"Paper read before the Hamilton Library and Historical Society on February 12, 1931."
Summary
"Merkel Landis provides a broad overview of what happened in Carlisle during the Civil War. Landis explores important political moments, including Presidential and local elections between 1860 and 1865, as well as describes how Carlisle residents respond to various events during the war. These events include the initial rush to volunteer after Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Confederate occupation of Carlisle in 1863, and General Robert E. Lee surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. In addition, Landis also includes several photographs of places in Carlisle during this period. This essay is from an address that Landis, a member of the Class of 1896, delivered on February 12, 1931 at the Hamilton Library in Carlisle. "
"Paper read before the Hamilton Library and Historical Society on February 12, 1931."
Summary
"Landis explores important political moments, including Presidential and local elections between 1860 and 1865, as well as describes how Carlisle residents respond to various events during the war. These events include the initial rush to volunteer after Fort Sumter in April 1861, the Confederate occupation of Carlisle in 1863, and General Robert E. Lee surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865. In addition, Landis also includes several photographs of places in Carlisle during this period. This essay is from an address that Landis, a member of the Class of 1896, delivered on February 12, 1931 at the Hamilton Library in Carlisle." [from Dickinson.edu]
Contents: George Kline and the Gazette Two Orations of Dr. Nisbet Dr. Davidson's Writings Flour for France The Carlisle Library Company Archibald Loudon Loudon's Song Books The Theatre Loudon's Wonderful Magazine Loudon's Indian Wars The New England Primer H. H. Brackenridge Isabella Oliver's Poems Tizzard's Athenian Oracle Hayes's Rural Poems ... Oliver Pollock The Western Almanac Thomas Cooper John MacFarland Lewis the Robber Rev. George Duffield Bibliography of Carlisle Imprints, 1786-1835 List of Carlisle Newspapers to 1835
Forty years in the wilderness : a sermon delivered in the second Presbyterian Church, Carlisle, Pennsylvania on his fortieth anniversary, January 3, 1909 / by George Norcross
Bound with: Newspaper history of Carlisle and Cumberland County, Pennsylvania / by Charles h. Leeds ; War history : operations of the Union Cavalry on the peninsula, in which some Cunberland County soldiers took part / by William E. Miller ; Moral force vs. conquest and subjugation / by Thomas Sharp ; New Castle in a new world / by Irwin Mahon ; Local history : agricultural society in its infancy / by Helen tritt ; John Price Durbin : first Methodist president of Dickinson Colege, Carlisle / by O. B. Super ; Local history : the York Dillsburg and Greencastle Railroad / by Quitman P. Ahl ; Some Cumberland County physicians of forty years ago / by Israel H. Bentz ; Historical : the study of the Bible, the basics of the Declaration of Independence and the civil and religious liberty provided for in the constitution of the United States / by Richard W. Woods ; Birth and part history of the American flag / by Irwin Mahon ; Local history : events in the vicinity of Philadelphia participated in by the Scotch Irish in the latter part of the year 1777, also a brief accout of Braddock's defeat in French and Indian War, 1755 / by Thomas Sharp ; Local history : first public buildings in Carlisle, court houses / by J. A. Murray ; In memoriam : Charles Lytle Lamberton / by James M. Lamberton ; White man's way : illustrated talks on scientific subjects to "Indian Chiefs" on their visits to the Carlisle Indian School / by Charles F. Himes ; Discovery of coal in northeastern Pennsylvania and life in the mining region / by Emeline D. T. Bedford ; St. Clair's defeat / by Margaret Fleming Murray ; Hon. Frederick Watts / by I. Thornton Osmond ; Civil war times in Carlisle / by Lenore Embick Flower ; Annual report to the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pa...[1902, 1903, 1905-1908, 1910 ] ; Report of the president to the Hamilton Library Association of Carlisle, Pennsylvania...[1911, 1912, 1915-1917, 1919] ; Local history : the Pennsylvania Archives as they apply to Cumberland County / by James Evelyn Pilcher.
