The Civil War Memoir Of Sgt Christian Lenker 19th Ohio Volunteers

Author : Judith A. Kennedy,Michael Barton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781499067804

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The Civil War Memoir of Sgt. Christian Lenker, 19Th Ohio Volunteers by Judith A. Kennedy,Michael Barton Pdf

The Civil War Memoir of Sgt. Christian Lenker, 19th Ohio Volunteers, was originally published as a series of 174 articles appearing from 1912 to 1915 in the Pottsville (PA) Evening Chronicle. The authorat that time a physician practicing in nearby Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvaniahad been invited by the editor to describe his service fifty years earlier in an Ohio regiment fighting in the western theater. Composing his articles from field notes and letters, Dr. Lenker tells in great detail his regiments fighting at Shiloh, Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Picketts Mill, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, and Nashville. The editors, assisted by students, have transcribed and edited the memoir from the only surviving newspaper articles. They have also provided annotations and written introductory essays.

Author : Michael Barton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499067798

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The Civil War Memoir of Sgt. Christian Lenker, 19th Ohio Volunteers by Michael Barton Pdf

Author : Michael Barton,Charles Kupfer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493041763

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Remembering the Civil War by Michael Barton,Charles Kupfer Pdf

In the years following the American Civil War, many participants—generals, politicians, journalists, and soldiers—authored first-hand accounts of their unique experiences. As Alfred E. Smith of the Library of Congress wrote in 1998, “No chapter of American history has been so voluminously recorded.” While the quality and reliability of the memoirs vary, a large number provide important perspectives that, taken together, offer vivid descriptions of major battles, political developments, and other momentous events from Fort Sumter to Appomattox. In Remembering the Civil War, historians Michael Barton and Charles Kupfer carefully select excerpts from the memoirs of key participants and weave them together to tell the story of the war in a single volume. Contributors include Union generals Ulysses Grant, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, W.T. Sherman, Abner Doubleday, and Philip Sheridan. Confederate authors include Robert E. Lee, Gen. James Longstreet, Cpl. Sam Watkins, Lt. John W. Worsham, Col. Edward Porter Alexander, Capt. John Wilkinson, and Jefferson Davies. Personal documents provide soldiers’ perspectives of what fighting was like on the ground, as well as hospital and prison life. A comprehensive introduction and headnote for each excerpt provide background information and context.

Author : Sarah Handley-Cousins
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820355184

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Bodies in Blue by Sarah Handley-Cousins Pdf

"Disabled soldiers and veterans occupied a difficult space in the Civil War North. The realities of living with a disability were ever at odds with the expectations of manhood. Disability made it difficult for soldiers to adhere to the particular masculine standards of the Union Army, yet when soldiers were able to control their bodies in order to fit manly ideals, they were met with suspicion when they requested accommodation or support. The very definition of masculine disability was ever in dispute as soldiers, physicians, lawmakers, bureaucrats and civilians each questioned what made a war wound authentic. Further, they each pondered what role disabled soldiers should play, whether in the course of war, in the progression of medicine, or in Gilded Age politics. It is in this tension, between the demands of masculinity and the realities of disability, that we can see the murkier undercurrent of the history of disabled Civil War veterans: that even when surrounded by the triumphant cheers and sentimental sighs that praised war wounds as patriotic sacrifices, disabled Union veterans faced enormous difficulty as they negotiated a life spent walking the fine line between manliness and emasculation. Sarah Handley-Cousins's manuscript makes an important contribution to the burgeoning field of the Civil War veteran experience, Civil War medicine, masculinity, and the soldier transition to civilian life. She breaks new ground with her focus on invisible wounds, as most scholars have concentrated on amputees"--

Author : Charles Dana Miller
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873387856

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The Struggle for the Life of the Republic by Charles Dana Miller Pdf

Brevet Major Miller served as a regimental adjutant and rose in rank to captain. He describes in detail the hardships and routines of camp life and the battles from Fort Donelson to Jonesboro. This post-war memoir includes descriptions and impressions of such leaders as Ulysses S. Grant.

Author : John Calvin Hartzell
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ohio
ISBN : 9780821416068

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Ohio Volunteer by John Calvin Hartzell Pdf

"He also depicted the changing rural economy, the assimilation of the Pennsylvania Dutch, and the transformations wrought by coal mining and the iron industry. Hartzell felt individualism was threatened by the Industrial Revolution and the cruelties of the war. He found his faith in humanity affirmed - and the dramatic tension in his memoir resolved - when 136,000 Union soldiers reenlisted and assured victory for the North."--Jacket.

Author : Robert I. Girardi,Lynne Crumpacker
Publisher : Trafford on Demand Pub
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425178871

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Campaigning with Uncle Billy by Robert I. Girardi,Lynne Crumpacker Pdf

Campaigning with Uncle Billy is the vividly descriptive Civil War memoir of an Illinois infantryman who served in the Western Theater with Army of the Cumberland during the American Civil War.

Author : Larry M. Logue,Michael Barton
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814752043

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The Civil War Veteran by Larry M. Logue,Michael Barton Pdf

The Civil War Veteran presents a profound but often troubling story of the postwar experiences of Union and Confederate Civil War veterans. Most ex-soldiers and their neighbors readjusted smoothly. However, many arrived home with or developed serious problems; poverty, drug and alcohol addiction, and other manifestations of post traumatic stress syndrome, such as flashbacks and paranoia, plagued these veterans. Black veterans in particular suffered a particularly cruel fate: they fought with distinction and for their freedom, but postwar racism obliterated recognition of their wartime contributions. Despite these hardships, veterans found some help from federal and state governments, through the establishment of a national pension system and soldiers' homes. Yet veterans did not passively accept this assistance—some influenced and created policy in public office, while others joined together in veterans’ organizations such as the Grand Army of the Republic to fight for their rights and to shape the collective memory of the Civil War. As the number of veterans from wars in the Middle East rapidly increases, the stories in the pages of The Civil War Veteran give us valuable perspective on the challenges of readjustment for ex-soldiers and American society.

Author : Michael Barton,Simon J. Bronner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738557420

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Steelton by Michael Barton,Simon J. Bronner Pdf

For much of the 20th century, the name Steelton represented a great industrial complex that stretched nearly four miles along the Susquehanna River near the state's capital of Harrisburg. Immigrants from all over Europe, particularly Slavs and Italians, worked with African Americans from the South at the Bethlehem Steel Company and gave Steelton its reputation for ethnic diversity, second only to its fame for industrial productivity. Catholics, Protestants, and Jews filled the town's various houses of worship, but the taverns on Front Street, across from the mill, were crowded too. The town's powerful athletes were often state champions, beating schools many times larger. The townsmen were all proud as well of their loyal service in U.S. forces in the two world wars. The vintage images in Steelton chronicle the history of this exceptional and diverse community.

Author : Paul B. Beers
Publisher : Midtown Scholar Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 098395710X

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City Contented, City Discontented by Paul B. Beers Pdf

In City Contented, City Discontented: A History of Modern Harrisburg, award-winning journalist Paul Beers (1931-2011) reveals how contemporary Harrisburg came to be what it is. In a masterful series of essays, Beers charts the capital's development from a City Beautiful, with its celebrated public spaces and premier educational institutions, through the fractures of race riots and the catastrophic challenges of flood and near-nuclear meltdown. Beers employs the well-honed skills of a veteran reporter to craft fascinating character sketches of prominent leaders and humble citizens alike, intertwining their dramatic personal stories with a compelling survey of the region's society, politics, and culture in the twentieth century.

Author : Michael Barton,Larry M. Logue
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814798799

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The Civil War Soldier by Michael Barton,Larry M. Logue Pdf

In 1943, Bell Wiley's groundbreaking book Johnny Reb launched a new area of study: the history of the common soldier in the U.S. Civil War. This anthology brings together in one landmark volume over one hundred years of the best writing on the common soldier, from an account of life as a Confederate soldier written in 1882 to selections of Wiley's classic scholarship, and from the story of women who joined the army disguised as men to an essay on the soldier's art of dying.

Author : William Henry Egle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044098881428

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Notes and Queries by William Henry Egle Pdf

Author : E. Winfield Scott Parthemore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89062857222

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Genealogy of the Ludwig Bretz Family, 1750-1890 by E. Winfield Scott Parthemore Pdf

Author : Adolf W Schalck,David C Henning
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297615913

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History of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania by Adolf W Schalck,David C Henning Pdf

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Author : Sir John Ross,Sir James Clark Ross
Publisher : London : Orlando Hodgson
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : BCUL:1092071056

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Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions During the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 by Sir John Ross,Sir James Clark Ross Pdf