Includes insert map "The Civil War in Carroll County Maryland, the Gettsyburg Campaign".
Contents
North and South -- The first invasion, 1862 -- The cavalry battle, June 29, 1863 -- After the battle -- Troops at Westminster, 1863 -- Transportation, supply and communications -- Sending the news -- Troop movements in 1863 -- Plans for a battle along Pipe Creek -- North and South at Union Mills -- The last invasion, 1864 -- Carroll County towns in the Civil War.
Summary
"These are the accounts of citizens and soldiers who described Civil War events in Carroll County, Md., as they saw them during the war years a century ago. They are eye-witness accounts for the most part, by people who were there at the time and who were the very first to begin recording the history of the war. No other event in American history produced so much documentary material from so many individual sources as did the Civil War. The tremendous emotional impact of this gigantic conflict between Americans, who had lived in a state of comparatively peaceful and romantic isolation from anything so incomprehensible as an ideological war, inspired tens of thousands of both literate and illiterate soldiers and civilians to record the most minute details of their daily experiences, as though they thought posterity would never believe that mankind could produce such vast and terrible chaos"--Preface.
159 pages illus. (part col.) map (on lining papers) 6 col plates (inserted) ports. 29 cm.
Notes
"A note about sources": page 151
Contents
The volume is divided into five parts : Indians and early settlers to 1740 --- Personalities nd Patriots 1740 to 1800 -- City and Country Life 1800 to 1820 -- Trade and Transportation 1820 to 1840 -- The County In Midcentury 1840 to 1865
Summary
The County in Mid-Century, 1840-1865. Each of these parts is more art than narrative-an editorial feature which reverses the usual historical work where a few appropriate illustrations are added to enhance the narrative. Both author and artist deserve the highest praise for their selection and combination of the most significant Lancaster history with the most appropriate art.
