Hombach family history; a history of Dr. Wilhelm Ludwig Hombach who came from Germany to the United States of America in 1836 and of his ancestors and descendants
Postage stamps of the United States : an illustrated description of all United States postage and special service stamps issued by the Post Office Department from July 1, 1847 to December 31, 1961
"The Good side of my family" : a history of the Good-Goode-Guth family of Lancaster Co., Pa., and Waterloo County, Ontario, Canada, with a record of some of the descendants of the family who moved elsewhere
Includes insert map "The Civil War in Carroll County Maryland, the Gettsyburg Campaign".
Contents
North and South -- The first invasion, 1862 -- The cavalry battle, June 29, 1863 -- After the battle -- Troops at Westminster, 1863 -- Transportation, supply and communications -- Sending the news -- Troop movements in 1863 -- Plans for a battle along Pipe Creek -- North and South at Union Mills -- The last invasion, 1864 -- Carroll County towns in the Civil War.
Summary
"These are the accounts of citizens and soldiers who described Civil War events in Carroll County, Md., as they saw them during the war years a century ago. They are eye-witness accounts for the most part, by people who were there at the time and who were the very first to begin recording the history of the war. No other event in American history produced so much documentary material from so many individual sources as did the Civil War. The tremendous emotional impact of this gigantic conflict between Americans, who had lived in a state of comparatively peaceful and romantic isolation from anything so incomprehensible as an ideological war, inspired tens of thousands of both literate and illiterate soldiers and civilians to record the most minute details of their daily experiences, as though they thought posterity would never believe that mankind could produce such vast and terrible chaos"--Preface.
