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The Reading militia in the great war / by J. Bennett Nolan ... published under the auspices of the Historical society of Berks county

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Author: Nolan, J. Bennett

Date of Publication: [1921]

Call Number: 974.816 R287n

Author: Nolan, J. Bennett

Place of Publication: Reading, Pa

Publisher: Printed by F. A. Woerner

Date of Publication: [1921]

Physical Description: 206 p. ; 19 cm.

Contents: The career of Company I, later known at Company D, 150th machine gun battalion, Forty-second division, American expeditionary force.--The career of Company A, later known as Company B, 106th machine gun battalion, Twenty-eighth division, American expeditionary force.

Subjects: United States. - Army. - Machine Gun Battalion, 10th.; United States. - Army. - Machine Gun Battalion, 135th.; World War, 1914-1918 - Pennsylvania - Reading.; World War, 1914-1918 - United States

Additional Corporate Author: Historical Society of Berks County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 974.816 R287n

Battle field and prison pen, or Through the war, and thrice a prisoner in rebel dungeons. A graphic recital of personal experiences throughout the whole period of the late war for the Union

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Author: Urban, John W.

Date of Publication: [1882]

Call Number: 817 U72b

Responsibility: By John W. Urban ...

Author: Urban, John W.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Hubbard Brothers,

Date of Publication: [1882]

Physical Description: xii, 13-422 p. front., plates. ports. 19 1/2 cm.

Subjects: United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Prisoners and prisons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 817 U72b

The Twenty-eighth division, Pennsylvania's guard in the world war; forewards by the commanding generals. The history of the Keystone or Iron division in the world war. Also the history and traditions of the Pennsylvania national guard and its predecessor the Pennsylvania militia

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Author: Martin, Edward,

Date of Publication: [c1923-24]

Call Number: 940.412 M379 Oversize

Responsibility: Compiled from official and private records, by Colonel Edward Martin, assisted by officers and men of the various units; E.S. Wallace ... editor ...

Author: Martin, Edward,

Place of Publication: Pittsburgh, Pa

Publisher: 28th division Pub. Co.

Date of Publication: [c1923-24]

Physical Description: 5 v. fronts., illus. (incl. ports., maps) 2 col. pl. 35 cm.

Subjects: United States. - Army. - Infantry Division, 28th.; World War, 1914-1918 - United States.

Additional Author: Wallace, Edwin Sherman,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 940.412 M379 Oversize

My experiences mid shot and shell and in rebel den, a graphic recital of personal experiences throughout the entire civil war

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Author: Urban, John W.

Date of Publication: 1882.

Call Number: 817 U72m

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Alternate Title: Battle field and prison pen, or Through the war, and thrice a prisoner in rebel dungeons

Responsibility: By John W. Urban ...

Author: Urban, John W.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: For the author,

Date of Publication: 1882.

Physical Description: xi, [1], 13-633 p. incl. plates, front., plates, ports.

Notes: Other editions published under titles, "Battle field and prison pen," "Through the war and thrice a prisoner in rebel dungeons."

Contents: Contents : The Overt Act of Treason and It's effect North and South --- Advance of the Grand Army From Washington and It's Defeat at Bull Run --- Departure of McClellan's Army For the Peninsula --- Advance of McDowell From Washington --- The Seven Days Fight On the Peninsula -- My First Capture --- Army of The Potomac and McClellan's Defence of The Capital --- Extravagant Errors, Halleck and Stanton In Control --- General Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania and The Battle of Gettysburg --- Northern Campaign, Confederate Authorities Desperate --- Battle of The Wilderness , Our Capture and Recapture --- Advance of Grant's Forces -- Andersonville --- Hanging of The Thieves --- Enlargement of Our Prison --- Andersonville In August --- Millen Prison --- Florence Prison --- St. John's Gollege Hospital

Summary: The author tells of his experiences in the Civil War, including time spent in Confederate prisons.

Subjects: United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Prisoners and prisons.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 817 U72m

Websites

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A Christmas reminder : being the names of about eight thousand persons, a small portion of the number confined on board the British prison ships during the war of the Revolution

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Corporate Author: Society of Old Brooklynites (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Date of Publication: 1888.

Call Number: 973.371 B872

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Responsibility: with the compliments of the Society of Old Brooklynites.

Corporate Author: Society of Old Brooklynites (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

Place of Publication: Brooklyn, N.Y

Publisher: Eagle print.,

Date of Publication: 1888.

Physical Description: 61 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Jersey (Prison-ship); Great Britain. - Royal Navy - Prisons.; Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.); Prison hulks - New York (State) - New York.; Prisoners of war - United States.; United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.371 B872

Websites

https://archive.org/details/christmasreminde00soci/page/n6

A Chinese soldier in the Civil War

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Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Date of Publication: 1921

. United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Publisher: Lancaster, Pa. : Lancaster County Historical Society, 1921 Description: 52-55 p. ; 23 cm. Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 3 Call Number: 974.9 L245 v.25

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Responsibility: by William Frederic Worner.

Author: Worner, William Frederic.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1921

Physical Description: 52-55 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 25, no. 3

Subjects: Woo, Hong Neok, - 1834-1919.; United States. - Army - History; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 25, number 3 (1921), p. 52-55Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.25

Documents

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Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war

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Author: Boyd, John Parker,

Date of Publication: 1816

Call Number: Book 461 1816

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Author: Boyd, John Parker,

Place of Publication: [Place of publication not identified]

Publisher: [publisher not identified],

Date of Publication: 1816

Physical Description: 28 pages ; 23 cm

Notes: Caption title.; Defending the author's generalship.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates signature at top of title page.; Book number 461 as assigned by Yeates.; Bound with Proposals, by Farrand and Nichholas for publishing by subscription ...The American Review of history and politics. Place not identified: publisher not identified, 1810 -- Proposals for publishing by subscription, a translation from the French, of. LeSages's historical genealogial chronological and geographical atlas. Philadelphia: Jane Aiken, 1819 -- A description of the chain bridge; invented by Judge Finley, of Fayette County Pennsylvania...Uniontown, Pa: William Campbell, 1811 -- The pioneeer, vol. I, no. IV, May 5, 1812 -- The Port folio (new series) by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Philadelphia, Saturday, March 12, 1808 -- Annual discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th of November 1810 by Joseph Hopkinson. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep; Inseeep and Bradford, New York: and William M'Ilhenry, Boston, Sweeny & M'Kenzie, printers, 1810 -- Reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons on the30th of April, 1792, by Thomas Cooper. London: printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard; and M Falkner and Co., Manchester, M,DCC,XCII (1792) -- Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooiper, esquire, president judge of the eighth judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct. Lancaster: printed by William Hamilton, 1811; -- [Narrative on the title of West Florida]. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Observations on the conduct of our executive towards Spain. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Letters, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania respecting the internal improvement, of the commonwealth; by means of roads and canals by William J. Duane. Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aiken, No 71, North Third Street, 18ll --An address of the members of theHouse of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to their consitutents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain. Philadelphia: printed at the office of the United States' Gazette, date not identified; Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war by Jno. P. Boyd. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified-- Darstellung des in Baltimore am 27 und 28sten Julii, 1812, gemachten Angriffs auf die presfreyheit, und das leben der Bertheidiger defelben. Philadelphia: gedruct bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zwenten Stresse, unterhalb der Regs Strasse, 1812 -- Plan of an improved system of the money-concerns of the Union by Erick Bollman, M.D. Philadelphia: printed for the auther. Wiliam Fry, printer, Walnut, near Fifth Street, 1816; Articles of the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. Place not idenifiied: Printed by Hugh Hamilton, date not identified.

Summary: The writer is a General from the War of 1812 who had suffered defeats during the war and was not chosen to remain in the Army after the war. He defends his performance in this letter.

Subjects: Boyd, John Parker, - 1764-1830.; Military campaigns.; United States - History - War of 1812 - Campaigns.; United States.; History.; Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 461 1816

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Archive

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Collection: World War I Collection

Title: World War I Collection

Object ID: MG0045

Date Range: 1916-1972

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Collection: World War I Collection

Title: World War I Collection

Description: The World War I Collection contains the contents of a scrapbook assembled by an unknown WWI veteran. Included are military draft cards, photographs of Ambulance Co. No. 111, 28th Division, photographs and programs for dedication of memorial monument to Ambulance Co. No. 111, postcards of France, newspaper clippings, and posters.

Date Range: 1916-1972

Year Range From: 1916

Year Range To: 1972

Creator: LancasterHistory (Organization)

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 02

People: Andrews, David F.; Benda, W. T.; Beneker, Gerrit A.; Boyce, C. M.; Breitigan, Abraham; Brenner, William A.; Brown, Arthur William; Bryson, Raymond; Bull, Charles Livingston; Carbaugh, Calvin A.; Chambers, Charles E.; Christy, Howard Chandler; Cover, Martin; Culp, Guy; Daugherty, James A.; Davis, Robert Courtney; De Maris, Walter; Dommel, Elmer; Drepperd, C. W.; Eschbach, H. H.; Fergeson, George; Fisher, Harrison; Foringer, A. E.; Forsythe, Clyde; France, Charles; Fulton, Hugh R.; Gibble, Ammon; Griest, William Walton; Habel, Albert A.; Harner, Marvin; Helwig, John W.; Hendee, A.; Hiemenz, Edward A.; Hiestand, Benjamin; Hottenstein, H.; Kahl, William; Kellish, William; Kimmel, Harry; Krone, Herbert D.; Landis, Estes B.; Leber, Paul Revere; Lundy, Edwin H.; Lyons, Julius; Matricardi, Frank; McFarland, Owen; McKee, W. M.; Miller, Peter; Moore, Luther; Musser, John W.; Myers, S. W.; O'Bryen, Benjamin Frank; Orr, Alfred Everitt; Palm, Elam B.; Shafer, L. A.; Shenk, Roy; Shoop, J. M.; Small, W. F.; Snyder, James H.; Tittle, Walter; Usner, Isaac L.; Volk, Douglas; Wauk, S. J.; Worthington, Henry H.; Zellers, George

Subjects: Alco-Gravure; American Lithographic Co.; E. Ketterlinus & Co.; Edwards & Deutsch Litho. Co.; Fatherless Children of France (Organization); Lithography; Posters; Rusling Wood, Litho.; Sackett & Wilhelms Litho. & Prt. Co.; Scrapbooks; Strobridge Lithographing Company; United States. Army; United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 28th; Veterans--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; W.F. Powers Co.; William H. Forbes & Company; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918--Pennsylvania--Lancaster County; YMCA of the USA

Search Terms: 28th Division; Alco-Gravure; Ambulance Company No. 111; American Expeditionary Forces, Ambulance Company No. 111; American Lithographic Company; American Red Cross; Committee on Public Information Division of Pictorial Society; E. Ketterlinus and Company; Edwards and Deutsch Lithographic Company; Emergency Fleet Corporation; Fatherless Children of France (Organization); Finding aids; Haywood Strasser and Voigt Lithographic Company; Lithography; Manuscript groups; Military draft cards; Posters; Prohibition; Rotoprint Gravure Company; Rusling Wood, Litho.; Sackett and Wilhelms Lithographing and Printing Company; Scrapbooks; Strobridge Lithographing Company; United States Army; United States Army, American Expeditionary Forces; United States Army, Infantry Division, 28th; Veterans; W. F. Powers Company; William H. Forbes and Company; World War I; WWI; YMCA; Commission for Relief in Belgium

Extent: 1 box, 49 folders, 31 posters, 2 cubic ft.

Object Name: Archive

Language: English

Object ID: MG0045

Related Item Notes: MG-28 The Society of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces; MG-0028 The Society of the 28th Division, American Expeditionary Forces

Additional Notes: The World War I Collection contains the contents of a scrapbook assembled by an unknown WWI veteran. Included are military draft cards, photographs of Ambulance Co. No. 111, 28th Division, photographs and programs for dedication of memorial monument to Ambulance Co. No. 111, postcards of France, newspaper clippings, and posters.

Access Conditions / Restrictions: Restrictions are noted at the item level.

Copyright: Collection may not be photocopied. Please direct questions to Research Center Staff at research@lancasterhistory.org.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Other Numbers: MG-45

Classification: MG0045

Description Level: Fonds

Custodial History: Cataloged before 1997. Items have been added to the collection since 1997 and the finding aid has been revised accordingly. Added to database on 19 July 2017.