The chronicles of Middletown, containing a compilation of facts, biographical sketches, reminiscences, anecdotes, &c., connected with the history of one of the oldest towns in Pennsylvania
Christiana Riot Site and Monument--The Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge--Fulton Hall--Railroads, Stations and Yards--The Yard at Dillerville--Pennsylvania Railroad Station Lancaster City--Norris Locomotive Works--Caldwell House Hotel and Abraham Lincoln--Camp of Instruction-122nd Pa. Volunteer Infantry--General John Reynolds-Birthplace and Grave Site--President James Buchanan--Wheatland--Grave Site--Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church--Lancaster Soldiers and Sailors Monument--Millersville Civil War Monument.
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
Keystone Confederates : Pennsylvanians who fought for Dixie / Christian B. Keller -- Avenue of dreams : patriotism and the spectator at Philadelphia's Great Central Sanitary Fair / Elizabeth Milroy -- "We were enlisted for the war" : ladies' aid societies and the politics of women's work during the Civil War / Rachel Filene Seidman -- "The world will little note nor long remember" : gender analysis of civilian responses to the Battle of Gettysburg / Christina Ericson -- The Avery Monument : the elevation of race in public sculpture and the Republican Party / Henry Pisciotta -- The Civil War letters of Quartermaster Sergeant John C. Brock, 43rd regiment, United States Colored Troops / edited by Eric Ledell Smith -- Sites of memory, sites of glory : African-American Grand Army of the Republic posts in Pennsylvania / Barbara A. Gannon -- "A disgrace that can never be washed out" : Gettysburg and the lingering stigma of 1863 / Jim Weeks -- "Magnificence and terrible truthfulness" : Peter F. Rothermel's The Battle of Gettysburg / Mark Thistlethwaite -- The brothers' war : Gettysburg the movie and American memory / William Blair.
xv, 334 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-324) and index.
Summary
"Camp Curtin is forgotten today by nearly all except die-hard Civil War buffs. Yet during almost five years of operation, more than 300,000 Union soldiers passed through there, making it the largest of the makeshift camps of rendezvous and training set up near major northern cities. In this well-researched chronicle, Miller examines why the camp became 'the most important military post in what was arguably the state most important to the North's war effort.' Named for Andrew Curtin, the tireless pro-Union governor of Pennsylvania, the post was strategically crucial because of its proximity to Washington and Harper's Ferry. Roughly similar to a boot camp, it had the thankless task of instilling discipline into its idealistic but raw volunteers and draftees. Although Miller follows these soldiers as they entered the war's maelstrom at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Petersburg, he writes more vividly about their rude introduction to army regimen at the camp itself, particularly in the disorganized early days of the war." [Kirkus Reviews]
