Author : Jackie Denise
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,99 MB
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1524548081
My name is Mike. I consider myself an average guy. Well, at the time of the beginning of this book, I am young. I wanted to tell the story of my young childhood to getting older. I will learn the meaning of the phrase last name, last four. All veterans know this phrase, but many will use it for the rest of their life like me. God bless them all, young and old.
Author : Eric J. Wittenberg
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,18 MB
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1611215072
A “thoroughly researched [and] historically enlightening” account of how the Commonwealth of Virginia split in two in the midst of war (Civil War News). “West Virginia was the child of the storm.” —Mountaineer historian and Civil War veteran Maj. Theodore F. Lang As the Civil War raged, the northwestern third of the Commonwealth of Virginia finally broke away in 1863 to form the Union’s 35th state. Seceding from Secession chronicles those events in an unprecedented study of the social, legal, military, and political factors that converged to bring about the birth of West Virginia. President Abraham Lincoln, an astute lawyer in his own right, played a critical role in birthing the new state. The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president, and he polled every member of his cabinet before signing the bill. Seceding from Secession includes a detailed discussion of the 1871 U.S. Supreme Court decision Virginia v. West Virginia, in which former Lincoln cabinet member Salmon Chase presided as chief justice over the court that decided the constitutionality of the momentous event. Grounded in a wide variety of sources and including a foreword by Frank J. Williams, former Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court and Chairman Emeritus of the Lincoln Forum, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in American history.
Author : Ross B. Johnston
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 0806307625
The Revolutionary War soldiers identified in this work lived at one time or another in what is now the State of West Virginia, their military duties having been discharged in the service of other states, notably Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland. The data given for each soldier typically includes the name, age, date of birth, service record, date pension applied for and granted, place of residence, names of wife and children, and, in support of the pension claim, comrades-in-arms.
Author : Mark A. Snell
Publisher : Civil War
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596298880
The only state born as a result of the Civil War, West Virginia was the most divided state in the nation. About forty thousand of its residents served in the combatant forces about twenty thousand on each side. The Mountain State also saw its fair share of battles, skirmishes, raids and guerrilla warfare, with places like Harpers Ferry, Philippi and Rich Mountain becoming household names in 1861. When the Commonwealth of Virginia seceded from the Union on April 17, 1861, leaders primarily from the northwestern region of the state began the political process that eventually led to the creation of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. Renowned Civil War historian Mark A. Snell has written the first thorough history of these West Virginians and their civil war in more than fifty years.
Author : George A. Hall
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 20,89 MB
Release : 2010-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781600475214
In civilian mode guerillas wanted no accountability to military authority. But in the commission of crimes they would plead exemption due to a military role and the protections of a combatant. The Moccasin Rangers were the most notorious of such bands of men early in the war. The policies crafted then are the foundation for conducting war against insurgents today in such places as Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 24,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Veterans
ISBN :
Author : John W. Shaffer
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Barbour County (W. Va.)
ISBN : 0806352647
Following the passage of the Confederate Ordinance of Secession in April 1861, pro-Union Virginians met in Wheeling and began the process that would lead to the formation of West Virginia as a separate state. Despite the new state's allegiance to the North, the population of West Virginia remained divided in its loyalties, as author John W. Shaffer has described in his other book, "Barbour County, A Clash of Loyalties: A Border County in the Civil War." In his latest effort, "Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers," Mr. Shaffer enumerates over 1,000 individuals who comprised the fractious community of Barbour County. Using official military records, the 1860 U.S. federal census, and a variety of other primary and secondary sources, the author lists 718 Union and 528 Confederate soldiers and sympathizers from Barbour County. These individuals are arranged by army and thereunder alphabetically. For each we learn the military unit (except for sympathizers), dates of service, duties, date of birth, names of parents, postwar occupation and other activities, and date of death. Mr. Shaffer's Introduction describes the background of the Civil War in Barbour County, while the Appendices specify the Union and Confederate units and military engagements in which Barbour citizens fought.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309152852
Nearly 1.9 million U.S. troops have been deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq since October 2001. Many service members and veterans face serious challenges in readjusting to normal life after returning home. This initial book presents findings on the most critical challenges, and lays out the blueprint for the second phase of the study to determine how best to meet the needs of returning troops and their families.
Author : Brian Stuart Kesterson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738568003
The formation of what would eventually become the West Virginia National Guard has its roots intertwined in the Old Virginia Militia system of the early and mid-1700s. This militia system spanned the Indian hostilities of the French and Indian War, American Revolutionary War, 1780s and 1790s Indian Wars, and Civil War. Images of America: West Virginia National Guard covers the time span between 1898 and 1919. This period of guard history was chaotic, to say the least, and was typified by turbulent social, economic, and political unrest.
Author : Elizabeth Cometti
Publisher :
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 1966
Category : West Virginia
ISBN :
