Civil War Veterans' Obituaries, Articles, Letters & Photographs
Title | Civil War Veterans' Obituaries, Articles, Letters & Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Obituaries |
ISBN |
Civil War Veteran's Obituaries, Articles, Letters and Photographs
Title | Civil War Veteran's Obituaries, Articles, Letters and Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | June L. H. Weston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Blair County (Pa.) |
ISBN |
Civil War Veteran's [sic] Obituaries, Articles, Letters and Photographs
Title | Civil War Veteran's [sic] Obituaries, Articles, Letters and Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | June L. H. Weston |
Publisher | |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Obituaries |
ISBN |
Civil War Veterans' Obituaries, Articles, Letters and Photographs, 1906-1910
Title | Civil War Veterans' Obituaries, Articles, Letters and Photographs, 1906-1910 PDF eBook |
Author | Blair County Genealogical Society |
Publisher | |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Obituaries |
ISBN |
Faces of the Civil War
Title | Faces of the Civil War PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald S Coddington |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1421410397 |
Archival images and biographical sketches of Union soldiers tell the stories of their lives during and after the Civil War. Before leaving to fight in the Civil War, many Union and Confederate soldiers posed for a carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the carte de visite was a small photographic print roughly the size of a modern trading card. The format arrived in America on the eve of the Civil War, fueling intense demand for the keepsakes. Many cards of Civil War soldiers survive today, but the experiences?and often the names?of the individuals portrayed have been lost to time. A passionate collector of Civil War–era photography, Ron Coddington researched the history behind these anonymous faces in military records, pension files, and other public and personal documents. In Faces of the Civil War, Coddington presents 77 cartes de visite of Union soldiers from his collection and tells the stories of their lives during and after the war. These soldiers came from all walks of life. All were volunteers. Their personal stories reveal a tremendous diversity in their experience of war: many served with distinction, some were captured, some never saw combat while others saw little else. The lives of survivors were even more disparate. While some made successful transitions back to civilian life, others suffered permanent physical and mental disabilities, which too often wrecked their families and careers. In compelling words and haunting pictures, Faces of the Civil War offers a unique perspective on the most dramatic and wrenching period in American history.
Prices of Clothing
Title | Prices of Clothing PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Curran |
Publisher | |
Pages | 24 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Clothing and dress |
ISBN |
This Republic of Suffering
Title | This Republic of Suffering PDF eBook |
Author | Drew Gilpin Faust |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2009-01-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0375703837 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.