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Book Avery s Battlefield

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deanna K. Klingel
  • Publisher : Journeyforth
  • Release : 2011-01
  • ISBN : 9781606821718
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Avery s Battlefield written by Deanna K. Klingel and published by Journeyforth. This book was released on 2011-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old Quaker Avery Bennett has learned much from his mother about treating wounds and illnesses, and when he and his dog Gunner head into the Civil War battlefields in search of his Uncle Fredric in 1862, he finds many who need his help.

Book Confederate Veteran

Download or read book Confederate Veteran written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book One Blood

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  • Author : Spencie Love
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2000-11-09
  • ISBN : 0807863068
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book One Blood written by Spencie Love and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death. On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who helped create the first American Red Cross blood bank had bled to death because a whites-only hospital refused to treat him. Drew was in fact treated in the emergency room of the small, segregated Alamance General Hospital. Two white surgeons worked hard to save him, but he died after about an hour. In her compelling chronicle of Drew's life and death, Spencie Love shows that in a generic sense, the Drew legend is true: throughout the segregated era, African Americans were turned away at hospital doors, either because the hospitals were whites-only or because the 'black beds' were full. Love describes the fate of a young black World War II veteran who died after being turned away from Duke Hospital following an auto accident that occurred in the same year and the same county as Drew's. African Americans are shown to have figuratively 'bled to death' at white hands from the time they were first brought to this country as slaves. By preserving their own stories, Love says, they have proven the enduring value of oral history. General Interest/Race Relations

Book The 21st North Carolina Infantry

Download or read book The 21st North Carolina Infantry written by Lee W. Sherrill, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 21st North Carolina Troops (11th North Carolina Volunteers) was one of only two Tar Heel Confederate regiments that in 1865 could boast "From Manassas to Appomattox." The 21st was the only North Carolina regiment with Stonewall Jackson during his 1862 Valley Campaign and remained with the same division throughout the war. It participated in every major battle fought by the Army of Northern Virginia except the 1864 Overland Campaign, when General Lee sent it to fight its own intense battles near New Bern and Plymouth. This book is written from the perspective of the 1,942 men who served in the regiment and is filled with anecdotal material gleaned from more than 700 letters and memoirs. In several cases it sheds new light on accepted but often incorrect interpretations of events. Names such as Lee, Jackson, Hoke, Trimble, Hill, Early, Ramseur and Gordon charge through the pages as the Carolina regiment gains a name for itself. Suffering a 50 percent casualty rate over the four years, only 67 of the 920 young men and boys who began the war surrendered to Grant at its end.

Book SUMMARY   Titan  The Life Of John D  Rockefeller  Sr By Ron Chernow

Download or read book SUMMARY Titan The Life Of John D Rockefeller Sr By Ron Chernow written by Shortcut Edition and published by Shortcut Edition. This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. As you read this summary, you will learn about the great moments in the life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839-1937) who, during his lifetime, was considered the richest man in the world. You will also learn : that some have attributed a French origin to the Rockefeller family; that Rockefeller was a determined opponent of trade unionism; that marriage to women from a higher social background was a tradition in the Rockefeller family; that Rockefeller was a Baptist, and a follower of strict Puritanism; that he often vacationed in Florida in the evenings of his life; that he was the founder of the world's largest company in terms of sales. Rockefeller has a bad reputation. Too rich, too powerful, too quickly reached the heights of fortune and power. In his lifetime he was one of the most hated men in the United States. His latest biographer, Ron Chernow, hesitated for a long time before devoting himself to yet another biography of one of the most famous Americans in the world. Before giving his approval to the publisher, he consulted hundreds of pages of interviews with Rockefeller in the huge mass of documents in the Rockefeller Archive Center, in order to be able to judge the complexity of the character on the spot. The bet was taken: his book reads like a novel, even if, we are forced to say, despite all his meritorious efforts, he does not manage to make his hero more sympathetic to us ... *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!

Book North   South

Download or read book North South written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170  c  of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 c of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by United States. Internal Revenue Service and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spirit of  76

Download or read book The Spirit of 76 written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Cleveland  Ohio  Biographical

Download or read book A History of Cleveland Ohio Biographical written by Samuel Peter Orth and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biographical

Download or read book Biographical written by Samuel Peter Orth and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Five Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory

Download or read book National Five Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 2610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book South Carolinians in the Battle of Gettysburg

Download or read book South Carolinians in the Battle of Gettysburg written by Derek Smith and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: July 1, 1863. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee advanced across the Pennsylvania countryside toward the small town of Gettysburg--less than 90 miles from Washington, D.C.--on a collision course with the Union Army of the Potomac. In Lee's ranks were 5,000 South Carolina troops destined to play critical roles in the three days of fighting ahead. From generals to privates, the Palmetto State soldiers were hurled into the Civil War's most famous battle--hundreds were killed, wounded or later suffered as prisoners of war. The life-and-death stories of these South Carolinians are here woven together here with official wartime reports, previously unpublished letters, newspaper accounts, diaries and the author's personal observations from walking the battlefield.

Book The Traitor   s Homecoming

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew E. Reardon
  • Publisher : Savas Beatie
  • Release : 2024-08-15
  • ISBN : 1611216990
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book The Traitor s Homecoming written by Matthew E. Reardon and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2024-08-15 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost everyone is familiar with the name of at least one Revolutionary War battle. Some, like Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, and Yorktown are household names. Others are less well known but readily recognized when mentioned. An engagement in Connecticut during the war’s seventh year, commanded by one of history’s most infamous military names, is not among them. Matthew E. Reardon has set out to rectify that oversight with The Traitor’s Homecoming: Benedict Arnold’s Raid on New London, Connecticut, September 4–13, 1781. By 1781, the war in North America had reached a stalemate. That changed during the summer when the combined Franco-American armies of Generals George Washington and Jean-Baptiste comte de Rochambeau deceived British General Sir Henry Clinton into believing they were about to lay siege to New York City. In fact, they were moving south toward Yorktown, Virginia, in a bid to trap Lord Cornwallis’s British army against the sea. Clinton fell for the deception and dispatched former American general Benedict Arnold to attack New London. Clinton hoped to destroy the privateers operating out of its harbor and derail militia reinforcements and supplies heading from Connecticut to the allied armies outside New York City. Situated in southeastern Connecticut, New London was the center of the state’s wartime naval activities. State and Continental naval vessels operated out of its harbor, which doubled as a haven for American privateers. Arnold landed on September 6 and, in a textbook operation, defeated local militia, took possession of the town, harbor, and forts, and set New London’s waterfront ablaze. But that is not how it is remembered. The Connecticut governor’s vicious propaganda campaign against the British and Arnold, who was already infamous for his treachery, created a narrative of partial truths and embellishments that persist to this day. As such, most of the attention remains on the bloody fighting and supposed “massacre” at Fort Griswold. There is much more to the story. The Traitor’s Homecoming uses dozens of newly discovered British and American primary sources to weave a balanced military study of an often forgotten and misunderstood campaign. Indeed, Reardon achieves a major reinterpretation of the battle while dismantling its myths. Thirteen original maps and numerous illustrations and modern photographs flesh out this provocative and groundbreaking study.

Book Avery s Crossroad

Download or read book Avery s Crossroad written by Deanna K. Klingel and published by Journeyforth. This book was released on 2011 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quaker Avery Bennett earns his degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1863, but questions whether he wants to practice medicine after the Civil War.