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Dear Catharine, dear Taylor : the Civil War letters of a Union soldier and his wife

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Author
Peirce, Taylor,
Date of Publication
2002.
Call Number
973.781 P378
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edited by Richard L. Kiper ; letters transcribed by Donna B. Vaughn.
ISBN
070061205X (alk. paper)
Author
Peirce, Taylor,
Place of Publication
Lawrence
Publisher
University Press of Kansas,
Date of Publication
2002.
Physical Description
xii, 448 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Series
Modern war studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-438) and index.
Contents
August 20, 1862 to March 22, 1863, Missouri -- March 28 to September 24, 1863, the Vicksburg Campaign -- October 4, 1863 to July 24, 1864, Texas and Louisiana -- July 26, 1864 to December 25, 1864, Virginia -- January 9, 1865 to August 2, 1865, South Carolina, North Carolina, Iowa.
Summary
"While there are many collections of letters from Civil War soldiers to their wives, very few include such a rich trove of letters from the homefront. Together they paint an engrossing portrait of a soldier and husband who was trying to do his patriotic and familial duty, and of a wife trying to cope with loneliness and responsibility while longing for her husband's safe return. Beautifully edited and annotated...they bring to life a nation under siege and provide a rare look at the war's impact on both the common soldier and his family." [from the book jacket]
Subjects
Peirce, Taylor, - 1822-1901
Peirce, Catherine L., - d. 1867
United States. - Army. - Iowa Infantry Regiment, 22nd (1862-1865)
Soldiers - United States - Correspondence.
Army spouses - Iowa - Des Moines - Correspondence.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.
Iowa - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
Iowa - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.
Des Moines (Iowa) - Biography.
Additional Author
Peirce, Catherine L.,
Kiper, Richard L.,
Vaughn, Donna B.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.781 P378
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Martial deeds of Pennsylvania

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Author
Bates, Samuel P.
Edition
Author's ed.
Date of Publication
1875.
Call Number
974.8033 B329m
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Responsibility
By Samuel P. Bates ...
Author
Bates, Samuel P.
Edition
Author's ed.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
T.H. Davis & Co.,
Date of Publication
1875.
Physical Description
1116 p. incl. front. pl., port., maps (1 fold.) 26 cm.
Notes
A history of Pennsylvania during the Civil War.
Contents
pt. I. General history.--pt. II. Biography.--pt. III. Civil and miscellaneous.
Subjects
Gettysburg Campaign, 1863.
Pennsylvania - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Pennsylvania - Biography.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories - Pennsylvania.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
974.8033 B329m
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The Slaves' War : the Civil War in the words of former slaves

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Author
Ward, Andrew,
Date of Publication
2008.
Call Number
973.711 W256
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Andrew Ward.
ISBN
9780618634002
0618634002
9780547237923
0547237928
Author
Ward, Andrew,
Place of Publication
Boston
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date of Publication
2008.
Physical Description
xiv, 386 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-372) and index.
Summary
The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves' theories about the causes of the Civil War to their frank assessments of major figures; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, this is a transformative vision of America's second revolution.--From publisher description.
Subjects
Slaves - Southern States - Biography.
Freedmen - United States - Biography.
African Americans - Biography.
African Americans.
Freedmen.
Slaves.
Social aspects.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - African Americans.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.
Southern States.
United States.
Biography.
History.
Personal narratives.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.711 W256
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Civil War medicine : a patient's account

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Call Number
905.748 PDF v. 26, no.5
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Responsibility
edited by David A. Rausch.
Physical Description
p. 46 - 48.
Notes
Pennsylvania Folklife, v. 26, no. 5 (Fall 1976 - Summer 1977).
Summary
This periodical article describes the care and treatment of Eli Tarbell following his injury in battle near Atlanta, Georgia. Mr Tarbell enlisted in the Union Army in October 1861 in Pennsylvania. He was injured in May 1864.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Hospitals.
Additional Author
Rausch, David A.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 PDF v. 26, no.5
Websites
https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1073&context=pafolklifemag
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Don't forget it the Civil War military correspondence of Private John W. Bookman, 45th regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry

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Date of Publication
1997
Call Number
973.781 B724
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Publisher
Typescript
Date of Publication
1997
Physical Description
7, unp. 28 cm.
Subjects
Personal narratives
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865.
Diaries
Additional Author
Lenox, Ronald S.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.781 B724
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My experiences mid shot and shell and in rebel den, a graphic recital of personal experiences throughout the entire civil war

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Author
Urban, John W.
Date of Publication
1882.
Call Number
817 U72m
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Alternate Title
Battle field and prison pen, or Through the war, and thrice a prisoner in rebel dungeons
Responsibility
By John W. Urban ...
Author
Urban, John W.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
For the author,
Date of Publication
1882.
Physical Description
xi, [1], 13-633 p. incl. plates, front., plates, ports.
Notes
Other editions published under titles, "Battle field and prison pen," "Through the war and thrice a prisoner in rebel dungeons."
Contents
Contents : The Overt Act of Treason and It's effect North and South --- Advance of the Grand Army From Washington and It's Defeat at Bull Run --- Departure of McClellan's Army For the Peninsula --- Advance of McDowell From Washington --- The Seven Days Fight On the Peninsula -- My First Capture --- Army of The Potomac and McClellan's Defence of The Capital --- Extravagant Errors, Halleck and Stanton In Control --- General Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania and The Battle of Gettysburg --- Northern Campaign, Confederate Authorities Desperate --- Battle of The Wilderness , Our Capture and Recapture --- Advance of Grant's Forces -- Andersonville --- Hanging of The Thieves --- Enlargement of Our Prison --- Andersonville In August --- Millen Prison --- Florence Prison --- St. John's Gollege Hospital
Summary
The author tells of his experiences in the Civil War, including time spent in Confederate prisons.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Prisoners and prisons.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
817 U72m
Websites
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pst.000020048747
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Life in southern prisons; from the diary of Corporal Charles Smedley, of Company G, 90th regiment Penn'a volunteers, commencing a few days before the "battle of the Wilderness", in which he was taken prisoner, in the evening of the fifth month fifth, 1864: also, a short description of the march to and battle of Gettysburg, together with a biographical sketch of the author

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Author
Smedley, Charles,
Date of Publication
1865.
Call Number
973.781 S637
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Author
Smedley, Charles,
Place of Publication
[Lancaster? Pa.]
Publisher
Ladies' and gentlemen's Fulton aid society,
Date of Publication
1865.
Physical Description
60 p. front. (port.) 19 cm.
Notes
LCHS copy - photocopy. Original in MG-18, Box 9 - Folder 8.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Prisoners and prisons.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
Additional Corporate Author
Pearsol & Geist.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.781 S637
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The diaries of Willam T. Clark of Chestnut Level, Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania : Dating from his enlistment in Co. B 79th Penna. Vet. Vols. September 12, 1861 to November 30, 1865

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Author
Clark, William T.,
Date of Publication
1988.
Call Number
973.781 C596
, they lost 216 men killed, wounded and missing. It is one ofthe higher loss percentages of all the units in the Civil War. Their service there was part of a fine stand by their brigade, led by Col. John C. Starkweather, ofWisconsin. While recovering from that battle, the brigade was assigned to guard
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Responsibility
Transcribed by William G. Davis and Janet B. Davis.
Author
Clark, William T.,
Place of Publication
Computer printout
Date of Publication
1988.
Physical Description
10 vols. ; 28 cm.
Notes
"Transcribed from six volumes of daily entries while in the field with the U. S. Army of the West during the CIvil War, and three volumes of miscellaneous entries."
Library has v. 1-7; copy 2 (v.1-6 )has information about William Clark and the 79th Pennsylvania and computer disc inserted.
Contents
vol 1. 9/12/61 - 5/21/62 Enlistment; Departure; Louisville, Ky.; Tennessee; Raid into Alabama -- v. 2. 5/22/62 - 2/9/63 Tennessee; Kentucky; Battle of Chaplin Hills (Perryville, Ky.; Kentucky hospitals; Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro), Tenn. -- v. 3. 2/10/63 - 10/4/63 Tennessee; Raid into Alabama; Furlough home to recruit during Battle of Gettysburg; Battle of Chickamauga, Tenn. -- v. 4. 10/5/63-6/10/64 Georgia; Tennessee; Battles of Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Ringgold, Tunnel Hill; Regimental furlough home; Battles of Resaca, Buzzard's Roost, Etoway, Georgia -- v. 5. 6/11/64 - 2/11/65 Battles of Kennesaw Mountain, Allatoona, Marietta; The campaign for Altanta; Sherman's March to the Sea;The campaign for Savannah -- v. 6. 2/12/65 - 11/30/65 North through the Carolinas; The capture of Columbia; Battle of Bentonsville, N. C.; Surrender of Gen. Johnston; March to Washinton via Richmond;Victory parade; Return to Chestnut Level -- v. 7. Company B muster list; Original roll of Company B; Reenlistment as Veteran Volunteers (2/8/64); Miscellaneous expenses from January 1864 -- v. 8. Lists of rations issued as Regimental Commissary Sergeant, 1865 -- v. 9. Addenda and maps; Brief histories of W. T. Clark, 79th Regt. P.V.V.; The Clark family; Information on a few persons of note mentioned in the diaries -- v. 10. Rewrite of volume one.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Infantry. - 87th Regiment, 1861-1864.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories - Pennsylvania Infantry - 79th.
Diaries.
Additional Author
Davis, William G.
Davis, Janet B.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.781 C596
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History of the One hundred and fifty-third regiment Pennsylvania volunteers infantry which was recruited in Northampton County, Pa., 1862-1863

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Author
Kiefer, William R.
Date of Publication
1909.
Call Number
974.8033 K47
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Responsibility
Written by Rev. W. R. Kiefer. Assisted by Newton H. Mack.
Author
Kiefer, William R.
Place of Publication
Easton
Publisher
Chemical Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1909.
Physical Description
352 p. illus., plates, ports., fold. map. 24 cm.
Subjects
Pennsylvania Infantry. - 153d Regt., 1862-1863.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Regimental histories - Pennsylvania Infantry - 153d.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
Additional Author
Mack, Newton Heston,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.8033 K47
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Eyewitness to the Civil War : the complete history from secession to Reconstruction

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Date of Publication
c2006.
Call Number
973.7 E97
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Responsibility
edited by Neil Kagan ; narrative by Stephen G. Hyslop ; introduction by Harris J. Andrews.
ISBN
0792262069
9780792262060
9780792252801 (deluxe ed.)
0792252802 (deluxe ed.)
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
National Geographic,
Date of Publication
c2006.
Physical Description
416 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-405) and index.
Contents
Prologue : A nation divided -- 1861 : First blood -- 1862 : Total war -- 1863 : Victory or death -- 1864 : Rebels under siege -- 1865 : The final act -- Epilogue : The nation reunited.
Summary
Records the military, political, social, and cultural history of the Civil War through photographs, artifacts, period illustrations, maps, essays by historians, and firsthand accounts.
Subjects
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Pictorial works.
Additional Author
Kagan, Neil.
Hyslop, Stephen G.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.7 E97
Websites
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006019672.html
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006019672-b.html
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2006019672-d.html
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