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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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Diary of J. H. Druckemiller 79th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment October 6,1861 to December 31, 1862

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Author
Druckemiller, J H.
Date of Publication
1993.
Call Number
973.781 D794
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transcribed by William G. Davis and Janet B. Davis.
Author
Druckemiller, J H.
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
1993.
Physical Description
65 leaves ; 28 cm.
Summary
Mr Druckemiller was a Captain in Company B of the 79th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The diary details his military duties and movements. His references to the weather and daily activities remind the reader of the hardships endured by armies at that time. His writing is clear and succinct.
Subjects
Druckemiller, J. H. - Diaries.
Pennsylvania Infantry. - 79th Regiment, 1861-1862.
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 D794
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Forever free : the story of emancipation and Reconstruction

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Author
Foner, Eric.
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Date of Publication
2006.
Call Number
973.8 F673f
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Eric Foner ; illustrations edited and with commentary by Joshua Brown.
ISBN
0375702741 (pbk.) :
9780375702747 (pbk.)
Author
Foner, Eric.
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Vintage Books,
Date of Publication
2006.
Physical Description
xxx, 268 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Notes
"Forever Free project : Peter O. Almond & Stephen B. Brier, senior producers ; Christine Doudna, editor."
Originally published: Knopf, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.
Contents
The peculiar institution -- True likenesses -- Forever free -- Re-visions of war -- The meanings of freedom -- Altered relations -- An American crisis -- The tocsin of freedom -- On the offensive -- The facts of reconstruction -- Countersigns -- The abandonment of reconstruction -- Jim Crow -- The unfinished revolution.
Summary
Draws on a wide range of documents to offer a new interpretation of the Emancipation and Reconstruction years and the lasting impact they had on the nation's history.
Subjects
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Slaves - United States.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - African Americans.
United States - Race relations - History - 19th century.
United States - Politics and government - 1865-1900.
Additional Author
Brown, Joshua,
Additional Corporate Author
Forever Free, Inc.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.8 F673f
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Reconstruction : America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877

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Author
Foner, Eric.
Edition
1st ed.
Date of Publication
c1988.
Call Number
973.8 F673
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Eric Foner.
ISBN
0060158514 :
006091453X (pbk.) :
Author
Foner, Eric.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Harper & Row,
Date of Publication
c1988.
Physical Description
xxvii, 690 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series
The New American Nation series
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 615-641.
African American resources at Lancaster County Historical Society
The author, Eric Foner, is an American historian. He writes extensively on American political history, the history of freedom, the early history of the Republican Party, African American biography, Reconstruction, and historiography, and has been a member of the faculty at the Columbia University Department of History since 1982. [wikipedia]
Contents
Chapters: The world the war made -- Rehearsals for reconstruction -- The meaning of freedom -- Ambiguities of labor -- The failure of presidential reconstruction -- The making of radical reconstruction -- Blueprints for a Republican south -- Reconstruction : political and economic -- The challenge of enforcement -- The reconstruction of the north -- The politics of depression -- Redemption and after
Summary
"Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans-black and white-responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans." [from the publisher]
Subjects
Reconstruction.
African Americans
United States - Politics and government - 1865-1877.
United States - Politics and government - Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States - Politics and government - 1865-1869.
United States - Political events, 1861-1901
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.8 F673
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