Soldier Of The Leaf

Author : Reid Mitchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195096436
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vacant Chair written by Reid Mitchell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an insightful, intimate look at the links between the Civil War soldier and his home and family, Mitchell draws on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of common soldiers to show how mid-19th-century ideas shaped the Union soldier's approach to everything from military discipline to battlefield bravery. Halftone illustrations.

Author : Marvin E. Brown
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 9781477260890
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier of the Leaf written by Marvin E. Brown and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soldier of the Leaf chronicles the life of Marvin Brown from early childhood through his career with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. His impressions as a child of the south in the mid 1940s and 1950s provide glimpses of the struggles of poor and middle class blacks in Cairo and Savannah, Georgia. At age 14 he and two friends hitchhiked from Savannah, Georgia to New York City. His vivid and dramatic account of this dangerous journey is both hilarious and informative. His naivety, good luck and strength of character helped him meet and form a lasting bond with a family that embraced him as their own. He struggles to find the right job in New York City and by happenstance he gets a job as a skate guard with the Wollman Rink in Central Park, and thats when his lifes story really begins. We follow Marvin through learning the ropes as a skate guard, becoming a supervisor and then a principal supervisor. He shares 20 years of rich stories about the staff, processing the ice, faulty equipment, New York City bureaucrats and the patrons of the rink. He also takes us on an excursion to Sweden and Finland and on his return to New York he is able to parlay his experience and great work ethic into a senior position, Service and Maintenance Supervisor for 75 swimming pools in New York City. He recounts the trials and tribulations in managing incompetent staff, structural problems with filter plants and pools and handling dangerous chemicals. Marvin provides an interesting and humorous journey into the career of an exceptional New York City civil servant.

Author : George Gilbert Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaves from a Soldier's Diary written by George Gilbert Smith and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reid Mitchell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199923558
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vacant Chair written by Reid Mitchell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, the Northern soldier in the Civil War fought as if he had never left home. On campsites and battlefields, the Union volunteer adapted to military life with attitudes shaped by networks of family relationships, in units of men from the same hometown. Understanding these links between the homes the troops left behind and the war they had to fight, writes Reid Mitchell, offers critical insight into how they thought, fought, and persevered through four bloody years of combat. In The Vacant Chair, Mitchell draws on the letters, diaries, and memoirs of common soldiers to show how mid-nineteenth-century ideas and images of the home and family shaped the union soldier's approach to everything from military discipline to battlefield bravery. For hundreds of thousands of "boys," as they called themselves, the Union army was an extension of their home and childhood experiences. Many experienced the war as a coming-of-age rite, a test of such manly virtues as self-control, endurance, and courage. They served in companies recruited from the same communities, and they wrote letters reporting on each other's performance--conscious that their own behavior in the army would affect their reputations back home. So, too, were they deeply affected by letters from their families, as wives and mothers complained of suffering or demanded greater valor. Mitchell also shows how this hometown basis for volunteer units eroded respect for military rank, as men served with officers they saw as equals: "Lieut Col Dewey introduced Hugh T Reid," one sergeant wrote dryly, "by saying, 'Boys, behold your colonel,' and webeheldhim." In return, officers usually adopted paternalist attitudes toward their "boys"--especially in the case of white officers commanding black soldiers. Mitchell goes on to look at the role of women in the soldiers' experiences, from the feminine center of their own households to their hatred of Confederate women as "she-devils." The intimate relations and inner life of the Union soldier, the author writes, tell us much about how and why he kept fighting through four bloody years--and why demoralization struck the Confederate soldier as the war penetrated the South, threatening his home and family while he was at the front. "The Northern soldier did not simply experience the war as a husband, son, father, or brother--he fought that way as well," he writes. "That was part of his strength. The Confederate soldier fought the war the same way, and, in the end, that proved part of his weakness." The Vacant Chair uncovers this critical chapter in the Civil War experience, showing how the Union soldier saw--and won--our most costly conflict.

Author : George Gilbert Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leaves from a Soldier's Diary written by George Gilbert Smith and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.6O/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier's Manual written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Department of the Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Soldier's Manual MOS 95B Military Police, Skill Level 1 written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Jocelyn Jocelyn (Viscount)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Months with the Chinese Expedition, Or, Leaves from a Soldier's Note-book written by Robert Jocelyn Jocelyn (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Jocelyn Jocelyn (Viscount)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Months with the Chinese Expedition: or, Leaves from a Soldier's Notebook. [With plates.] written by Robert Jocelyn Jocelyn (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Gills
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811765644
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlisted Soldier's Guide written by Thomas Gills and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated edition of the essential guide for enlisted soldiers in the U.S. Army This military reference guide, completely revised for the current army, is targeted at young men and women who have enlisted in the U.S. Army or are thinking about doing so. The book is a must-have resource for a successful career or tour as an American soldier and covers duties and responsibilities, promotion and career opportunities, real-world issues, customs and traditions, uniforms and insignia, pay and benefits, physical fitness, and personal and family matters.