettysburg came next, and county residents gathered food and supplies to treat the wounds of battle, a short 30 miles away. In "Civil War Voices from York County, Pa.," Scott L. Mingus Sr. and James McClure use oral histories, letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts to tell the stories of York countians in those bleak days, 150 years ago. They give a vibrant voice to those living, serving, and dying in a border county in this most tumultuous period in America's history.
Author: Charles W. Mitchell
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2007-07
Total Pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780801886218
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most contentious event in our nation's history, the Civil War deeply divided families, friends, and communities. Both sides fought to define the conflict on their own terms -- Lincoln and his supporters struggled to preserve the Union and end slavery, while the Confederacy waged a battle for the primacy of local liberty or "states' rights." But the war had its own peculiar effects on the four border slave states that remained loyal to the Union. Internal disputes and shifting allegiances injected uncertainty, apprehension, and violence into the everyday lives of their citizens. No state better exemplified the vital role of a border state than Maryland -- where the passage of time has not dampened debates over issues such as the alleged right of secession and executive power versus civil liberties in wartime. In Maryland Voices of the Civil War, Charles W. Mitchell draws upon hundreds of letters, diaries, and period newspapers to portray the passions of a wide variety of people -- merchants, slaves, soldiers, politicians, freedmen, women, clergy, civic leaders, and children -- caught in the emotional vise of war. Mitchell reinforces the provocative notion that Maryland's Southern sympathies -- while genuine -- never seriously threatened to bring about a Confederate Maryland. Maryland Voices of the Civil War illuminates the human complexities of the Civil War era and the political realignment that enabled Marylanders to abolish slavery in their state before the end of the war.
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Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1455613665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Relates, through illustrations and short passages, events of the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg and its aftermath as seen through the eyes of soldiers, from generals to privates, as well as various civilians. Includes historical notes.
Author: Jim Slade
Publisher: Schiffer Military History
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764306181
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eyewitness accounts of Gettysburg citizens, June-November, 1863.
Author: Richard Wheeler
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2006-01-20
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0811741567
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the events that led to the clash at Gettysburg in July 1863 to the retreat of Robert E. Lee's defeated Confederates, Richard Wheeler uses the words of participants--both Northern and Southern--to bring one of the Civil War's bloodiest, most pivotal battles to life.
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780783547107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains primary source material in the form of personal recollections from letters, diaries, photographs, sketches, and artifacts of both soldiers and civilians.
Author: Carleton Young
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780996843010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Imagine clearing out your family attic and discovering hundreds of Civil War letters, filled with depth and insight about battles and army life, but not knowing why the letters were there. Using the resources of Ancestry.com and other sources, the author discovers how two Vermont soldiers fit into his family heritage and uses their letters to weave together their war-time story along with the stories of friends and relatives who fought by their side. Voices From the Attic tells the story of two brothers who witnessed and helped to make history by fighting in the Peninsula Campaign, then at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Cedar Creek. They then helped to preserve that history through their many detailed letters that have now been re-discovered after being stored away for one and a half centuries.
Author: Laurie Calkhoven
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-02-16
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0142419877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1863, 12-year-old Will, who longs to be a drummer in the Union army, is stuck in his sleepy hometown of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. But when the Union and Confederate armies meet, he and his family are caught up in the fight.