Letters Home Co A 24th Wisconsin Infantry

Author : Michael L. Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478179733
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters Home Co. a - 24th Wisconsin Infantry written by Michael L. Rice and published by . This book was released on 2012-07-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Letters Home" is a 196 page book which follows Company A - 24th Wisconsin Infantry through its many Civil war battles in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia, primarily using fourteen letters home from Eagle soldiers Pvt. Sidney P. Kline and Pvt. George M. Logan. The book contains images of each original letter, and there are very detailed accounts of Stones River and Chickamauga battles by the soldiers. Young Lieutenant Arthur MacArthur was a gangly teenager in 1862, but by 1863 was the hero of the Regiment as he successfully led this regiment in an assault up Missionary Ridge, bearing the flag in one hand and his pistol in the other. His son, WWII General Douglas MacArthur called him the greatest general in American history. See the war through the eyes of those who were there! It's not only an excellent history book, but is a source of inspiration for future generations.

Author : Guy C. Taylor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters Home to Sarah written by Guy C. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Forgotten for more than a century in an old cardboard box, these are the letters of Guy Carlton Taylor, a farmer who served in the Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War. From March 25, 1864 to July 9, 1865, Taylor wrote 165 letters home to his wife Sarah and their son Charley. The letters show... Taylor's transformation from a lonely and somewhat disgruntled infantryman to a thoughtful commentator on the greater ideals of the war." --Book jacket.

Author : William J. K. Beaudot
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811708944
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 24th Wisconsin Infantry in the Civil War written by William J. K. Beaudot and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Milwaukee County Historical Society's coveted Gambrinus Prize for the best book-length contribution to Milwaukee historiography in 2003 Profiles the courageous 24th Wisconsin Infantry and features the personal stories of members of the 24th, including Arthur McArthur, the father of Gen. Douglas MacArthur Utilizes hundreds of primary sources--letters, diaries, and contemporary newspaper articles Formed in the summer of 1862, the 24th Wisconsin Infantry participated in many major battles of the Western theater, earning a reputation as a brave, hard-fighting unit. Unlike other unit histories, this book makes no attempt, as the author freely admits, to provide "an objective history" of the regiment. Rather, the book digs deeper, following the personal stories of the soldiers themselves, providing hundreds of individual vignettes that, taken together, paint a vivid picture of the life of a Union soldier.

Author : John F. Brobst
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Well Mary written by John F. Brobst and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters from J.F. Brobst to Mary Englesby, Mar. 1863-June 1865. Bibliography: p. 157-158.

Author : Frederick Pettit
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infantryman Pettit written by Frederick Pettit and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporal Pettit's letters home not only describe combat from the enlisted perspective, but also describe garrison and field life in his intensely religious "roundhead" regiment, the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Author : Richard L. Hamilton
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781456460495
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiloh to Durham Station written by Richard L. Hamilton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shiloh to Durham Station, 18th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment: With Captain Robert S. McMichael's Civil War Letters begins in the early winter of 1861 in Bad Ax County, Wisconsin, and it ends in 1865 with the Grand March in Washington, D. C. after the surrender of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston at Durham Station, North Carolina. It is an historical account of the Civil War in the West, and a true personal reflection of the war as told by Robert S. McMichael. He was a young husband and father who never missed an opportunity to write home to his wife, Orla. Robert enlisted in the 18th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment on January 25, 1861. The regiment mustered into the United States service on March 15, 1862, and departed Camp Trowbridge at Milwaukee for Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee on March 30, 1862. Robert served in The Army of the Mississippi, re-enlisted in 1864, rose to captain of his Company C, participated in General William T. Sherman's march through Georgia and the Carolinas. He capped off his service at the Grand March in Washington, D. C., and was mustered out of service on July 18, 1865.

Author : Andrea R. Brucker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463405421
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters Home from the Brothertown "Boys" written by Andrea R. Brucker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the educated Brothertown Indian men who fought in the Civil War and wrote letters home telling of this horrible war. American Indians, who despite the guarantees from the United States, found that same government continually stripping them of their lands. And, still, they rushed to volunteer their services to defend the Union. The Brothertown Indian Nation is unique from many other tribes in that they are an amalgamated group. They are made up of remnants of the coastal tribes who made the first contact with the whites. As a result of the Great Awakening, a religious movement in New England during the 1740s, many Indian people in southern New England converted to Christianity, including the Mohegan, Pequot, Narragansett, Montauk, Tunxis, and Niantic. As these people tried to live Christian lives in New England, they found it difficult to resist the pressures from whites around them who encouraged them to abuse alcohol, give up farming and sell their lands. By the 1700s, the tribes were poverty stricken, decimated by wars and disease. A small group of young Natives, educated at Eleazer Wheelocks Indian Charity School in Lebanon, Connecticut, became the impetus for forming a new community where they might live amicably together. On November 7, 1784 the band of Christian New England Indians settled on lands given to them by the Oneida Nation in New York and called their Town by the Name of Brotherton, in Indian Eeyam qittoowauconnuck.

Author : Warden A. Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Letters of Warden A. Wood, Company D, 37th Wisconsin Infantry written by Warden A. Wood and published by . This book was released on 2007* with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Guy C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299291235
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters Home to Sarah written by Guy C. Taylor and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgotten for more than a century in an old cardboard box, these are the letters of Guy Carlton Taylor, a farmer who served in the Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War. From March 23, 1864, to July 14, 1865, Taylor wrote 165 letters home to his wife Sarah and their son Charley. From the initial mustering and training of his regiment at Camp Randall in Wisconsin, through the siege of Petersburg in Virginia, General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, and the postwar Grand Review of the Armies parade in Washington, D.C., Taylor conveys in vivid detail his own experiences and emotions and shows himself a keen observer of all that is passing around him. While at war, he contracts measles, pneumonia, and malaria, and he writes about the hospitals, treatments, and sanitary conditions that he and his comrades endured during the war. Amidst the descriptions of soldiering, Taylor’s letters to Sarah are threaded with the concerns of a young married couple separated by war but still coping together with childrearing and financial matters. The letters show, too, Taylor’s transformation from a lonely and somewhat disgruntled infantryman to a thoughtful commentator on the greater ideals of the war. This remarkable trove of letters, which had been left in the attic of Taylor’s former home in Cashton, Wisconsin, was discovered by local historian Kevin Alderson at a household auction. Recognizing them for the treasure they are, Alderson bought the letters and, aided by his wife Patsy, painstakingly transcribed the letters and researched Taylor’s story in Wisconsin and at historical sites of the Civil War. The Aldersons’ preface and notes are augmented by an introduction by Civil War historian Kathryn Shively Meier, and the book includes photographs, maps, and illustrations related to Guy Taylor’s life and letters.

Author : Charles Thomas Bowen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Friends at Home written by Charles Thomas Bowen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: