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Author | : Gilbert Claflin |
Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0299294838 |
Download A Quiet Corner of the War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 2002, Judy Cook discovered a packet of letters written by her great-great-grandparents, Gilbert and Esther Claflin, during the American Civil War. An unexpected bounty, these letters from 1862–63 offer visceral witness to the war, recounting the trials of a family separated. Gilbert, an articulate and cheerful forty-year-old farmer, was drafted into the Union Army and served in the Thirty-Fourth Wisconsin Infantry garrisoned in western Kentucky along the Mississippi. Esther had married Gilbert when she was fifteen; now a woman with two teenage sons, she ran the family farm near Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in Gilbert’s absence. In his letters, Gilbert writes about food, hygiene, rampant desertions by drafted men, rebel guerrilla raids, and pastimes in the daily life of a soldier. His comments on interactions with Confederate prisoners and ex-slaves before and after the Emancipation Proclamation reveal his personal views on monumental events. Esther shares in her letters the challenges and joys of maintaining the farm, accounts of their boys Elton and Price, concerns about finances and health, and news of their local community and extended family. Esther’s experiences provide insight into family, farm, and village life in the wartime North, an often overlooked aspect of Civil War history. Judy Cook has made the letters accessible to a wider audience by providing historical context with notes and appendixes. The volume includes a foreword by Civil War historian Keith S. Bohannon.
Author | : John Fetler |
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Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1966 |
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Download The Pikes Peak People Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Leroy R. Hafen |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803273412 |
Download To the Pike's Peak Gold Fields, 1859 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Danger, hardship, and isolation could not turn back the tide of men and women who thirsted for yellow metal. The Pike?s Peak gold rush of 1859 attracted as many gold seekers as the more famous California gold rush of the previous decade. In this volume, noted western historian LeRoy R. Hafen has collected invaluable Pike?s Peak gold rush diaries chronicling the struggles, dreams, and heartaches of those who traveled the overland routes to untold riches. The diarists who came along the Arkansas and Platte Rivers and along trails from Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois created records of the landscapes and peoples they encountered as they journeyed. In the words of these single-minded adventurers, larger-than-life characters mingle with the awesome, terrible beauty of the Great Plains and the sparse comforts of the old Middle West. The Pike?s Peak gold rushers provide firsthand accounts of the dangers and rewards of overland travel, as they sought ephemeral fortunes in the Rocky Mountain West.
Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
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Total Pages | : 1770 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : American drama |
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Download Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Mountaineering |
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Download Trail and Timberline Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ohio. General Assembly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : Ohio |
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Download Legislative Manual of the State of Ohio Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Ohio. General Assembly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Ohio |
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Download Manual of Legislative Practice in the ... General Assembly ... Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 1032 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Electric lighting |
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Author | : Kay Beth Faris Avery |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439658722 |
Download Along the Huerfano River Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Long before English speakers set eyes upon it, the volcanic plug on the south bank of the Huerfano River was tagged with a moniker that means "the orphan." Spanish conquistadors saw it as a rock pile that God dumped in the middle of nowhere, an odd little cone far removed from the regular foothills edging the Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range. In the 18th century, this outcropping and the river that bears the same name were famous landmarks for Native American tribes, Hispanic explorers, and French adventurers. Then in the 19th century, along came US mountain men, gold-seekers, cowboys, sheep ranchers, railroad workers, town developers, and coal miners from 31 different countries, speaking 27 different languages. Counterculture revolutionaries discovered the area in the 1960s and established five separate communes west of Walsenburg. Each wave of immigrants brought new perspectives and lifestyles.
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Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Union catalogs |
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Download The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle