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A Lancaster schoolboy views the Civil War : (diary of Immanuel C. Pehrson, 1862-1863. Collection of the Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College)

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Author
Pehrson, Immanuel C.
Date of Publication
1950
_A Lancaster Schoolboy Views 5 he Civil War (Diary of Immanuel C. Pehrson, 1862-1863. Collection of the Fackenthal Library, Franklin and Marshall College) Reviewed by ELIZABETH C. KIEFFER The Civil War was a year old. Weary bands of new recruits marched through the streets of Lancaster, or pitched
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reviewed by Elizabeth C. Kieffer.
Author
Pehrson, Immanuel C.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1950
Physical Description
[17]-37 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 54, no. 2
Subjects
Pehrson, Immanuel - Diaries.
Diaries.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Lancaster (Pa.) - Social life and customs.
Additional Author
Kieffer, Elizabeth Clarke.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 54, number 2 (1950), p. 17-37Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.54
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Civil War in the making, 1815-1860

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Author
Craven, Avery,
Date of Publication
[1959]
Call Number
973.7 C898
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ISBN
0807101311
9780807101315
Author
Craven, Avery,
Place of Publication
Baton Rouge
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Date of Publication
[1959]
Physical Description
115 p. 21 cm.
Series
The Walter Lynwood Fleming lectures in southern history
Contents
The Republican Party and slavery -- The conservative Southerner -- The democratic process on trial -- The first cold war.
Subjects
United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Causes.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7 C898
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The life of Billy Yank : the common soldier of the Union

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Author
Wiley, Bell Irvin,
Date of Publication
1997, c1952.
Call Number
973.715 W673
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Bell Irvin Wiley.
ISBN
0807104760 (pbk.)
Author
Wiley, Bell Irvin,
Place of Publication
Baton Rouge
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press,
Date of Publication
1997, c1952.
Physical Description
454 p., [20] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Series
Civil War classic
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-446) and index.
Subjects
United States. - Army - Military life.
Soldiers - United States.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.715 W673
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Toward Gettysburg; a biography of General John F. Reynolds

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Author
Nichols, Edward J.
Date of Publication
1958.
Call Number
923.5 R462n
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Author
Nichols, Edward J.
Place of Publication
[University Park]
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press,
Date of Publication
1958.
Physical Description
x, 276 p. illus., maps, ports. 25 cm.
Notes
Bibliography: p. 259-264.
Subjects
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863
Generals - United States
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 R462n
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John Fulton Reynolds

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Author
Scott, John F. R.
Date of Publication
1948
commandant at West Point which he held at the outbreak of the Civil War. The militarists had begun to realize his ability, and he was made a brigadier general of volunteers in August, 1861, and received a brigade of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps. In the many famous battles which were fought in the
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by Col. John Fulton Reynolds Scott (U.S. Army, retired).
Author
Scott, John F. R.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1948
Physical Description
[21]-46 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 52, no. 2
Subjects
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863.
United States. - Army.
Memorials - United States.
Monuments - United States.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 52, number 2 (1948), p. 21-46Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.52
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The Mount Joy Soldier's Orphan School

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Author
Heiges, George L.
Date of Publication
1944
, and because of this, we have here Pennsylvania history with a decided Lancaster County flavor. This sketch is concerned with the children of those gallant Pennsylvania men who defended the Union in the years of our Civil War; and can there- fore properly be considered as Civil War history. Also, as it
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by George L. Heiges.
Author
Heiges, George L.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1944
Physical Description
[109]-[131] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 48, no. 5
Subjects
Curtin, Andrew Gregg, - 1815-1894.
Soldier's Orphan Schools.
Schools - Pennsylvania.
Orphans - Pennsylvania.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 48, number 5 (1944), p. 109-131Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.48
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The Spanglers

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Author
Castor, Henry,
Edition
[1st ed.].
Date of Publication
1948.
Call Number
813.54 C354
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Author
Castor, Henry,
Edition
[1st ed.].
Place of Publication
Garden City, N.Y
Publisher
Doubleday,
Date of Publication
1948.
Physical Description
308 p. 22 cm.
Notes
Signed by author.
Summary
A novel of a Lancaster, Pennsylvania family during the Civil War . The author is a native of Lancaster.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fiction.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.54 C354
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Men of marque; a history of private armed vessels out of Baltimore during the War of 1812

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Author
Cranwell, John Philips,
Date of Publication
1940
Call Number
973.52 C891
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[by] John Philips Cranwell [and] William Bowers Crane.
Author
Cranwell, John Philips,
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Date of Publication
1940
Physical Description
xiv, 15-427 p. plates, ports., fold. map, facsims. 25 cm.
Notes
"First edition."
LCHS copy "number 145 of a special limited and numbered edition which has been autographed by the authors."
Bibliography: p. 415-418.
Summary
A letter of marque and reprisal was a government license that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer. The author states that the activities of the Baltimore privateers "were so many and so varied that, taken as a whole, they represent a cross section of all privateering at the time."
Subjects
Privateering.
Shipping - Maryland - Baltimore.
United States - History - War of 1812 - Naval operations.
Baltimore (Md.) - History - War of 1812.
Additional Author
Crane, William Bowers,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.52 C891
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A tribute

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Author
Eshleman, H. Frank
Date of Publication
1949?]
Call Number
973.76 E75
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prepared by H. Frank Eshleman, attorney-at-law of the Lancaster Co., Pa., Bar and pronounced by him in memory of the departed Union Army soldiers, of the Civil War in the Quarryville cemetery, near Quarryville borough, on Memorial Day, 1949, in the presence and hearing of a large, patriotic assemblage of citizens of the wide surrounding neighborhood.
Author
Eshleman, H. Frank
Place of Publication
[S.l
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1949?]
Physical Description
[2] p. ; 22 cm.
Subjects
Memorial Day addresses.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.76 E75
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Index to the grave records of soldiers of the war of 1812 buried in Ohio

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Author
Diefenbach, H. B.,
Date of Publication
1945]
Call Number
977.1 D559
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compiled 1945 by Mrs. H. B. Diefenbach, assisted by Mrs. C. O. Ross.
Author
Diefenbach, H. B.,
Place of Publication
[n. p
Date of Publication
1945]
Physical Description
71 p. 24 cm.
Subjects
United States - History - War of 1812 - Registers, lists, etc.
Ohio - Biography.
Additional Author
Ross, C. O.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
977.1 D559
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