editor, Peter Benes ; associate editor, Jane Montague Benes ; contributing editor, Ross W. Beales, Jr.
Place of Publication
[Boston, Mass.]
Publisher
Boston University,
Date of Publication
1990.
Physical Description
136 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Annual proceedings / Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife ; v. 13
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-131).
Contents
Chapters: Provision for daughters: the accounts of Samuel Lane by Jane C.Nylander /// The "single-parent" households of Portland's Wadsworth-Longfellow House by Joyce Butler /// Murder in Middletown:lower-class life in Connecticut in 1815 by Doris Sherrow /// "Slavish" and other female work in the Parkman household, Westborough, Massachusetts, 1724-1782 by Ross W. Beales, Jr. /// The dilemmas of domestic service in New England, 1750-1850 by Charles A. Hammond /// Home fires: cookstoves in American culture, 1815-1900 by Priscilla J.Brewer /// "A great help to many families": straw braiding inMassachusetts before 1825 by Caroline Sloat /// Eliza WildesBourne of Kennebunk: professional fancy weaver, 1800-1820 by Sandra S. Armentrout /// Selected bibliography on aspects of house and home in New England and the Northeast before 1870 by Gerald W.R. Ward
v. 1. Urbanization and the growth of cities -- v. 2. The physical city -- v. 3. Politics and government -- v. 4. The economy -- v. 5. The working class and its culture -- v. 6. Transportation and communication -- v. 7. Social structure and social mobility -- v. 8. Institutional life.
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]
Harriet Fritz of Cumru Twp., Berks Co., Pa. : John Steffy of Warwick Twp., Lancaster Co., Pa., Albert Ebling of Auburn, Schuylkill Co., Pa. and their children born in Fulton and Miami Counties, Indiana
