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Letters and papers relating chiefly to the Provincial history of Pennsylvania : with some notices of the writers

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Date of Publication: 1855.

Call Number: 974.8028 B174

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Crissy and Markley, Printers,

Date of Publication: 1855.

Physical Description: cxxxviii, 312 p. ; 21 cm.

Notes: A selection from the "Shippen mss." in possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; with other letters, papers, etc.; Privately printed.

Subjects: Shippen family.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Sources.; United States - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763 - Sources.

Additional Author: Balch, Thomas,; Shippen, Edward,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.8028 B174

"The rage of opposing government" : the Stump affair of 1768

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Author: Ries, Linda A.

Date of Publication: 1984

Call Number: 974.843 CCH v.1, no.1

Responsibility: by Linda A. Ries.

Author: Ries, Linda A.

Place of Publication: Carlisle, Pa

Publisher: Cumberland County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1984

Physical Description: p. 21 - 45 ; 23 cm.

Series: Cumberland County History ; v.1, no.1

Subjects: Stump, Frederick.; Indians of North America - Pennsylvania; Conestoga Massacre, Pa., 1763.; Stump Affair, Pa., 1768.; Pennsylvania - History - French and Indian War, 1755-1763.; Pennsylvania - History - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 974.843 CCH v.1, no.1

The diaries of Willam T. Clark of Chestnut Level, Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : Dating from his enlistment in Co. B 79th Penna. Vet. Vols. September 12, 1861 to November 30, 1865

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Author: Clark, William T.,

Date of Publication: 1988.

Call Number: 973.781 C596

pursuing the Army ofNorthern Virginia on the Peninsula in 1862 as occurring " ...by some fat stove.. .". He was also a deeply religious man, reading his bible daily, and eventually organizing first regimental, then brigade level prayer meetings in the field. Clark went to war a farmer, being raised on a

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Responsibility: Transcribed by William G. Davis and Janet B. Davis.

Author: Clark, William T.,

Place of Publication: Computer printout

Date of Publication: 1988.

Physical Description: 10 vols. ; 28 cm.

Notes: "Transcribed from six volumes of daily entries while in the field with the U. S. Army of the West during the CIvil War, and three volumes of miscellaneous entries."; Library has v. 1-7; copy 2 (v.1-6 )has information about William Clark and the 79th Pennsylvania and computer disc inserted.

Contents: vol 1. 9/12/61 - 5/21/62 Enlistment; Departure; Louisville, Ky.; Tennessee; Raid into Alabama -- v. 2. 5/22/62 - 2/9/63 Tennessee; Kentucky; Battle of Chaplin Hills (Perryville, Ky.; Kentucky hospitals; Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), Tenn. -- v. 3. 2/10/63 - 10/4/63 Tennessee; Raid into Alabama; Furlough home to recruit during Battle of Gettysburg; Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn. -- v. 4. 10/5/63-6/10/64 Georgia; Tennessee; Battles of Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Ringgold, Tunnel Hill; Regimental furlough home; Battles of Resaca, Buzzard's Roost, Etoway, Georgia -- v. 5. 6/11/64 - 2/11/65 Battles of Kennesaw Mountain, Allatoona, Marietta; The campaign for Altanta; Sherman's March to the Sea;The campaign for Savannah -- v. 6. 2/12/65 - 11/30/65 North through the Carolinas; The capture of Columbia; Battle of Bentonsville, N. C.; Surrender of Gen. Johnston; March to Washinton via Richmond;Victory parade; Return to Chestnut Level -- v. 7. Company B muster list; Original roll of Company B; Reenlistment as Veteran Volunteers (2/8/64); Miscellaneous expenses from January 1864 -- v. 8. Lists of rations issued as Regimental Commissary Sergeant, 1865 -- v. 9. Addenda and maps; Brief histories of W. T. Clark, 79th Regt. P.V.V.; The Clark family; Information on a few persons of note mentioned in the diaries -- v. 10. Rewrite of volume one.