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, 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

Responsibility: 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

Duties of the Mennonite citizen : controversy in the Lancaster Press late in the Civil War

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Author: Lehman, James O.

Call Number: 905.748 PMH v.7

Responsibility: by James o. Lehman.

Author: Lehman, James O.

Physical Description: 5-21 p.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, v.7 (July 1984)

Subjects: Mennonite Church - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County; Conscientious objectors - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.; Pennsylvania - History - Civil War - 1861-1865 - Conscientious objectors.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 PMH v.7

Mennonites, Amish, and the American Civil War

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Author: Lehman, James O.

Date of Publication: 2007.

Call Number: 973.7088 L523

Responsibility: James O. Lehman and Steven M. Nolt.

ISBN: 9780801886720 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0801886724 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Author: Lehman, James O.

Place of Publication: Baltimore, Md

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,

Date of Publication: 2007.

Physical Description: xi,353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series: Young Center books in Anabaptist and Pietist studies

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction : religion, religious minorities, and the American Civil War -- Politics and peoplehood in a restless republic -- Our country is at war -- Conscription, combat, and Virginia's "war of self-defense," 1861-1862 -- Negotiation and notoriety in Pennsylvania, 1862 -- Patterns of peace and patriotism in the Midwest -- The fighting comes north, 1862-1863 -- Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite politics -- Did Jesus Christ teach men war? -- Resistance and revenge in Virginia, 1863-1864 -- Burning the Shenandoah Valley -- Reconstructed nation, reconstructed peoplehood.

Subjects: Mennonites - United States; Amish - United States; Anabaptists - United States; Pacifists - United States; War; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Religious aspects.; United States - Politics and government - 1861-1865.; United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Social aspects.

Additional Author: Nolt, Steven M.,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 973.7088 L523

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Conflicting loyalties of the Christian citizen : Lancaster Mennonites and the early Civil War era

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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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