Otsego County, New York; Geographical and Historical, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time


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Excerpt from Otsego County, New York; Geographical and Historical, From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: With County and Township Maps From Original Drawings There is a growing demand for the means of local geo graphical and historical study in schools, and this little manual is intended to meet this demand for the schools of Otsego County. It was originally prepared in manuscript for classes in the Oneonta State Normal school and now, with the approval and encouragement of the school commissioners and teachers of the county, is offered in its present form. 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.







Otsego County, New York; Geographical and Historical, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, with County and Township Maps from Original Dr


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Otsego County, New York


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Otsego County, New York Geographical and Historical


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Originally published as Pipe Creek Publications Early Settler Series New York, No. 5. General history of Otsego County, New York with a list of villages, their post offices and population numbers. Includes each of the 24 townships with history of each township and boundaries, lists of the earliest settlers and from whence they came, with data on the villages in each township regarding schools and churches.










Archives of the General Convention


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From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton's Regulars


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Thirty years after the Civil War, the 121st New York Volunteers (Upton's Regulars) finally published a history of their regiment. Its stated author was a man who had not served directly with the 121st but had based the book on a memoir written by a survivor who had enlisted at age 15. That boy, Dewitt Clinton Beckwith, published his memoir thirty years after the war in an obscure upstate New York newspaper, The Hekrimer Democrat. For years, the "origin story" lay hidden in plain sight, until editor Salvatore Cilella discovered it while researching for a regimental history. The original 53 weekly installments, edited and annotated here, richly detail the horrors and folly of war. They reveal the slow maturation of a boy thrust into almost four years of war. Beckwith was present at nearly all the historic Eastern Theater engagements from Antietam to Appomattox, including an abortive stint with the 91st New York in Florida in 1861. He describes his various Tom Sawyer-like adventures with the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac, dealing with death, disease, loss and ultimate elation at Lee's surrender, tempered only by Abraham Lincoln's death.