A constitutional view of the late war between the states : its causes, character, conduct and results ; presented in a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall
Printed at the Methodist Book Concern, for the author,
Date of Publication
1863.
Physical Description
546 p. port. 19 cm.
Summary
This is an autobiography. The author was born in Lancaster, PA, in 1811. His parents sailed from Ireland in 1801.
Notes
Maxwell Pierson Gaddis (1811-1888) was a prolific author and Methodist itinerant preacher. His best known book is his autobiography "Footprints of an Itinerant".
pub. by the Committee on Hospitals for the Great Central Fair for the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
H.B. Ashmead, printer,
Date of Publication
1864.
Physical Description
60 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Sketches of army and navy life.
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Contents
Reminiscences of prison life by one of the rank and file -- Soldier life of John W. Whaples -- The father's lament -- Union refreshment saloons, Phila. -- Description of a battle -- What a Union woman suffered -- Died of his wounds
Founded in Jan. 1842, by Charles J. Peterson, this women's magazine included serial installments, short stories, poems, patterns, publisher's notes, and book reviews. Among its contributors were Mrs. Ann S. Stephens and Emily H. May Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
The author was a professor of mathematics and chemistry at Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg at the time of the Civil War. He was also the Lutheran pastor at the campus church.This book is a day-by-day account of the invasion beginning weeks before the Battle of Gettyburg. It was published in the year following the battle. The is no bibliography nor footnotes, but there is an excellent map of the battlefield.
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
At head of title: New-England loyal publication society.
Preface signed: Edward Atkinson.
Six letters written for "The Evening post" of New York and now revised with additions. cf. Pref.
Summary
"I have endeavored to prove that specie payment may be resumed, confidence restored, and our bonds now bearing a high rate of interest converted into bonds at a much lower rate, by simply passing laws which shall coincide with the acts a merchant would perform if he found himself in the position in which the Government is now placed. The main point presented is, that we should decide the manner in which we intend to pay our debt, by beginning actual payment in coined dollars, and thus restore our credit. We have as yet settled none of our debt by actual payment, but have simply received our depreciated paper for taxes, and have therewith cancelled a portion of our bonds, or else by the sale of gold we have recognized our own discredit in the purchase of our bonds at a discount." [from the preface]
An essay written during the Civil War that warns that slavery has concentrated power in the slave owners in the South - those who had been able to buy slaves and expand their business. Such power was destabilizing for society as a whole and should not be permitted following the war. "A numerous and independent yeomanry - that is to say , a large class of fairly schooled, intelligent, and respectable freeholders, of moderate, yet sufficient estate - spread over the country, with an honorable share in its government, constitutes one of the most important elements of a healthful state of a nation, and is wholly indispensable to a people whose type of government is that of substantial and orderly freedom..."
published monthly under the aspices of the Lancaster County Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Wylie and Griest, Inquirer Printing House,
Date of Publication
1869-
Physical Description
v. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Library has v. 1 - v. 16.
Publisher: v. 1- (1869) Lancaster, Pa.: Wylie & Griest, Inquirer Printing House and Book Bindery - v. 2-3 (1870-1871) Lancaster, Pa.: Wylie & Griest, Inquirer Printing House and Bindery - v. 4 (1872) Lancaster, Pa: J. B. Develin, Publisher, Wylie & Griest, Inquirer Printing House and Bindery - v. 5 (1873) Lancaster, Pa: J. B. Develin, Publisher, Inquirer Printing and Publishing Company - v. 6 Lancaster, Pa.: Pearson & Geist, Printers - v. 7 (1875) Lancaster, Pa.: Pearsol & Giest, Printers and Publishers - v. 8 (1876) Lancaster, Pa. : John A. Hiestand Printer and Publisher - v. 9-10 (1877 - 1878) Lancaster, Pa. : Linnæus Rathvon, Publisher - v. 11-16 (1879-1884) Lancaster, Pa. : John A. Hiestand, Publisher.
