The Black-plumed Riflemen
Author : Newton Mallory Curtis
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 1846
Category : United States
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Author : Newton Mallory Curtis
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 1846
Category : United States
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Publisher : Historica Research and Records, LLC
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
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Category : History
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A definitive guide to veterans from Blair County, Pennsylvania who served in: Revolutionary War; War of 1812; Mexican War; Civil War; Spanish American War; and, World War 1. Many records include addresses, dates of birth and death, burial places and other information. Historical data on wars and the local area is also included.
Author : Milo Milton Quaife
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Wisconsin
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Page : 916 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Engraving
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Author : Meg Groeling
Publisher : Savas Beatie
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611215382
A “well-written, superbly researched” biography of the man who answered the call of his mentor, Abraham Lincoln, and became the first Union officer to die (Civil War News). On May 24, 1861, Col. Elmer Ellsworth became the first Union officer killed in the Civil War. The entire North was aghast. This is the first modern biography of this nineteenth-century celebrity and mostly forgotten national hero. Ellsworth and his entertaining U.S. Zouave Cadets drill team had performed at West Point, in New York City, and for President James Buchanan before returning home to Chicago. He helped his friend and law mentor Abraham Lincoln in his quest for the presidency, and when Lincoln put out the call for troops after Fort Sumter was fired upon, Ellsworth responded. Within days he organized more than a thousand New York firefighters into a regiment of volunteers. When he was killed, the Lincolns rushed to the Navy Yard to view the body of the young man they had loved as a son. Mary Lincoln insisted he lie in state in the East Room of the White House. The elite of New York brought flowers to the Astor House and six members of the 11th New York accompanied their commander’s coffin. When a late May afternoon thunderstorm erupted during his funeral service at the Hudson View Cemetery, eyewitnesses referred to it as “tears from God himself.” But the death of the young hero was knocked out of the headlines eight weeks later by the battle of First Bull Run. The trickle of blood had now become a torrent that would not stop for four long years. Meg Groeling’s biography is grounded in years of archival research and includes diaries, personal letters, newspapers, and many other accounts. In the six decades since the last portrait of Ellsworth was written, new information has been found that provides a better understanding of the Ellsworth phenomenon and his deep connections to the Lincoln family. First Fallen examines every facet of Ellsworth’s complex, fascinating life and adds richly to the historiography of the Civil War. “Poignant . . . Groeling makes it clear why Lincoln was so powerfully drawn to the magnetic young man.” —Michael Burlingame, author of An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Includes maps and photos
Author : Edward Fabrique Grose
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Ballston (N.Y.)
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Author : Cadmus Book Shop
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Page : 892 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers
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Author : Chicago Historical Society
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Author : Chicago Historical Society
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Page : 214 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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CONTENTS.--I. Flower, G. History of the English settlement in Edwards County, Illinois. 1882.--II. Reid, H. Biographical sketch of Enoch Long. 1884.--III. Edwards, N. The Edwards papers. 1884.--IV. Mason, E. G., ed. Early Chicago and Illinois. 1890.--V. Boggess, A. C. The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830. 1908.--VI-IX. Polk, J. K. The diary of James K. Polk ... 1845 to 1849 ... ed. ... by M. M. Quaife. 1910.--X. Putnam, J. W. The Illinois and Michigan canal. 1918.--[XI] Ingraham, C. A. Elmer E. Ellsworth and the zouaves of '61. [1925]--XII. Knight, R. and Zeuch, L. H. The location of the Chicago portage route of the seventeenth century. 1928.
Author : John Thomas Scharf
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Page : 1366 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Saint Louis (Mo.)
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