Long Island And The Civil War Queens Nassau And Suffolk Counties During The War Between The States

Author : Harrison Hunt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852932
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Island and the Civil War written by Harrison Hunt and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although no battles were fought on Long Island, the Civil War deeply affected all of its residents. More than three thousand men--white and black--from current-day Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties answered the call to preserve the Union. While Confederate ships lurked within eight miles of Montauk Point, camps in Mineola and Willets Point trained regiments. Local women raised thousands of dollars for Union hospitals, and Long Island companies manufactured uniforms, drums and medicines for the army. At the same time, a little-remembered draft riot occurred in Jamaica in 1863. Local authors Harrison Hunt and Bill Bleyer explore this fascinating story, from the 1860 presidential campaign that polarized the region to the wartime experiences of Long Islanders on the battlefield and at home.

Author : Harrison Hunt & Bill Bleyer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1626197717
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Island and the Civil War: Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties During the War Between the States written by Harrison Hunt & Bill Bleyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although no battles were fought on Long Island, the Civil War deeply affected all of its residents. More than three thousand men-white and black-from current-day Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties answered the call to preserve the Union. While Confederate ships lurked within eight miles of Montauk Point, camps in Mincola and Willets Point trained regiments. Local women raised thousands of dollars for Union hospitals, and Long Island companies manufactured uniforms, drums and medicines for the army. At the same time, a little-remembered draft riot occurred in Jamaica in 18G3. Local authors Harrison Hunt and Bill Bleyer explore this fascinating story, from the 1860 presidential campaign that polarized the region to the wartime experiences of Long Islanders on the battlefield and at home. Book jacket.

Author : Bill Bleyer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467118095
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House written by Bill Bleyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No house better reflects the personality and interests of its owner than Theodore Roosevelt's cherished Sagamore Hill. After Roosevelt returned to Oyster Bay following the death of both his beloved wife and mother, he and his second wife, Edith, made the house a home for their growing and rambunctious family. What began as the perfect getaway from unhealthy New York City summers in his grandfather's day became the Summer White House during Roosevelt's presidency. He hosted political guests like Henry Cabot Lodge and cultural luminaries like novelist Edith Wharton. Roosevelt spent his final years happily at Sagamore Hill, and after his death in 1919, the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the National Park Service preserved the house. With previously unpublished photographs and a detailed guide to the house and grounds, historian Bill Bleyer recounts bygone days at Roosevelt's haven.

Author : Barbara Weisberg
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393531538
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York written by Barbara Weisberg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposing upper-crust New York society and its secrets. What could possibly go wrong in a wealthy matriarch’s country home when her dilettante son, his restless wife, and his widowed brother live there together? Strong Passions, rooted in the beguiling times of Edith Wharton’s “old New York,” recounts the true story of a tumultuous marriage. In 1862, Mary Strong stunned her husband, Peter, by confessing to a two-year affair with his brother. Peter sued Mary for divorce for adultery—the only grounds in New York—but not before she accused him of forcing her into an abortion and having his own affair with the abortionist. She then kidnapped their young daughter and disappeared. The divorce trial Strong v. Strong riveted the nation during the final throes and aftermath of the Civil War, offering a shocking glimpse into the private world of New York’s powerful and privileged elite. Barbara Weisberg presents the chaotic courtroom and panoply of witnesses—governess, housekeeper, private detective, sisters-in-law, and many others—who provided contradictory and often salacious testimony. She then asks us to be the jury, deciding each spouse’s guilt and the possibility of a just resolution. Social history at its most intimate, Strong Passions charts a trial’s twists and turns to portray a family and country in turmoil as they faced conflicts over women’s changing roles, male custody of children, and men’s power—financial and otherwise—over wives.

Author : Ron Seifried
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439669554
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Island Freemasons written by Ron Seifried and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Masonic lodge in what is today Nassau and Suffolk Counties was constituted in 1793. For over 200 years, more than 70 lodges were founded and flourished in various locations from Amagansett to Great Neck. For the first time, some of the secrets of the Masonic fraternity are revealed in this book. Recovered from dusty lodge attics and closets, this selection of long-forgotten photographs and artifacts gives the readers a brief glimpse of what was taking place behind the closed doors of their local lodge. Long Island was the Masonic home of Theodore Roosevelt of Oyster Bay and, 30 years later, was honored by a visit to the Huntington Masonic lodge by his fifth cousin and fellow Mason Franklin D. Roosevelt. Masons continue to support the community through charitable endeavors, including the Masonic Medical Research Institute, Masonic Safety Identification Programs, Shriners Hospitals, and many more.

Author : Henry Isham Hazelton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, Counties of Nassau and Suffolk, Long Island, New York, 1609-1924 written by Henry Isham Hazelton and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1184 pages
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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
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Download or read book Nelson's Encyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isaac Landman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
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Download or read book The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia ... written by Isaac Landman and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York (State). Commission for the Preparation of an Index to the Session Laws and Statutes of the State
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1346 pages
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Download or read book Heads and Subheads for Index to New York Statutes written by New York (State). Commission for the Preparation of an Index to the Session Laws and Statutes of the State and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: