A constitutional view of the late war between the states : its causes, character, conduct and results ; presented in a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall
Percy Jewett Burrell, pageant director and co-author with Laura F. Kready and H. Clifton Thorbahn. Presented upon Williamson athletic field by the people of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, July 5th, 6th and 7th, 1926.
Printed at the Methodist Book Concern, for the author,
Date of Publication
1863.
Physical Description
546 p. port. 19 cm.
Summary
This is an autobiography. The author was born in Lancaster, PA, in 1811. His parents sailed from Ireland in 1801.
Notes
Maxwell Pierson Gaddis (1811-1888) was a prolific author and Methodist itinerant preacher. His best known book is his autobiography "Footprints of an Itinerant".
Label attached to t.-p.: This volume, subsequently expanded by the results of further research, was a dissertation submitted to the Graduate board of Clark university ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy ... [1926]
Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands