A story of the Hartman family's immigration to America from Germany, the attack by Indians in their American home, and the abduction of two daughters by native Indians.
Chapters: Frontier Background // The French Invasion and British Resistance // Virginia Forts // French Forts // First Pennsylvania Forts // Pennsylvania Troops // Provincial Forts in Northampton County // Provincial Forts in Berks and Lancaster Counties // Provincial Forts in Cumberland County // Fort Augusta and It's Dependencies // The British Take Over // Appendix: The Private Forts
Summary
"This book is not only about the Pa. frontier forts, but also about all the forts occupying Pa.'s soil; the French invasion and their forts and claims to Pa.; Virginia and the Ohio Company and the 3 forts they erected on Pa.'s soil; the British takeover of fort building and frontier protection of Pa.; as well as background on the Indians and their place in the regional history of the 1750s." [from the publisher]
Life in southern prisons; from the diary of Corporal Charles Smedley, of Company G, 90th regiment Penn'a volunteers, commencing a few days before the "battle of the Wilderness", in which he was taken prisoner, in the evening of the fifth month fifth, 1864: also, a short description of the march to and battle of Gettysburg, together with a biographical sketch of the author
History of the Pennsylvania reserve corps: a complete record of the organization; and of the different companies, regiments and brigades; containing descriptions of expeditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles; together with biographical sketches of officers and personal records of each man during his term of service
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders : intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes and manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements
Names of persons who took the oath of allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, between the years 1777 and 1789, with a history of the "Test laws" of Pennsylvania
