City Problems And Defense

Author : Samuel C. Logan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781332317059
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book City's Danger and Defense, Or Issues and Results of the Strikes of 1877 written by Samuel C. Logan and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from City's Danger and Defense, or Issues and Results of the Strikes of 1877: Containing the Origin and History of the Scranton City Guard For the past three years the propriety of preserving, in some form, the history of the Scranton City Guard, and of the crisis in the affairs of the city out of which this military organization grew, has been more or less agitated. The rapid changes, both in the constitution of the Guard, and in the population and business interests of the city, have given emphasis to the suggestion, that if this important chapter in the life of the Lackawanna Valley is to be preserved delay must prove fatal. At the request of the officers of the 13th Regiment, Col. Boies, for some time meditated the design of undertaking this work, and gathered some valuable material for the purpose. But time passed; the delicacy of the work, in which a chief actor is set to record the history, and the pressure of business, prevented the prosecution of this design. About eighteen months ago there came to the Chaplain of the Guard, who had been identified with it from the beginning, various and earnest requests, from enlisted members and veterans of the organization, and from citizens interested in it, that he would undertake the work of writing, at least the history of the military organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.