Abstracts of Carroll County newspapers, 1831-1846 : items taken from the newspapers of the Carrolltonian and Baltimore & Frederick advertiser, the Democrat & Carroll County republican (Westminster), and the Regulator & Taneytown herald
v. 1. Southeast -- v. 2. East-central -- v. 3. Southwest -- v. 4. Northeast -- v. 5, pt. 1 North-central -- v. 5, pt. 2 North-central -- v. 6 West-central.
Includes insert map "The Civil War in Carroll County Maryland, the Gettsyburg Campaign".
Contents
North and South -- The first invasion, 1862 -- The cavalry battle, June 29, 1863 -- After the battle -- Troops at Westminster, 1863 -- Transportation, supply and communications -- Sending the news -- Troop movements in 1863 -- Plans for a battle along Pipe Creek -- North and South at Union Mills -- The last invasion, 1864 -- Carroll County towns in the Civil War.
Summary
"These are the accounts of citizens and soldiers who described Civil War events in Carroll County, Md., as they saw them during the war years a century ago. They are eye-witness accounts for the most part, by people who were there at the time and who were the very first to begin recording the history of the war. No other event in American history produced so much documentary material from so many individual sources as did the Civil War. The tremendous emotional impact of this gigantic conflict between Americans, who had lived in a state of comparatively peaceful and romantic isolation from anything so incomprehensible as an ideological war, inspired tens of thousands of both literate and illiterate soldiers and civilians to record the most minute details of their daily experiences, as though they thought posterity would never believe that mankind could produce such vast and terrible chaos"--Preface.
Vol. 2-3 have imprint: Westminster, Md. : Family Line Publications.
Maps on lining papers.
LCHS has vols. 1 and 2.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
v. 1. Some early settlers of Frederick and Carroll Counties, MD and Adams County County, PA, also descendants c. 1725-1985 -- v. 2. Some settlers of western Maryland and adjacent Pennsylvania, and their descendants, 1725-1988 -- v. 3. Additions and corrections to the History of Frederick County, Maryland by T.J.C. Williams and Folger McKinsey, 1910.
