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
Printed at the Methodist Book Concern, for the author,
Date of Publication
1863.
Physical Description
546 p. port. 19 cm.
Summary
This is an autobiography. The author was born in Lancaster, PA, in 1811. His parents sailed from Ireland in 1801.
Notes
Maxwell Pierson Gaddis (1811-1888) was a prolific author and Methodist itinerant preacher. His best known book is his autobiography "Footprints of an Itinerant".
Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands
Directory of Lancaster County: : embracing a full list of all the adult males and heads of families, with their occupation, residence, and P.O. address, and a classified business directory. Also, an appendix, containing a descriptive list of the courts, banking houses, public buildings, churches, educasional [sic] and benevolent institutions, secret and other societies, &c., &c. 1869-70
Trial of the assassins and conspirators for the murder of Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of Vice-President Johnson and the whole cabinet : the most intensely interesting trial on record : containing the evidence in full, with arguments of counsel on both sides, and the verdict of the military commission : correct likenesses and graphic history of all the assassins, conspirators, and other persons connected with their arrest and trial
21-102 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., map, plans, ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Trial of David E. Herold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis Payne, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler, Samuel Arnold, Mary E. Surratt, and Samuel A. Mudd, before a military commission at Washington, D.C.
The Holy Bible : containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised
Text printed in double column, verse form, single rule down center of page, with verse nos. indented in matching type. Title centered at top of page, with running heads, between single rules. Entire printed page within single rules. Italic chapter summaries in smaller print. References in marginal columns at both sides of page, with chronology at top of column.
N.T. has special title page and pagination.
On fly leaf: "Presented to Jno. C. Willson by his Uncle, John Wilson, Maytown, Thursday, Feb 9, 1865." with the Bible verses following.
J.B. Lippincott, For the Historical society of Pennsylvania,
Date of Publication
1864.
Physical Description
1 p. 1., v-xx, 13-495 p. 25 cm.
Notes
With additions to contents of original edition.
Contents
Includes notices of the life and character of Robert Proud, by Charles West Thomson and Biographical sketch of Sir William Keith one of the former governors of the Province of Pennsylvania .
School history of Pennsylvania, from the earliest setlements to the present time. Designed for common schools, academies, colleges, families, and libraries
This is a book written in 1869 to instruct school students in the history of Pennsylvania. It is not a history of schools. Chapters address various periods in the history of the state from the first settlements to the Civil War. Several appendices include names of government officials, a chronology of events, data on railroads and canals, and other information.
