"This booklet was compiled by the Women's Alliance of the Unitarian Fellowship of Newark, Delaware. Mrs. Warren Davies, editor ; Mrs. Clarence W. Brown, assistant ; Mrs. Raymond Cashel, artist ; Mrs. E.H. Heisa, typist ; and members of the Alliance who plotted and checked the tours"--Colophon.
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.
" The underground railroad—with its mysterious signals, secret depots, abolitionist heroes, and slave-hunting villains—has become part of American mythology. But legend has distorted much of this history. Larry Gara shows how pre-Civil War partisan propganda, postwar reminiscences by fame-hungry abolitionists, and oral tradition helped foster the popular belief that a powerful secret organization spirited floods of slaves away from the South. In contrast to much popular belief, however, the slaves themselves had active roles in their own escape. They carried out their runs, receiving aid only after they had reached territory where they still faced return. The Liberty Line puts slaves in their rightful position: the center of their struggle for freedom. "
Bibliographical footnotes.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
Contents
CONTENTS 1. The Legendary Railroad 3. The Road to the North 2. Slavery and Freedom 4. A Deep-Laid Scheme 5. Friends of the Fugitive 6. The Fugitive Issue 7. The Roots of a Legend 8. Reminiscence and Romance 164
"The Good side of my family" : a history of the Good-Goode-Guth family of Lancaster Co., Pa., and Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, with a record of some of the descendants of the family who moved elsewhere
The second part of Modern reports : being a collection of several special cases most of them adjudged in the Court of Common Pleas, in the 26, 27 ... 30th years of the reign of King Charles II. ... To which are added, several select cases in the Courts of Chancery, Kings-Bench, and Exchequer in the said years
The Politics of civil rights in Lancaster, Pennsylvania : a senior thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, in partial fulfillmentt of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree
Style's practical register : begun in the reign of King Charles I, consisting of rules, orders, and the principal observations concerning the practice of the common law in the courts at Westminster, particularly the Kings Bench, as well in matters criminal as civil : carefully continued down to this time, alphabetically digested under several titles, with a table for the ready finding out of those titles
The political career of G. Graybill Diehm : a thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Social Studies, Millersville State College, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Education
The anthracite iron industry of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : 1840-1900. A thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of Social Studies, Millersville State College, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Education
Chikiswalungo Furnace -- Henry Clay Furnace -- Sarah Ann Furnace -- Conestoga Furnace -- Marietta Furnace -- Donegal Furnace -- Cordelia Furnace -- Safe Harbor Furnace -- St. Charles Furnace -- Eagle Furnace -- Vesta Furnace -- Railroads -- Chickies Furnace -- Penn Iron Works Rolling Mill -- Lancaster Manufacturing Co. -- Penn Iron Co. -- Safe Harbor Rolling Mill -- Reeves, Abbott And Co. -- Columbia Rolling Mill -- Smith, Bruner, Sourbeer and Co. -- Lancaster Rolling Mill -- Susquehanna Rolling Mill -- Susquehanna Iron Co. -- Chickies Rolling Mill -- Columbia Iron Co. Rolling Mill -- Shawnee Furnace.
From the Alps to the Appalachians; a brief history including some of the Neff families of Switzerland, Germany, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and statistics on the descendants of Michael H. Neff, 1833-1922, of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
