A sketch of the early life and of the civil and military services of Maj. Gen. John W. Geary, candidate of the National Union Party for governor of Pennsylvania
History of the Pennsylvania reserve corps: a complete record of the organization; and of the different companies, regiments and brigades; containing descriptions of expeditions, marches, skirmishes, and battles; together with biographical sketches of officers and personal records of each man during his term of service
Pennsylvania reserves in the peninsula : General M'Call's official reports of the part taken by his division in the battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mills, and New Market Cross Roads, together with statements of Generals Mead [!] and Porter, and Colonels Stone, Fisher, Hays, Warner, Taggart, Roberts, Bollinger, and others
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.
Names of persons who took the oath of allegiance to the State of Pennsylvania, between the years 1777 and 1789, with a history of the "Test laws" of Pennsylvania
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 .
Iron, railroad, canal and coal map of Pennsylvania, &c. : showing the relative position of the various anthracite and bituminous coal fields, the railroads, canals and navigable waters by which they are connected forming their respective avenues to market, also the furnaces, rolling mills, bloomeries and forges of Pennsylvania and adjoining states
Shows coal and oil regions from Lake Ontario through much of West Virginia; most of New York State is shown, though without geological detail. Also shows locations of steel works, foundries, etc.
Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdote, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania, from the days of the founders : intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes and manners and customs, and the city and country in their local changes and improvements
Life in southern prisons; from the diary of Corporal Charles Smedley, of Company G, 90th regiment Penn'a volunteers, commencing a few days before the "battle of the Wilderness", in which he was taken prisoner, in the evening of the fifth month fifth, 1864: also, a short description of the march to and battle of Gettysburg, together with a biographical sketch of the author
Revised report made to the legislature of Pennsylvania , relative to the Soldiers' national cemetery, at Gettysburg, embracing an account of the origin of the undertaking
address of Hon. Edward Everett, at its consecration, with the dedicatory speech of President Lincoln, and the other exercises of that event; together with the address of Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, delivered July 4, 1866 [i. e. 1865], upon the dedication of the Soldiers' national monument, and the other proceedings upon that occasion.
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
History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the territory included within its limit to the present time, with a notice of the geology of the county, and catalogues of its minerals, plants, quadrupeds, and birds, written under the direction and appointment of the Delaware County Institute of Science
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.
Complete catalogue of the names of all the students who have attended the Lititz Academy for Boys, from A.D. 1815 to A.D. 1865, under the direction of Prof. John Beck to which is appended ... a valedictory letter, embracing a brief history of the rise and progress of the institution
