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Officers And Men Of Frederick County Virginia Militia
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Download or read book Virginia Military Records written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1983 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is essentially a compilation of articles that deal wholly or in part with muster and pay rolls, court order books, pension records, land claims, depositions, petitions, militia lists, orderly books, and service records. The majority of the articles focus on the records of the colonial and Revolutionary War periods, but there also are some that relate to the War of 1812. In the aggregate these comprise data of almost unequaled variety and magnitude. Produced over the years by an army of specialists, they were spread throughout the three periodicals named in the title. This varied and immense body of data is brought together in a handy and well-indexed volume, which will make its use by the researcher very easy.
Download or read book The Minute Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confederate Colonels by : Bruce S. Allardice
Download or read book Confederate Colonels written by Bruce S. Allardice and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Allardice provides detailed biographical information on 1,583 Confederate colonels, both staff and line officers and members of all armies. In his introduction, he explains how one became a colonel -- the mustering process, election of officers, reorganizing of regiments -- and discusses problems of the nominating process, seniority, and "rank inflation""--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity by :
Download or read book Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Breaking The Backcountry by : Matthew C. Ward
Download or read book Breaking The Backcountry written by Matthew C. Ward and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2003-11-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as the 250th anniversary of its outbreak approaches, the Seven Years' War (otherwise known as the French and Indian War) is still not wholly understood. Most accounts tell the story as a military struggle between British and French forces, with shifting alliances of Indians, culminating in the British conquest of Canada. Scholarly and popular works alike, including James Fennimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, focus on the action in the Hudson River Valley and the St. Lawrence Seaway. Matthew C. Ward tells the compelling story of the war from the point of view of the region where it actually began, and whose people felt the devastating effects of war most keenly-the backcountry communities of Virginia and Pennsylvania. Previous wars in North America had been fought largely on the New England and New York frontiers. But on May 28, 1754, when a young George Washington commanded the first shot fired in western Pennsylvania, fighting spread for the first time to Virginia and Pennsylvania. Ward's original research reveals that on the eve of the Seven Years' War the communities of these colonies were isolated, economically weak, and culturally diverse. He shows in riveting detail how, despite the British empire's triumph, the war brought social chaos, sickness, hunger, punishment, and violence, to the backcountry, much of it at the hands of Indian warriors.Ward's fresh analysis reveals that Indian raids were not random skirmishes, but part of an organized strategy that included psychological warfare designed to make settlers flee Indian territories. It was the awesome effectiveness of this "guerilla" warfare, Ward argues, that led to the most enduring legacies of the war: Indian-hating and an armed population of colonial settlers, distrustful of the British empire that couldn't protect them. Understanding the horrors of the Seven Years' War as experienced in the backwoods thus provides unique insights into the origins of the American republic.
Book Synopsis Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia: The letters of Patrick Henry by : Virginia. Governor
Download or read book Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia: The letters of Patrick Henry written by Virginia. Governor and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Virginiana in the Printed Book Collections of the Virginia State Library: Subjects by : Virginia State Library
Download or read book Virginiana in the Printed Book Collections of the Virginia State Library: Subjects written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Virginia's Colonial Soldiers by : Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck
Download or read book Virginia's Colonial Soldiers written by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1988 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an authoritative register of Virginia's colonial soldiers, drawing on county court minutes, bounty land applications, records of courts martial, county militia rosters, and public records in England. Detailed information on soldiers' names, ranks, pay, places of birth, and appearance is divided into sections on different sources and different conflicts, including King George's War, the French and Indian War, and Dunmore's War. Useful for genealogists and historians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis An Index of the Source Records of Maryland by : Eleanor Phillips Passano
Download or read book An Index of the Source Records of Maryland written by Eleanor Phillips Passano and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1967 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.
Download or read book The Minute Man written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Point Pleasant 1774 by : John F. Winkler
Download or read book Point Pleasant 1774 written by John F. Winkler and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed exploration of a significant victory for Virginia militia forces over the Shawnee and Mingo tribes in Kentucky. The only major conflict of Lord Dunmore's War, the battle of Point Pleasant was fought between Virginian militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes. Following increased tensions and a series of incidents between the American settlers and the natives, Dunmore, the last colonial governor of Virginia, and Colonel Andrew Lewis led two armies against the tribes. On October 10, 1774 Lewis and his men resisted a fierce attack, led by Shawnee chief Keigh-tugh-qua, or Cornstalk, at Point Pleasant, near the mouth of the Kanawha river. Despite significant losses on both sides, Lewis succeeded in forcing the Shawnee to retreat back to their settlements in the Scioto Valley. In the aftermath of the battle the Treaty of Camp Charlotte was signed in attempt to secure peace in the region and ultimately opened up Kentucky for American settlement. Illustrated with photographs, detailed maps and bird's-eye-views, this title brings to life one of the most significant pre-Revolutionary conflicts between American settlers and the native tribes.
Book Synopsis Making the Frontier Man by : Matthew C. Ward
Download or read book Making the Frontier Man written by Matthew C. Ward and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For western colonists in the early American backcountry, disputes often ended in bloodshed and death. Making the Frontier Man examines early life and the origins of lawless behavior in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio from 1750 to 1815. It provides a key to understanding why the trans-Appalachian West was prone to violent struggles, especially between white men. Traumatic experiences of the Revolution and the Forty Years War legitimized killing as a means of self-defense—of property, reputation, and rights—transferring power from the county courts to the ordinary citizen. Backcountry men waged war against American Indians in state-sponsored militias as they worked to establish farms and seize property in the West. And white neighbors declared war on each other, often taking extreme measures to resolve petty disputes that ended with infamous family feuds. Making the Frontier Man focuses on these experiences of western expansion and how they influenced American culture and society, specifically the nature of western manhood, which radically transformed in the North American environment. In search of independence and improvement, the new American man was also destitute, frustrated by the economic and political power of his elite counterparts, and undermined by failure. He was aggressive, misogynistic, racist, and violent, and looked to reclaim his dominance and masculinity by any means necessary.
Book Synopsis Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier by : Robert G. Parkinson
Download or read book Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier written by Robert G. Parkinson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A scarifying, blood-soaked portrait of savagery on the early frontier—much of it committed by European settlers . . . superb.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred) An acclaimed historian captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation. We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brought to bear on Native peoples? In this startingly original work, historian Robert Parkinson presents a new account of ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans. Drawing skillfully on Joseph Conrad’s famous novella, Heart of Darkness, he demonstrates that imperialism in North America was neither heroic nor a perfectly planned conquest. It was, rather, as bewildering, violent, and haphazard as the European colonization of Africa, which Conrad knew firsthand and fictionalized in his masterwork. At the center of Parkinson’s story are two families whose entwined histories ended in tragedy. The family of Shickellamy, one of the most renowned Indigenous leaders of the eighteenth century, were Iroquois diplomats laboring to create a world where settlers and Native people could coexist. The Cresaps were frontiersmen who became famous throughout the colonies for their bravado, scheming, and land greed. Together, the families helped determine the fate of the British and French empires, which were battling for control of the Ohio River Valley. From the Seven Years’ War to the protests over the Stamp Act to the start of the Revolutionary War, Parkinson recounts the major turning points of the era from a vantage that allows us to see them anew, and to perceive how bewildering they were to people at the time. For the Shickellamy family, it all came to an end on April 30, 1774, when most of the clan were brutally murdered by white settlers associated with the Cresaps at a place called Yellow Creek. That horrific event became news all over the continent, and it led to war in the interior, at the very moment the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Michael Cresap, at first blamed for the massacre at Yellow Creek, would be transformed by the Revolution into a hero alongside George Washington. In death, he helped cement the pioneer myth at the heart of the new republic. Parkinson argues that American history is, in fact, tied to the frontier, just not in the ways we are often told. Altering our understanding of the past, he also shows what this new understanding should mean for us today.
Book Synopsis A Bibliography of Military Name Lists from Pre-1675 to 1900 by : Lois Horowitz
Download or read book A Bibliography of Military Name Lists from Pre-1675 to 1900 written by Lois Horowitz and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gleans from more than 400 genealogy and history periodicals articles listing military men in America's wars from the Colonial era to the Spanish-American War. ...a valuable addition to any library with an interest in genealogy. --ARBA Both military historians and genealogists will find this volume an extremely useful aid to their research. --SOUTH CAROLINA HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
Book Synopsis West Virginia and Its People by : Thomas Condit Miller
Download or read book West Virginia and Its People written by Thomas Condit Miller and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Frederick County, Maryland by : Thomas John Chew Williams
Download or read book History of Frederick County, Maryland written by Thomas John Chew Williams and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Archives written by Peter Force and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
