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Author : Edward Pollock
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Sketch Book of Lynchburg, Va written by Edward Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Sketchbook of Lynchburg, VA written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Pollock
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Sketch Book of Lynchburg, Va written by Edward Pollock and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifton Potter
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439630607
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Lynchburg written by Clifton Potter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-16 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the primary hunting ground of the Monocan Indians and later a harmonious common area shared with the Quakers, Lynchburg was a crossroads for various cultures even before its founding following the French and Indian War. With roots in the prosperous tobacco fields, the City of Seven Hills became one of the nation's wealthiest communities by the Civil War. During the robust and arduous times to come, Lynchburg continued to thrive by developing diverse industries and eventually becoming a respected educational center.
Author : Edward Pollock
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332782416
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Sketch Book of Lynchburg, Va written by Edward Pollock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Sketch Book of Lynchburg, Va: Its People and Its Trade The numerous handsome factories and stores, mills and warehouses, churches and public buildings, give to the City a business-like and substantial aspect, while the many graceful residences which crown the hills and adorn the numberless eligible sites in the City and its suburbs, bespeak alike the wealth and refined taste of the population generally. 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.
Author : Steven Elliot Tripp
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081478237X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Yankee Town, Southern City written by Steven Elliot Tripp and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most hotly debated issues in the historical study of race relations is the question of how the Civil War and Reconstruction affected social relations in the South. Did the War leave class and race hierarchies intact? Or did it mark the profound disruption of a long-standing social order? Yankee Town, Southern City examines how the members of the southern community of Lynchburg, Virginia experienced four distinct but overlapping events--Secession, Civil War, Black Emancipation, and Reconstruction. By looking at life in the grog shop, at the military encampment, on the street corner, and on the shop floor, Steven Elliott Tripp illustrates the way in which ordinary people influenced the contours of race and class relations in their town.
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Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Southern Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary journal of the South.
Author : Alexander Gardner
Publisher : Ravenio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the Civil War written by Alexander Gardner and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In presenting the Photographic Sketch Book of the War to the attention of the public, it is designed that it shall speak for itself. The omission, therefore, of any remarks by way of preface might well be justified; and yet, perhaps, a few introductory words may not be amiss. As mementoes of the fearful struggle through which the country has just passed, it is confidently hoped that the following pages will possess an enduring interest. Localities that would scarcely have been known, and probably never remembered, save in their immediate vicinity, have become celebrated, and will ever be held sacred as memorable fields, where thousands of brave men yielded up their lives a willing sacrifice for the cause they had espoused. Verbal representations of such places, or scenes, may or may not have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith. During the four years of the war, almost every point of importance has been photographed, and the collection from which these views have been selected amounts to nearly three thousand.
Author : Jeffrey W. McClurken
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813928192
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Take Care of the Living written by Jeffrey W. McClurken and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Care of the Living assesses the short- and long-term impact of the war on Confederate veteran families of all classes in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia. Using letters, diaries, church minutes, and military and state records, as well as close analysis of the entire 1860 and 1870 Pittsylvania County manuscript population census, McClurken explores the consequences of the war for over three thousand Confederate soldiers and their families. The author reveals an array of strategies employed by those families to come to terms with their postwar reality, including reorganizing and reconstructing the household, turning to local churches for emotional and economic support, pleading with local elites for financial assistance or positions, sending psychologically damaged family members to a state-run asylum, and looking to the state for direct assistance in the form of replacement limbs for amputees, pensions, and even state-supported homes for old soldiers and widows. Although these strategies or institutions for reconstructing the family had their roots in existing practices, the extreme need brought on by the scope and impact of the Civil War required an expansion beyond anything previously seen. McClurken argues that this change serves as a starting point for the study of the evolution of southern welfare.
Author : Patrick K. O'Donnell
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802162878
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Unvanquished written by Patrick K. O'Donnell and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America’s modern special operations forces The Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to define it: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, among others. However, as bestselling author Patrick K. O’Donnell reveals in The Unvanquished, a vital shadow war raged amid and away from the major battlefields that was in many ways equally consequential to the conflict’s outcome. At the heart of this groundbreaking narrative is the epic story of Lincoln’s special forces, the Jessie Scouts, told in its entirety for the first time. In a contest fought between irregular units, the Scouts hunted John Singleton Mosby’s Confederate Rangers from the middle of 1863 up to war’s end at Appomattox. With both sides employing pioneering tradecraft, they engaged in dozens of raids and spy missions, often perilously wearing the other’s uniform, risking penalty of death if captured. Clashing violently on horseback, the unconventional units attacked critical supply lines, often capturing or killing high-value targets. North and South deployed special operations that could have changed the war’s direction in 1864, and crucially during the Appomattox Campaign, Jessie Scouts led the Union Army to a final victory. They later engaged in a history-altering proxy war against France in Mexico, earning seven Medals of Honor; many Scouts mysteriously disappeared during that conflict, taking their stories to their graves. An expert on special operations, O’Donnell transports readers into the action, immersing them in vivid battle scenes from previously unpublished firsthand accounts. He introduces indelible characters such as Scout Archibald Rowand; Scout leader Richard Blazer; Mosby, the master of guerrilla warfare; and enslaved spy Thomas Laws. O’Donnell also brings to light the Confederate Secret Service’s covert efforts to deliver the 1864 election to Peace Democrats through ballot fraud, election interference, and attempts to destabilize a population fatigued by a seemingly forever war. Most audaciously, the Secret Service and Mosby’s Rangers planned to kidnap Abraham Lincoln in order to maintain the South’s independence. A little-known chronicle of the shadow war between North and South, rich in action and offering original perspective on history, The Unvanquished is a dynamic and essential addition to the literature of the Civil War.
Author : Joseph V. Collins
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462882935
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)
Download or read book Battle of West Frederick, July 7, 1864 written by Joseph V. Collins and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Civil War book about a little known engagement that took place two days before the important Battle of Monocacy which is referred to as the battle that saved Washington, D.C. from capture by the Confederates. The book follows the ragtag Confederate Army of the Valley commanded by the cantankerous General Jubal Early on its ill fated 1864 invasion of Maryland. It introduces the reader to the various players and the general background that would become part of this critical thirty day period in the Civil War. Special emphasis is placed on the Third Potomac Home Brigade and the role this unit of Marylanders would play in the events. The book follows Jubal Earlys army through the Shenandoah Valley, its eventual crossing of the Potomac River into Maryland and the reaction to this impending problem by two particular individuals, John Garrett of the Baltimore & Railroad and Union General Lew Wallace. It details the various engagements fought between the invading Confederates and the hastily assembled Union defenders leading up the fighting that occurred first on the morning of July 7th at Middletown, Maryland then culminating in spirited fighting during the afternoon and evening hours, in the farm fields just west of Frederick. The book continues with the military activities on July 8th and concentrates on the part that the Third Potomac Home Brigade plays in the Battle of Monocacy that transpires on July 9th. While concentrating on the military activities during this time period the book takes time to discuss the ransoms of three Maryland communities by the invading Confederates namely Frederick, Hagerstown and Middletown. To better inform the reader information is provided through maps, pictures and lists on units involved, their commanders, troop movement, period currency and transportation. When finished its hoped the reader will have a better understanding of the importance of the July 7th fighting, those that participated and the overall impact it had on the preparations for and the outcome of the Battle of Monocacy.
Author : Virginia J. Snead
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Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fluvanna County Sketchbook, 1777-1963 written by Virginia J. Snead and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118802950
Total Pages : 1223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the U.S. Civil War written by Aaron Sheehan-Dean and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-02-05 with total page 1223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating to all aspects of the U.S. Civil War Features contributions from dozens of experts in Civil War scholarship Covers major campaigns and battles, and military and political figures, as well as non-military aspects of the conflict such as gender, emancipation, literature, ethnicity, slavery, and memory
Author : Donald C. Pfanz
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807888524
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Richard S. Ewell written by Donald C. Pfanz and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Richard Stoddert Ewell holds a unique place in the history of the Army of Northern Virginia. For four months Ewell was Stonewall Jackson's most trusted subordinate; when Jackson died, Ewell took command of the Second Corps, leading it at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House. In this biography, Donald Pfanz presents the most detailed portrait yet of the man sometimes referred to as Stonewall Jackson's right arm. Drawing on a rich array of previously untapped original source materials, Pfanz concludes that Ewell was a highly competent general, whose successes on the battlefield far outweighed his failures. But Pfanz's book is more than a military biography. It also examines Ewell's life before and after the Civil War, including his years at West Point, his service in the Mexican War, his experiences as a dragoon officer in Arizona and New Mexico, and his postwar career as a planter in Mississippi and Tennessee. In all, Pfanz offers an exceptionally detailed portrait of one of the South's most important leaders.
Author : Paula F. Green
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439670897
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Great Virginia Flood of 1870 written by Paula F. Green and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1870, a massive flood engulfed parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. What began near Charlottesville as welcome rain at the end of a drought-plagued summer quickly turned into a downpour as it moved west and then north through the Shenandoah Valley. The James, Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers rose, and flooding washed out fields, farms and entire towns. The impact was immense in terms of destruction, casualties and depth of water. The only warning that Richmond, downriver from the worst of the storm, had of the wall of water bearing down on it was a telegram. In this account, public historian Paula Green details not only the flood but also the process of recovery in an era before modern relief programs.
Author : John Loughery
Publisher : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Alias S. S. Van Dine written by John Loughery and published by Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "During the first four tumultuous decades of this century, Willard Huntington Wright lived two lives: before World War I, he was a pioneering art critic and editor of the avant-garde magazine The Smart Set, who numbered among his friends Alfred Stieglitz, H. L. Mencken, and Theodore Dreiser. In the 1920s, he transformed himself into S. S. Van Dine, one of America's best-selling authors. Mysteries featuring his detective Philo Vance--The Benson Murder Case, The "Canary" Murder Case, The Bishop Murder Case, among others--sold more than a million copies by the end of the decade, and dominated book sales during the first rough months of the Great Depression. Even by the standards of the Jazz Age, Wright lived an outsized life--in his palatial Manhattan penthouse he maintained an aquarium of two thousand exotic fish. But by the late 1930s, he was a broken, desperate man consumed by the fear of failure that had shadowed him all his life. The fashions of detective fiction had changed--Wright deplored the "all booze and erections style" of his competitor Dashiell Hammett--and he was reduced to writing novelizations of his failed screenplays in order to get by." "John Loughery depicts in bewitching detail the rise and fall of a writer who helped create the modern detective novel, and tells with heartbreaking eloquence the story of a man whose fame ultimately destroyed him. Re-creating the artistic spirit of a lost world, Alias S. S. Van Dine is a brilliant work of literary archaeology that resurrects a man, his books, and the era whose glamour and flaws he came to represent so completely."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Howard S. Merritt
Publisher : Hudson River Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book To Walk with Nature written by Howard S. Merritt and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 1981 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
