The Bucktail Brothers

Author : William P. Robertson
Publisher : Infinity Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780741474971
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bucktail Brothers written by William P. Robertson and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry and Willie Cole were lucky to have survived the bloody Battle of Gettysburg. Little did the brothers know that the worst was yet to come! Sent to defend the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, the regiment's depleted ranks were filled with draftees of questionable bravery. This left a small core of battle-tested veterans to lead the 149th in the gruesome Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House Campaigns. Equally brutal were the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Siege of Petersburg. Add a tour of duty guarding the infamous Elmira Prison Camp, and the Bucktails visited every circle of Civil War hell.

Author : William P. Robertson
Publisher : Infinity Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780741467300
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bucktail Brothers of the Fighting 149th written by William P. Robertson and published by Infinity Pub. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lieutenant Colonel Walton Dwight inherited the difficult task of whipping the green 149th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry into battle shape before the summer campaign of 1863.

Author : Steven Kirk
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1304143538
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Union of Brothers: Life as a Bucktail written by Steven Kirk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firman Kirk, a young lumberman from Pennsylvania, leaves the relative safety of his father's business to join the Union Army and participate in the greatest conflict this country has known. Before he departs, he meets a young woman with whom he starts an intense correspondence that sees him through the darkest days of the war and gives him hope in distant battlefields like Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. Experience what it was like as he recovers from a wound and endures extreme hardship as a Prisoner of War at the notorious Andersonville prison. Share in his triumph as he helps to dedicate a monument to those that served some fifty years after the close of that chapter in American history

Author : James Kirke Paulding
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742534018
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lion of the West and the Bucktails written by James Kirke Paulding and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bucktails turns British disdain for their crude, uncivilized former colonists against the effete representatives of the Old Order. The Lion of the West, written more than a decade and a half later, not only scored a great popular success on both sides of the Atlantic but also supplied a template for the conventional portrait of the Westerner and for the humor of the Old South West.

Author : James Kirke PAULDING (and PAULDING (William Irving))
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Comedies: ... Contents: The Bucktails, or Americans in England; The Noble Exile; Madmen all, or the Cure of Love; Antipathies, or the Enthusiasts by the Ears written by James Kirke PAULDING (and PAULDING (William Irving)) and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Andrew Schroeder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennsylvania Bucktails written by Patrick Andrew Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles E. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738555232
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along the Bucktail Highway written by Charles E. Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bucktail Highway, Pennsylvania Route 120, traverses over 100 miles of the commonwealth's historic northern tier, linking Ridgway in the west with Lock Haven in the east. The Bucktail Highway crosses the eastern continental divide east of St. Marys and closely follows the picturesque, deep valleys carved by Sinnemahoning Creek and the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Originally a Native American path and later a road that carried settlers west beyond the Allegheny Front, today's Bucktail Highway is a centerpiece of the Pennsylvania Wilds, a public-private initiative to promote and conserve the unique natural and historic resources of the region. Along the Bucktail Highway showcases over 200 vintage postcards profiling the cultural and natural history of the towns, forests, and waters linked by this scenic route from its beginnings as a westward trail, its growth as a commercial and industrial corridor in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and its recent emergence as a premier Pennsylvania scenic byway.

Author : Robert Goldthwaite Carter
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806131856
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Brothers in Blue, Or, Sunshine and Shadows of the War of the Rebellion written by Robert Goldthwaite Carter and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters, collected and transcribed by Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter in the 1870s, are among the finest primary sources on the daily life of the Union soldier in the Civil War. Robert and his three brothers all saw action with the Army of the Potomac under its various commanders, Generals McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, and Grant. At times in pairs but often in neighboring units, they fought on the battlefields of Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Petersburg.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706344
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founding Fish written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-09-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John McPhee's twenty-sixth book is a braid of personal history, natural history, and American history, in descending order of volume. Each spring, American shad-Alosa sapidissima-leave the ocean in hundreds of thousands and run heroic distances upriver to spawn. McPhee--a shad fisherman himself--recounts the shad's cameo role in the lives of George Washington and Henry David Thoreau. He fishes with and visits the laboratories of famous ichthyologists; he takes instruction in the making of shad darts from a master of the art; and he cooks shad in a variety of ways, delectably explained at the end of the book. Mostly, though, he goes fishing for shad in various North American rivers, and he "fishes the same way he writes books, avidly and intensely. He wants to know everything about the fish he's after--its history, its habits, its place in the cosmos" (Bill Pride, The Denver Post). His adventures in pursuit of shad occasion the kind of writing--expert and ardent--at which he has no equal.

Author : P J Piccirillo
Publisher : Brown Posey Press
ISBN 13 : 9781620061695
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indigo Scarf written by P J Piccirillo and published by Brown Posey Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indigo Scarf chronicles the crossing lives of escaped slaves Jedediah James and George Sharpe as they flee with their white wives into the wilderness of Pennsylvania's Sinnemahone country, on the upper reaches of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, during the frontier decades after Pennsylvania's last Indian purchase. The novel opens, however, in 1882 in Washington's Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station. Narrator Anna Maria Sharpe is departing for the backwoods of north-central Pennsylvania, which she fled in her teens doubtful of her identity. She encounters Benjamin James, now a drifting, alcoholic longshoreman, who'd been implicated in the murder of his brother during Anna Maria's childhood. Benjamin decides to join her on the journey. Along the way, we follow the tale of the founders of their sordid hideaway settlement: his father, the infamous ex-slave Jedediah James; George Sharpe, a former indentured grist-miller whom Anna Maria believes was her grandfather; and the white women they had escaped with to the wild Sinnemahone country, Sarah James and Rosanna Sharpe. Through the story, Anna Maria learns that the man Benjamin had been accused of murdering had been her father, and the murderer, her half-brother. Benjamin's account of the life of Jedediah James reveals a fatal obsession with ownership driving this freed slave toward his reckoning. Hostilities build to a head between James and his wife's father-the august revolutionary war veteran Samson Starret-as well as Sarah's ex-suitor, Williamsport's Thomas Tillman, a man fixated on this woman whom an ex-slave stole from him on the eve of their arranged marriage. The scenes of The Indigo Scarf take the reader from a plantation in Virginia's tidewater region to the tragic end of a whiskey and timber-pirating operation on the Susquehanna's un-peopled and feral West Branch during the frontier decades after Pennsylvania's last Indian purchase.