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Author : Dan Guillory
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738533041
Decatur, Illinois' nineteenth and twentieth century history is presented through vintage photographs.
Author : Dan Guillory
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 073853997X
Decatur has a long history of patriotic service, both on and off the field of battle. Decatur volunteers participated in six major campaigns including the Black Hawk War (1832), the Mexican War (1846–1848), the Civil War (1861–1865), the Spanish-American War (1898), World War I (1917–1918), and World War II (1941–1945). Their record of distinguished service includes the presence of five generals and six Congressional Medal of Honor winners in the Civil War. The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), the first national veterans' organization, was founded in Decatur immediately after the Civil War. In World War II, soldiers from Decatur served in North Africa, Italy, the Philippines, and Germany. Equally impressive, however, is the tradition of the Decatur Canteen, which served food to transient soldiers from the time of the Civil War onward. Local volunteers rolled bandages, collected food, and recycled bales of paper and heaps of scrap metal. Citizens planted victory gardens and bought war bonds and savings stamps. Wartime Decatur: 1832–1945 documents the vigorous wartime culture based on community involvement and a strong sense of patriotism.
Author : Joe Earle
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0738586242
Decatur proudly proclaims itself a city of "homes, schools, and places of worship." While that motto might seem to describe any number of small towns, the words accurately capture the essence of Decatur, a place of fine and humble homes, well-regarded schools, and large, active churches. Founded by the Georgia legislature in 1823 to be the county seat of DeKalb County, Decatur took its name from Commodore Stephen Decatur, a U.S. naval hero of the early 1800s. In the years since, Decatur has grown into a busy suburb of neighboring Atlanta, produced Agnes Scott College, and attracted both the Scottish Rite Children's Hospital and Columbia Theological Seminary. Decatur has been home to fascinating Georgians, including Civil War memoirist Mary Gay and writer Rebecca Latimer Felton, the first woman to be seated as a U.S. senator (if only for a day).
Author : Samuel Putnam Waldo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Electronic
ISBN : COLUMBIA:0046288945
Author : Alexander Slidell Mackenzie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433008497244
Author : Spencer C Tucker
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612515106
Brave, energetic, intensely patriotic, Stephen Decatur is America's first great naval hero after John Paul Jones. His short and dramatic life is a story of triumph and tragedy told by the noted historian and author of some twenty books, Spencer Tucker. Decatur's raid into Tripoli Harbor in 1804 to burn the Philadelphia, a prized U.S. warship captured when it ran aground during the Barbary Wars, earned him international fame. An admiring Horatio Nelson described the feat as "the most bold and daring act of the age." Explaining the tremendous impact Decatur's action had on the early U.S. Navy, the author notes that it set a standard of audacity and courage for generations of future naval officers. At the age of twenty-five, Decatur was promoted to captain, becoming the youngest naval officer ever to attain that rank in the U.S. Navy. The book fully examines Decatur's astonishing achievements as it chronicles his rapid rise in the Navy, including his command of the Constitution and the United States, during the War of 1812, when he captured the British frigate Macedonian off the Azores. The book also recounts the cruise that many call his greatest triumph: Decatur sailed into the Mediterranean with a nine-ship American squadron to punish the dey of Algiers for taking American merchant shipping, securing peace with Algiers and keeping other Barbary states quiescent. Lionized by a grateful American public upon his return, Decatur offered a toast at a reception in his honor that is now legendary, "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" In describing Decatur's life, the author also examines Decatur's relationship with James Barron, a Navy captain who fatally shot Decatur during a 1820 duel.
Author : Mark Barthelemy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781387566945
This fourth volume in the history of the Decatur, Illinois police department series covers 1920-1925.
Author : Charles Lee Lewis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781512803877
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030134399
Author : Mark Lardas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849083751
On a dark night in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a team of hand-picked men, slipped into Tripoli harbor in a small boat. Their target was the USS Philadelphia. Captured by the Barbary pirates four months previously, the Philadelphia had been refitted to fight against her former masters. Decatur's mission was to either recapture the ship, or failing that, burn her to the waterline. This book recounts one of the greatest raids in American military history, an event that propelled Stephen Decatur to international renown, and which prompted Horatio Nelson to declare it 'the most bold and daring act of the age'.
Author : Mark Barthelemy
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781387528578
This third volulme in the history of the Decatur, Illinois police department series covers the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Jim Maccracken
Publisher : Recreational Guides
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Decatur County Iowa Fishing & Floating Guide Book Over 225 full 8 ½ x 11 sized pages of information with maps and aerial photographs available. Fishing information is included for ALL of the county’s public ponds and lakes, listing types of fish for each pond or lake, average sizes, and exact locations with GPS coordinates and directions. Also included is fishing information for most of the streams and rivers including access points and public areas with road contact and crossing points and also includes fish types and average sizes. NEW NEW Now with a complete set of full sized U.S.G.S. Topographical Maps for the entire county that normally cost from $12.00 to $14.00 each but are included on the disk for FREE. These maps are complete full sized 7.5 minute series quadrangle maps in 1:24,000 scale maps. Contains complete information on Caleb Creek (F) Elk Creek Jonathan Creek Lamoni Lakes & Ponds Lick Branch Little River (F) Little River Lakes Long Creeks Nine Eagle Lake Sand Creek (F) Slipbluff Lake Steel Creek (F) Thompson River (F) and theWeldon River (F) (F) means floatable stream or river
Author : Walter R. Green, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476688527
The Nashville and Decatur Railroad was in operation five months before the start of the Civil War and 17 months before the Federals took control of Nashville and the railroad. Running through Central Tennessee to Alabama, the highly contested line passed through Confederate-held territory, where rebels and their sympathizers continually sabotaged bridges, trestles and track. This first full-length work on the N&D Railroad emphasizes its importance in the Western Theater and brings to light the four key men who kept it open for the duration of the war. Significant military activities in the region are described, along with the contraband camp, military complex and other features surrounding the railroad's only tunnel.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030182893
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030110068