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The diaries of Peter C. Hiller, Conestoga, Pennsylvania, 1875-1898 : a reflection of the life and times in Conestoga, Pennsylvania during the late 1800s

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo112

Author: Hiller, Peter C.,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Call Number: 974.815 CONE H652

Responsibility: [edited by] Pauline Benedict Eshelman.

Author: Hiller, Peter C.,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, PA

Publisher: P.B. Eshelman,

Date of Publication: 1994.

Physical Description: xx, 420 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Notes: Includes indexes.; Library's copy inscribed by Pauline Benedict Eshelman.

Summary: Peter Clinger Hiller was born in Conestoga, PA, and lived there with his wife and four daughters. He was a teacher and farmer. He also sold and repaired organs, bought and sold tobacco, was a clerk in the Internal Revenue office selling cigar stamps along with other duties, wrote deeds for the county Recorder's office, and served as Justice of the Peace. He belonged to several civic organization and had many hobbies.

Subjects: Hiller, Peter C., - 1847-1898 - Diaries.; Hiller family.; Conestoga (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History - Sources.; Conestoga (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - History - 19th century - Personal narratives.; Diaries.

Additional Author: Eshelman, Pauline Benedict.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.815 CONE H652

A Pennsylvanian in blue : the Civil War diary of Thomas Beck Walton

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/32544711

Author: Walton, Thomas Beck,

Date of Publication: 1995

Responsibility: edited by Robert A. Taylor

ISBN: 0942597826 (softcover : alk. paper)

Author: Walton, Thomas Beck,

Place of Publication: Shippensburg, PA

Publisher: Burd Street Press,

Date of Publication: 1995

Physical Description: xiv, 65 p. : ill ; 23 cm

Series: Civil War heritage series ;

Notes: Includes bibliographical references

Subjects: Walton, Thomas Beck, - 1840-1913 - Diaries; United States. - Army. - Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 195th (1864-1865); Soldiers - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives; Lancaster County (Pa.) - Biography

Additional Author: Taylor, Robert A.,

Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War

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Author: Gilmore, James R.

Date of Publication: 2007.

Call Number: 973.7092 G488

Responsibility: James R. Gilmore.

ISBN: 9780811702614; 0811702618

Author: Gilmore, James R.

Place of Publication: Mechanicsburg, PA

Publisher: Stackpole Books,

Date of Publication: 2007.

Physical Description: 338 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: A Stackpole classic reprint

Notes: Originally published: Boston : L.C. Page and Co., 1898.; Includes index.

Contents: Chapters: My first interview with President Lincoln - A cabinet session - The great uprising - Acquaintance with Horace Greeley - The emancipation proclamatio - nThe book " Among the Pines " - The emancipation proclamation - The New York Tribune - Dissatisfaction with President Lincoln - Travel in wartime - With " Old Rosey" - Rosecrans declines presidential nomination - Conferences with Lincoln - The Tribune in the draft riots - Recession of North Carolina - Preliminaries to the peace mission - Our visit to Richmond - The great conspiracy.

Summary: "Reporter James R. Gilmore first interviewed President Abraham Lincoln the day after the Civil War erupted in April 1861 and, over the course of the war, came to know the president intimately. Gathered here are Gilmore's firsthand accounts of his meetings with Lincoln, where the president openly discussed military and political strategy, including the response to the Southern attack on Fort Sumter and the Emancipation Proclamation. Gilmore also writes about his encounters with influential newspaperman Horace Greeley, his two weeks at the front with Union general William Rosecrans, and behind-enemy-lines interview with Confederate president Jefferson Davis in 1864." [from publisher]

Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, - 1809-1865.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1864 - Personal narratives.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7092 G488

Caldwell family newsletter for the descendants of Andrew and Martha Caldwell of Lancaster County, PA : descendants to North Carolina and Tennessee

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Author: Faler, June,

Date of Publication: [1990]

Call Number: 929 C146n

Responsibility: edited by June Faler (1981-1986), Betty Sedgley (1981-present), Donelle Meyer (1982-present).

Author: Faler, June,

Place of Publication: [Fairhope, AL]

Publisher: Caldwell Family Committee of the Caldwell Family Association,

Date of Publication: [1990]

Physical Description: 169 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

Notes: Cover title: Caldwell family newsletter, 1981-1990.; "December 1990."; Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: Caldwell family.; Caldwell, Andrew, - d. 1757 - Family.; Pennsylvania - Lancaster County - Genealogy.; North Carolina - Genealogy.; Tennessee - Genealogy.

Additional Author: Sedgley, Betty.; Meyer, Donelle.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 C146n

Peter Baker of Springhill : the descendants of Peter and Mary Baker of Springhill Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

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Author: Baker, Gordon C.,

Date of Publication: 1998.

Call Number: 929 B168g

Responsibility: Gordon C. Baker.

Author: Baker, Gordon C.,

Place of Publication: [Rockville, Md.] : G.C. Baker

Date of Publication: 1998.

Physical Description: 350 p. : ill., maps, ports., geneal. tables ; 28 cm.

Notes: Includes the related families of Blosser, Bowers, Brooks, Deffenbaugh, Dick, Everly, Jackson, Larch, Nichols, Saddler and Shechter familes.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-324) and index.

Subjects: Brooks family.; Baker family.; Baker, Peter, - d. 1812 - Family.; Pennsylvania - Genealogy.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 929 B168g

Diary of Francis X. Ziegler , 1854-1867

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo11858

Author: Ziegler, Francis X. ,

Date of Publication: [2002]

Call Number: 923.7 Z66

Responsibility: transcribed by John Bennawit, Jr.

Author: Ziegler, Francis X. ,

Place of Publication: Computer printout

Date of Publication: [2002]

Physical Description: unp. 29 cm.

Notes: Original diary in Lancaster County Historical Society Archives.

Summary: Francis Ziegler was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania in 1817 and he died in 1902. He was a school teacher and a telegraph operator.He recorded in this diary sporadically between 1854 and 1857. His entries describe personal experiences, but many entries pertain to events of the day, both local and national. His discontent with politics and the times, in general, is clear. The diary begins at the time of a cholera epidemic in Columbia during which many people died. He presents a picture of a very frightening time. Another highlight of the diary was his description of the invasion of Pennsylvania by Confederate troops during the Civil War. He witnessed the burning of the bridge over the Susquehanna River between Columbia and Wrightsville. This action closed off a potential route for the Confederates to reach Philadelphia and Harrisburg after Gettysburg.

Subjects: Ziegler, Francis X - Diaries.; Cholera - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Lancaster County (Pa.) - History.; Columbia (Pa.) - History - Personal narratives.; Susquehanna River Valley - History, Military - 19th century.; Diaries.

Additional Author: Bennawit, John,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.7 Z66

Dear Catharine, dear Taylor : the Civil War letters of a Union soldier and his wife

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14326

Author: Peirce, Taylor,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Call Number: 973.781 P378

Responsibility: edited by Richard L. Kiper ; letters transcribed by Donna B. Vaughn.

ISBN: 070061205X (alk. paper)

Author: Peirce, Taylor,

Place of Publication: Lawrence

Publisher: University Press of Kansas,

Date of Publication: 2002.

Physical Description: xii, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

Series: Modern war studies

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-438) and index.

Contents: August 20, 1862 to March 22, 1863, Missouri -- March 28 to September 24, 1863, the Vicksburg Campaign -- October 4, 1863 to July 24, 1864, Texas and Louisiana -- July 26, 1864 to December 25, 1864, Virginia -- January 9, 1865 to August 2, 1865, South Carolina, North Carolina, Iowa.

Summary: "While there are many collections of letters from Civil War soldiers to their wives, very few include such a rich trove of letters from the homefront. Together they paint an engrossing portrait of a soldier and husband who was trying to do his patriotic and familial duty, and of a wife trying to cope with loneliness and responsibility while longing for her husband's safe return. Beautifully edited and annotated...they bring to life a nation under siege and provide a rare look at the war's impact on both the common soldier and his family." [from the book jacket]

Subjects: Peirce, Taylor, - 1822-1901; Peirce, Catherine L., - d. 1867; United States. - Army. - Iowa Infantry Regiment, 22nd (1862-1865); Soldiers - United States - Correspondence.; Army spouses - Iowa - Des Moines - Correspondence.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.; Iowa - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; Iowa - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.; Des Moines (Iowa) - Biography.

Additional Author: Peirce, Catherine L.,; Kiper, Richard L.,; Vaughn, Donna B.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.781 P378

The Slaves' War : the Civil War in the words of former slaves

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Author: Ward, Andrew,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Call Number: 973.711 W256

Responsibility: Andrew Ward.

ISBN: 9780618634002; 0618634002; 9780547237923; 0547237928

Author: Ward, Andrew,

Place of Publication: Boston

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.,

Date of Publication: 2008.

Physical Description: xiv, 386 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-372) and index.

Summary: The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves' theories about the causes of the Civil War to their frank assessments of major figures; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, this is a transformative vision of America's second revolution.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Slaves - Southern States - Biography.; Freedmen - United States - Biography.; African Americans - Biography.; African Americans.; Freedmen.; Slaves.; Social aspects.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - African Americans.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.; Southern States.; United States.; Biography.; History.; Personal narratives.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.711 W256

From Rocky Springs Park to the Orange Street Convention Hall : the origins of Pentecostalism in Lancaster

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo342

Author: Armstrong, Karl Daniel.

Date of Publication: 1992.

From Rocky Springs Park to the Orange Street Convention Hall: The Origins Of Pentecostalism in Lancaster By K. Daniel Armstrong Change permeated the air of America at the beginning of the twentieth century. "The Progressive Era," as it came to be known, was marked by political, economic, and social

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Responsibility: by K. Daniel Armstrong.

Author: Armstrong, Karl Daniel.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1992.

Physical Description: [34]-51 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 94, no. 2

Subjects: Pentecostalism - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

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The journal of Johann Michael Lindenmuth (1737-1812)

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Author: Lindenmuth, Johann Michael,

Date of Publication: c2000.

Call Number: 973.2 L744

Responsibility: transcribed and translated by Brigitte Burkett ; foreword by Lewis Bunker Rohrbach.

ISBN: 0897254058 (alk. paper)

Author: Lindenmuth, Johann Michael,

Place of Publication: Rockport, Me

Publisher: Picton Press,

Date of Publication: c2000.

Physical Description: 128 p. ; 22 cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Summary: "Johann Michael Lindenmuth has left us one of the better day-to-day journals of the French & Indian War as well as a brief journal of his service in the Revolutionary War...When Lindenmuth was discharged in December 1759, he had fought through a multitude of the battles, skirmishes, and ambushes in western Pennsylvania. In a laconic, direct, and simple style he tells of what happened, who did it, and why. Amid the tales of scalping, looting, murder, mayhem, and of boredom, fatigue, huger, and desparir, Lindemuth also tells us of his family and friends, his ancestors, and his children and grandchildren." [from the back cover]

Subjects: Lindenmuth, Johann Michael, - 1737-1812; Soldiers - Pennsylvania - Diaries.; German Americans - Pennsylvania - Diaries.; Farmers - Pennsylvania - Diaries.; United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Personal narratives.; Pennsylvania - History - Revolution, 1776-1783 - Personal narratives.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Personal narratives.

Additional Author: Burkett, Brigitte.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.2 L744

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