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An early letter by Thaddeus Stevens

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Author
Hensel, W. U.
Date of Publication
1906
customers. �file:///Volumes/LCHS%3BLCHSFS01/OCR%20Journal%20Project/PDF%20Biblio%20Info/Pwebrecon.cgi.txt Author: Hensel, W. U. (William Uhler), 1851-1915. Title: An early letter by Thaddeus Stevens / by Hon. W. U. Hensel. Primary Material: Book Subject(s): Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868 --Correspondence
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by Hon. W. U. Hensel.
Author
Hensel, W. U.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1906
Physical Description
396-401 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 10, no. 10
Subjects
Stevens, Thaddeus, - 1792-1868 - Correspondence.
Merrill, James, - 1790-1841.
Merrill, Samuel.
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Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.10
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A Benjamin Franklin letter

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Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Date of Publication
1923
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by William Frederic Worner.
Author
Worner, William Frederic.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1923
Physical Description
103 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 27, no. 5
Summary
Worner presents the text of a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Edward Shippen in 1755. Franklin, as a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, was informing Shippen that he had arranged for two men to work on "the road" [Braddock's road?] and that they would report to Shippen for directions. The writer of this article did not know what "the road " was. He says he cited the letter only because it was one of few letters written by Franklin to someone in Lancaster.
Subjects
Shippen, Edward, - 1703-1781 - Correspondence.
Franklin, Benjamin, - 1706-1790 - Correspondence.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 27, number 1 (1923), p. 103Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.27
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Columbia - the gem

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Author
Kloidt, William.
Date of Publication
1994
Call Number
974.815 COLU K66
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by Bill Kloidt, Sr.
Author
Kloidt, William.
Place of Publication
Columbia, Pa
Publisher
Mifflin Press
Date of Publication
1994
Physical Description
vii, 248 p. 19 cm.
Subjects
Columbia (Pa.) - Correspondence.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.815 COLU K66
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Correspondence of General Edward Hand, of the Continental Line, 1779-1781

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Author
Hand, Edward ,
Date of Publication
1909.
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.33
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Author
Hand, Edward ,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, Pa
Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania ,
Date of Publication
1909.
Physical Description
pp. 353-360 23 cm.
Notes
This record provides a link to this resource on JSTOR's online repository.
In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v. 33.
Subjects
Hand, Edward - 1744-1802 - Correspondence.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Personal narratives.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 HSP v.33
Websites
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/20085477.pdf
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The correspondence of Heinrich Melchior Mühlenberg

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Author
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior,
Date of Publication
c1993-
Call Number
922.4 M952c
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edited and translated by John W. Kleiner and Helmut T. Lehmann.
ISBN
0897250966 (v. 1)
Author
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior,
Uniform Title
Correspondence.
Place of Publication
Camden, Me
Publisher
Picton Press,
Date of Publication
c1993-
Physical Description
v. <1-4 > : port. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Translation of: Die Korrenspondenz Heinrich Melchior Mühlenbergs.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
v. 1. 1740-1747 -- v. 2. 1748-1752 - v. 3 1753-1756 -- v. 4. 1757-1762.
Subjects
Muhlenberg, Henry Melchior, - 1711-1787 - Correspondence.
Lutheran Church - United States
Additional Author
Kleiner, John W.
Lehmann, Helmut T.
Splitter, Wolfgant.
Wengert, Timothy J.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
922.4 M952c
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Dangerous guests : enemy captives and revolutionary communities during the War for Independence

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Author
Miller, Ken,
Date of Publication
2014.
Call Number
973.322 M648
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Ken Miller.
ISBN
9780801450556 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801450551 (cloth : alk. paper)
Author
Miller, Ken,
Place of Publication
Ithaca
Publisher
Cornell University Press,
Date of Publication
2014.
Physical Description
ix, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Notes
Autographed by the author after his presentation of 25 September 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue : a community at war -- "A colony of aliens" : diversity, politics, and war in pre-revolutionary Lancaster, Pennsylvania -- "Divided we must inevitably fall" : war comes to Lancaster -- "A dangerous set of people" : British captives and the making of revolutionary identity -- "'Tis Britain alone that is our enemy" : German captives and the making of American identity -- "Enemies of our peace" : captives, the disaffected, and the refinement of American patriotism -- "The country is full of prisoners of war" : nationalism, resistance, and assimilation -- Epilogue : the empty barracks.
Summary
"As the Americans' principal site for incarcerating enemy prisoners of war, Lancaster stood at the nexus of two vastly different revolutionary worlds: one national, the other intensely local. Captives came under the control of local officials loosely supervised by state and national authorities. Concentrating the prisoners in the heart of their communities brought the revolutionaries' enemies to their doorstep, with residents now facing a daily war at home.Many prisoners openly defied their hosts, fleeing, plotting, and rebelling, often with the clandestine support of local loyalists... The challenge of creating an autonomous national identity in the newly emerging United States was nowhere more evident than in Lancaster, where the establishment of a detention camp served as a flashpoint for new conflict in a community already unsettled by stark ethnic, linguistic, and religious differences. Many Lancaster residents soon sympathized with the Hessians detained in their town while the loyalist population considered the British detainees to be the true patriots of the war. Miller demonstrates that in Lancaster, the notably local character of the war reinforced not only preoccupations with internal security but also novel commitments to cause and country." [from Amazon.com]
Subjects
Yeates, Jasper, - 1745-1817.
Shippen, Edward, - 1639-1712 - Correspondence.
Prisoners of war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Hessians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Nationalism - Pennsylvania - Lancaster
Nationalism.
Prisoners of war.
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
United States.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.322 M648
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Dear brother / by Nancy Plumley

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Author
Plumley, Nancy.
Date of Publication
2012.
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Author
Plumley, Nancy.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
LancasterHistory.org,
Date of Publication
2012.
Physical Description
82-119 p.
Summary
"On April 17, 1865, eighteen year old John Rakestraw left the family farm in Bart Township, Lancaster County, to attend Unionville Academy, a small Quaker boarding school in Chester County. During the time he was away his two older sisters wrote to him regularly. Ten of those letters have survived and they provide a candid and often painfully honest glimpse of life on a Lancaster County farm in the 1860's. Diaries and ledgers kept by John's father, William I. Rakestraw , provide additional insight into that that time and place." [excerpt from the text]
Subjects
Rakestraw, John
Rakestraw family - Correspondence.
Bart (Lancaster County, Pa. : Township) - Personal narratives.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 114, number 3 (2012), p. 82-119Lancaster History Library - Journal974.8 L245 v.114
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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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Dear Mark Twain : letters from his readers

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Date of Publication
c2013.
Call Number
818.409 T969
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edited by R. Kent Rasmussen.
ISBN
9780520261341 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520261348 (cloth : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Berkeley
Publisher
University of California Press,
Date of Publication
c2013.
Physical Description
xviii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Jumping frogs : undiscovered, rediscovered, and celebrated writings of Mark Twain ; 4
Notes
Includes letters from Ellen (Mary) Keily (c.1831-1901) who was a resident at the County Home in Lancaster, Pa. at that time.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Letters: 1861-1870 ;1871-1880 ;1881-1890 ;1891-1900 ;1901-1910.
Summary
Collects two hundred letters from readers of Mark Twain to the author himself, offering a glimpse into the lives and sensibilites of nineteenth-century children, preachers, con artists, inmates, and other fans of the author's work.
Subjects
Twain, Mark, - 1835-1910
Authors, American - Correspondence.
Authors and readers - United States.
Humorists, American - Correspondence.
Additional Author
Rasmussen, R. Kent.
Twain, Mark,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
818.409 T969
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General John Fulton Reynolds : his biography, words and relations

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Author
Berger-Knorr, Lawrence,
Edition
2nd Sunbury Press ed.
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
923.5 R462k
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Lawrence Knorr, Michael A. Riley, Diane E. Watson.
ISBN
9781620061817 (pbk.)
1620061813 (pbk.)
Author
Berger-Knorr, Lawrence,
Edition
2nd Sunbury Press ed.
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, PA
Publisher
Sunbury Press,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
312 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Notes
Rev ed. of: General John Fulton Reynolds / compiled by Lawrence Knorr. Camp Hill, PA : Sunbury Press, c2010.
Includes: Kinship of John Fulton Reynolds (p. 250-291).
Genealogy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
pt. 1. For God's sake forward! / by Michael A. Riley -- pt. 2. Reynolds, the last six miles / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 3. Reynolds, his own words before Gettysburg / by Diane E. Watson -- pt. 4. The relations of John Fulton Reynolds / by Lawrence Knorr.
Subjects
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863.
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863
Reynolds, John Fulton, - 1820-1863 - Family.
Reynolds family.
United States. - Army - Biography.
United States. - Army.
Generals - United States - Biography.
Families.
Generals.
Military campaigns.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Campaigns.
United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 - Personal narratives.
United States.
Personal narratives.
Records and correspondence.
Additional Author
Riley, Michael A.
Watson, Diane E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.5 R462k
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