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
Van Wyck served as a Civil War Union Brigadier General, US Congressman, US Senator. He was the Sullivan County, New York, District Attorney 1850 to 1856 and was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, serving 1859 to 1863.After his term, he entered the Union Army as Colonel of the 56th Regiment, New York Volunteers and commanded it during the Civil War.He was brevetted Brigadier General for services during the war and elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving 1867 to 1869. He moved to Nebraska in 1874 and was elected as a Republican to the US Senate and served from 1881 to 1887.
Summary
This speech was made a year before the Civil War criticizing slavery and the Democrat party.
This essay provides contextual information concerning how the English actually hired the soldiers and why the German princes, and not other nations who were asked, were willing to sell their men to English. It also discusses how the English and German public reacted to the hiring of German soldiers.
3 p. ø., 9-14, [2] p., 1 ø., 13-335, [2], 336-530 p. incl. front. (port) illus., facsim. plates, ports., maps, facsims., coat of arms, fold. geneal. tab. 24 cm.
Notes
Maps on lining-papers; folded genealogical table mounted on back lining-paper.
"There have been 200 copies ... printed--after which the type was destroyed."
Abraham Rudisill was born in Hanover PA on April 14, 1811, and entered the Pennsylvania Conference of the United Brethren Church in 1871 at the age of 60. A truly unique personality, he was a soldier throughout the Civil War, including the Battle of Gettysburg. He was also a self-educated scientist who contributed many articles to scientific journals. As much at home with Greek and Hebrew as with English, he was also a scholar and writer - and for a while he published a paper called The Monthly Friend. More information about Abraham, along with many of his letters, can be found at https://www.lycoming.edu/umarch/chronicles/2012/RudisillCombined.pdf.
The author was a professor of mathematics and chemistry at Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg at the time of the Civil War. He was also the Lutheran pastor at the campus church.This book is a day-by-day account of the invasion beginning weeks before the Battle of Gettyburg. It was published in the year following the battle. The is no bibliography nor footnotes, but there is an excellent map of the battlefield.
