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
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
The complete analysis of the Holy Bible : or, how to comprehend Holy Writ from its own interpretation, containing the whole of the Old and New Testaments, collected and systematically arranged in thirty books, together with an introduction setting forth the character of the work, and the immense facility this method affords the reader for understanding the word of God. Also, three different tables of contents prefixed, a general index of subjects and a scripture index subjoined, so elaborated and arranged in alphabetical order as to direct at once to any subject required
The prayer of Thaddeus Hyatt to James Buchanan, president of the United States, in behalf of Kansas, asking for a postponement of all the land sales in that territory, and for other relief : together with correspondence and other documents setting forth its deplorable destitution from the drought and famine : submitted under oath, October 29, 1860
"Mr Hyatt was an abolitionist and inventor. In his opposition to slavery, Hyatt organized the efforts of abolitionists in Kansas to have the territory admitted to the Union as a free-state and campaigned for the federal government to aid Kansans afflicted by drought. Hyatt befriended John Brown and provided Brown with financial support; following the raid on Harpers Ferry, Hyatt was investigated by a committee of the United States Senate." [from Wikipedia]
The history, civil, political and military, of the southern rebellion, from its incipient stages to its close. Comprehending, also, all important state papers, ordinances of secession, proclamations, proceedings of Congress, official reports of commanders, etc., etc
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
Life of Jefferson Davis, with a seceret history of the Southern Confederacy, gathered "behind the scenes in Richmond." Containing curous and extraordinary information of the principal southern characters in the late war, in connection with President Davis, and in relation to the various intrigues of his administration
The author was a pro-slavery and pro-secession journalist and writer. A detailed article about him can be found at Encyclopedia.com : https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/energy-government-and-defense-magazines/edward-pollard
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.
An essay on the origin of the Linnaean society of Lancaster city and county, its objects and progress. Read before the association on its 4th anniversary, at the Athenaeum rooms, February 24th, 1866
