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James Buchanan and the coming of the Civil War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17417
Date of Publication
c2013.
Call Number
973.68 B918
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Responsibility
edited by John W. Quist and Michael J. Birkner.
ISBN
9780813044262 (alk. paper)
081304426X (alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Gainesville
Publisher
University Press of Florida,
Date of Publication
c2013.
Physical Description
x, 289 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Papers from a conference held at LancasterHistory.org in 2008. Presentation copy from the editors.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Bum rap or bad leadership? -- James Buchanan, Dred Scott, and the whisper of conspiracy / Paul Finkelman -- Prelude to armageddon: James Buchanan, Brigham Young, and a president's initiation to bloodshed / William P. MacKinnon -- General Jackson is dead: James Buchanan, Stephen A. Douglas, and Kansas policy / Nicole Etcheson -- In defense of doughface diplomacy: a reevaluation of the foreign policy of James Buchanan / John M. Belohlavek -- President James Buchanan: executive leadership and the crisis of the democracy / Michael A. Morrison -- The South has been wronged: James Buchanan and the secession crisis / Jean H. Baker -- "In the midst of a great revolution": the northern response to the secession crisis / William G. Shade -- Joseph Holt, James Buchanan, and the secession crisis / Daniel W. Crofts -- A conversation with William W. Freehling and Michael F. Holt, September 19, 2008 / Moderated by John W. Quist -- Epilogue: James Buchanan's Civil War / Michael J. Birkner.
Summary
An edited volume examining the presidency of James Buchanan and his role engaging the complexities of the debate surrounding the president immediately before Lincoln.
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.
Additional Author
Quist, John W.
Birkner, Michael J.,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.68 B918
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Operation Cinder: A Civil War Spy Novel set in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo21712
Author
Gontz, Todd.
Date of Publication
2017.
Call Number
813.6 G642
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Responsibility
by Todd Gontz.
Author
Gontz, Todd.
Place of Publication
Landisville, Pa
Publisher
Yurchak Printint, Inc.
Date of Publication
2017.
Physical Description
204 p.: maps; 23 cm.
Summary
"The book follows the story of secret agent Tyler Samson, as helps a runaway slave girl elude enemy agents who are hot on their trail. This historical fiction sheds light on the espionage that occurred behind the scenes of the bloody battles of the Civil War. Set in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, home of the author." [Amazon.com]
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Fictional Works.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania - History - Civil War,1861-1865 - Fictional works.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
813.6 G642
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Civil War in the making, 1815-1860

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo17416
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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In the interest of History: Corrections to the published history of the 3rd USCT in the Civil War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20668
Author
Hawkins, Katherine.
Date of Publication
2017.
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by Katherine Hawkins.
Author
Hawkins, Katherine.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory.org,
Date of Publication
2017.
Physical Description
38-49 p.
Summary
This article states that there are errors in two books about the Civil War regarding the 3rd United States Colored Troops. The author says that the book "Lancaster County Pennsylvania In The Civil War" confuses the Corps de Afrique's with the 3rd United States Colored Troops. And the author finds that the "History of Lancaster County Pennsylvania" by Ellis and Evans also has errors regarding the 3rd United States Colored Troops. The author provides corrections to both books.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 118, number 1 (2017), p. 38-49Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article974.9 L245 v. 118, no. 1
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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)

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo2271
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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Responsibility
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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General John Fulton Reynolds : his biography, words and relations

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19538
Author
Berger-Knorr, Lawrence,
Edition
2nd Sunbury Press ed.
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
923.5 R462k
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Responsibility
Lawrence Knorr, Michael A. Riley, Diane E. Watson.
ISBN
9781620061817 (pbk.)
1620061813 (pbk.)
Author
Berger-Knorr, Lawrence,
Edition
2nd Sunbury Press ed.
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, PA
Publisher
Sunbury Press,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
312 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Rev ed. of: General John Fulton Reynolds / compiled by Lawrence Knorr. Camp Hill, PA : Sunbury Press, c2010.
Includes: Kinship of John Fulton Reynolds (p. 250-291).
Genealogy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. For God's sake forward! / by Michael A. Riley -- pt. 2. Reynolds, the last six miles / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 3. Reynolds, his own words before Gettysburg / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 4. The relations of John Fulton Reynolds / by Lawrence Knorr.
Subjects
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863.
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863 - Family.
Reynolds family.
United States. - Army - Biography.
United States. - Army.
Generals - United States - Biography.
Families.
Generals.
Military campaigns.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States.
Personal narratives.
Records and correspondence.
Additional Author
Riley, Michael A.
Watson, Diane E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 R462k
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Damn the fates : A history of Independent Battery I, Pennsylvania Light Artillery, in the American Civil War

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo22230
Author
McSherry, Patrick.
Date of Publication
2018.
Call Number
973.744815 M175
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by Patrick McSherry.
Author
McSherry, Patrick.
Place of Publication
San Bernardino, Ca
Publisher
Publisher not identified ,
Date of Publication
2018.
Physical Description
291 pages :illus., portraits ; 23 cm.
Notes
Contains endnotes pages 230-293.
Summary
"As the confederates advance into Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign, a group of Franklin & Marshall College students follow Robert Nevin, their former professor of Greek, into the army, forming Lancaster County’s only Civil War artillery battery – Independent Battery I, Pennsylvania Light Artillery. Join the men of Independent Battery I as they await the enemy at the Susquehanna River, and at the threatened state capital of Harrisburg. Learn of the experiences in Philadelphia where they expect to quell draft riots, and follow them as they serve at Harpers Ferry in ‘ironclad’ railcars on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and build fortifications on Maryland Heights. March with the men as they are sent to the defenses of Washington DC. Join them as they experience Confederate General Jubal Early’s attack on the city, debate the issues of the 1864 elections, and witness Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, as well as the Grand Review.” [from the publisher]
Subjects
Pennsylvania Light Cavalry - Independent Batterhy I, 1861-1865.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.744815 M175
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Lancaster County and Civil War medicine: Civilian physicians turned military surgeons

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20572
Author
Mingus, Scott L.,
Date of Publication
2016.
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Author
Mingus, Scott L.,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory.org,
Date of Publication
2016.
Physical Description
198-213.
Subjects
Andrews, James P., - Dr.
Nebinger, Augustus Rox, - Dr.
Breneman, Edward de W., - Dr.
Reed, Joseph Andrew Erastus, - Dr.
Frick, Abraham Pfantz, - Dr.
Herr, Ambrose J., - Dr.
Davis, Samuel T., - Dr.
Sample, Samuel R., - Dr.
Sides, Benjamin Franklin, - Dr.
Hinkle, Francis, - Dr.
Folz, Jonathan M.,
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Medical Care.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 117, number 4 (2016), p. 198-213Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.117
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Keystone state in crisis : the Civil War in Pennsylvania

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Author
Giesberg, Judith Ann,
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
974.8033 G455
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Alternate Title
Civil War in Pennsylvania
Responsibility
Judith Giesberg.
ISBN
193230441X
9781932304411
Author
Giesberg, Judith Ann,
Place of Publication
Mansfield, Pa
Publisher
Pennsylvania Historical Association,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
96 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Series
Pennsylvania history studies series
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Something in that Declaration -- The Republican revolution: Pennsylvania picks Lincoln -- Mobilizing for war -- We will die in defense of our right to liberty: the Civil War on Pennsylvania's border -- Combating the threat without and within -- Pennsylvania and the second American Revolution -- A day long to be remembered.
Summary
This book takes you to and beyond the battlefield at Gettysburg, to cities and towns throughout the state where Pennsylvanians fought over the meaning of the Union even as they fought for it. By the time the Civil War began in 1861, white and black Pennsylvanians along the state's southern border-in towns like Sadsbury, Coatesville, and Christiana-had been fighting with slave owners and catchers for a decade. And, more than a year after Lee's Army of Northern Virginia left southcentral Pennsylvania, the town of Chambersburg survived another, even more devastating Confederate invasion. For much longer than four years, Pennsylvanians waged war at home and abroad, to save the Union and to rethink its founding principles. Keystone State in Crisis tells that story. [from the publisher]
Subjects
Politics and government
Pennsylvania - Politics and government - 1861-1865.
Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Political aspects.
Pennsylvania.
Additional Corporate Author
Pennsylvania Historical Association.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8033 G455
Websites
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=41570
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The life of Billy Yank : the common soldier of the Union

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14015
Author
Wiley, Bell Irvin,
Date of Publication
1997, c1952.
Call Number
973.715 W673
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Responsibility
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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