Old Soldiers Saloons And Community

Author : Tim Receveur
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781791561444
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Soldiers, Saloons, and Community written by Tim Receveur and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoebus is a neighborhood in Hampton, Virginia with an oversized share of history. It was home to the Kecoughtan Indians when the first English explorers landed on its shores on the way to Jamestown in 1607 and Phoebus would serve as the first Union Army camp in Virginia in the early days of the Civil War. Through the years, the town would host railroads, streetcars, U.S. Presidents, and saloons "on every street corner and two in between."This book chronicles the unique story of Phoebus including its legendary drinking, fighting, and rioting at the end of the 19th century, its home to the first community for freed slaves in the South, the election of two of the earliest African-American officials in the state of Virginia in 1901, and the establishment of much of the community as a historic district by the National Park Service in 2006. Old Soldiers, Saloons, and Community Spirit also highlights the neighborhood's special 125-year relationship with its fire department and the economic revitalization currently underway, as a new wave of local businesses usher in the first great era of Phoebus in the 21st century.

Author : Don Chaput
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574418181
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earps Invade Southern California written by Don Chaput and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most readers of the Wild West know Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp for the famous shootout on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. But few know the later years of the close-knit Earp family, which revolved around patriarch Nicholas Earp, and their last push at a major monetary coup in Los Angeles. By 1900 a newly established Old Soldiers’ Home was in place at Sawtelle (between Santa Monica and Los Angeles), with thousands of veterans earning monthly pensions, but in an environment where alcohol was prohibited. Enter the Earps and their “blind pig” (illicit alcohol sales) scheme. Two of the Earps, Nicholas and son Newton, were enrolled in the Soldiers’ Home, and Newton’s far more famous half-brothers Wyatt and Virgil showed up from time to time, but the star of the operation was older brother James. Booze would flow, the pension money would be “dispersed about,” and jails were sometimes filled, as the Earps and several other men on the make competed for the veterans’ money. We are also reintroduced to Old West figures such as “Gunfighter Surgeon” Dr. George Goodfellow, “Silver Tongued Orator” Thomas Fitch, millionaire George Hearst, detective J.V. Brighton, Lucky Baldwin, and many other well-known westerners who touched the lives of the Earps.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1206 pages
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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 1206 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)

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temporary Home for Ex-volunteer Union Soldiers and Sailors in the District of Columbia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Military Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
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Download or read book Sale of Intoxicating Liquors written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Baulsir
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738511443
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book The Jewish Communities of Greater Stamford written by Linda Baulsir and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a broad historical view of the Jewish people of Stamford, Darien, Greenwich, and New Canaan, Connecticut, and Pound Ridge, New York. It traces the historical migration through the archived images preserved by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Stamford.

Author : Catherine Holder Spude
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska: The Mascot Sallon written by Catherine Holder Spude and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Conference of Social Work (U.S.). Annual Session
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the National Conference of Social Work at the ... Annual Session Held in ... written by National Conference of Social Work (U.S.). Annual Session and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : National Conference on Social Welfare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
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Download or read book The Social Welfare Forum written by National Conference on Social Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Marten
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807877689
Total Pages : 352 pages
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Download or read book Sing Not War written by James Marten and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by nonveterans. Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time reintegrating into their communities and returning to their civilian lives than has been previously understood. Although Civil War veterans were generally well taken care of during the Gilded Age, Marten argues that veterans lost control of their legacies, becoming best remembered as others wanted to remember them--for their service in the war and their postwar political activities. Marten finds that while southern veterans were venerated for their service to the Confederacy, Union veterans often encountered resentment and even outright hostility as they aged and made greater demands on the public purse. Drawing on letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, newspapers, and other sources, Sing Not War illustrates that during the Gilded Age "veteran" conjured up several conflicting images and invoked contradicting reactions. Deeply researched and vividly narrated, Marten's book counters the romanticized vision of the lives of Civil War veterans, bringing forth new information about how white veterans were treated and how they lived out their lives.