Download or read book Four Brothers in Blue Abridged Annotated written by Robert Carter and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Among this select corpus of lasting [Civil War] sources Robert Goldthwaite Carter's Four Brothers in Blue ranks right at the top...alongside Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's The Passing of the Armies, Frank Haskell's The Battle of Gettysburg, and Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs."--historian Frank Vandiver, former president of Texas A&M University, the University of North Texas, and former acting president of Rice University. One of the most extraordinary chronicles by a family of soldiers in the American Civil War, Four Brothers in Blue draws upon the letters of the Carter brothers, who fought from beginning to end for the Union cause. At Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the Overland Campaign, the boys reveal what life was really like for those in the Union blue. Suffering hunger, punishing extremes of cold and heat, the death of beloved comrades, illness, the horror and confusion of combat, they persevered through all four years of bloody fighting. Everything about these letters carry the ring of truth. The excitement but horror of battle, fear, the frustrations and humor of camp life, the exhaustion of endless marching, and the pain of family separation, all combine to bring the period to life. Educated and articulate, the Carter brothers shared their opinions on Lincoln, McClellan, Meade, Grant, and other prominent men. They discussed politics and battle tactics, kept up with the news in the papers, and did all they could to support each other when despair and loneliness overtook one or the other. A close family, the affectionate ties between them come through in their letters to each other and to their parents. The youngest son, Robert, was only sixteen when he enlisted, later described by a contemporary as "strong as a bull and as brave as a lion." He compiled this book in 1913. This edition contains information and annotations about the period and participants that appear in no previous editions. No study of the Civil War is complete without Four Brothers in Blue.
Download or read book The Boys in White Abridged Annotated written by Julia S. Wheelock and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered one of the lesser known heroes of the Civil War, Julia Susan Wheelock's diary is a searing, honest, compassionate look at America's great disaster. Traveling to the south when notified of her brother's injury in battle, she arrived too late to care for him. But she stayed to nurse thousands more. She met Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Clara Barton and others of note during the war. She wrote letters for and held the hands of dying young men. She reminds us that soldiers are not the only ones who suffer in war. Julia was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame in October, 2002 Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers, tablets, and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Download or read book Recollections of Full Years Abridged Annotated written by Helen Herron Taft and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 1917-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As ambitious as her husband, William Howard Taft, Helen Herron may be the most underrated of all our First Ladies. She encouraged Taft in all his political accomplishments and he may not have become president without her. He preferred the judiciary and eventually became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Helen (Nellie) Taft was the first wife of a president to ride down Pennsylvania Avenue with her husband on inauguration day and the only woman who was wife of both a president and a chief justice. She is best known for working with the wife of the Japanese Ambassador to import and plant more than 3,000 cherry trees around the Washington Tidal Basin. Witty, intelligent, open-minded, and curious about the world, she is even today beloved in the Philippines, where her husband served as head of the civil government in 1900. She and her husband courted criticism for including Filipinos in social affairs. In this volume, she recounts her full life as partner to U.S. President William Howard Taft.
Download or read book Glimpses of Fifty Years Abridged Annotated written by Frances E. Willard and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 1889-01-01 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Woman, like man, should be freely permitted to do whatever she can do well." So said Frances E. Willard, who lived her life in the firm belief of this principle and who was instrumental in the passage of two amendments to the U.S. Constitution. A passionate advocate for women's rights, prohibition, and underprivileged people, she was devoted to making federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions, the eight-hour work day, work relief for the poor, municipal sanitation and boards of health, national transportation, anti-rape laws, and protections against child abuse a reality. This long-forgotten and out-of-print book is available for the first time for e-readers. In Willard's own words she describes her life as an educator, temperance reformer, and suffragist. She was an educator and later president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union She traveled extensively and even climbed the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Her sexual orientation is still debated today but she states in this volume: "The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of 'two hearts in counsel,' both of which are feminine." She had many passionate attachments to other women and she discusses this in her book. Willard was the first woman whose statue was included in the Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol building. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.
Download or read book An Artilleryman s Civil War Diary Abridged Annotated written by Jenkin Lloyd Jones and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great anxiety is expressed by all to reach home by the Fourth of July, which at present looks very probable. But, dear Journal, I cannot write, I feel too good." Jenk Jones would make it home on the 3rd of July, 1865. After three long years away from home with the 6th Wisconsin Artillery Battery, his reunion with family was, to him, indescribably joyful. Much had changed but the bonds remained the same. Along the way he'd seen horror and bloodshed, heartbreak, lost friends, and final victory. He was at Vicksburg and other major battles and kept "Mr. Journal" throughout, with the exception of his time in quarantine for smallpox. He recorded the ecstasy of news that Richmond had fallen, followed by Lee's surrender soon after. He writes of the sorrow he and his comrades felt at the news of Lincoln's assassination and how they all felt they'd lost a family member. Frontline diaries of the Civil War bring an immediacy to a long-ago event and connect us to these everyday men and women who lived it. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.
Download or read book The Annotated Marx Brothers written by Matthew Coniam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever watched a Marx Brothers film and wondered what "habeas Irish rose" is? What is the trial of Mary Dugan with sound? What is a college widow? When exactly did Don Ameche invent the telephone? Their films are full of such in-jokes and obscure theatrical, literary and topical references that can baffle modern audiences. In this viewer's guide to the Marx Brothers you will find the answer to such mysteries, along with an exhaustive compilation of background information, obscure trivia and even the occasional busted myth. Each of the Marx Brothers' 13 films is covered by a running commentary, with points in the film discussed as they appear. Each reference is listed by its running time, with time code given for both PAL and NTSC DVD. An introduction for neophytes and a resource for fanatics, this book is a travel guide to the rambling landscape of these remarkable comedies.
Download or read book Gathering Blue written by Lois Lowry and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2000-09-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second book in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet, which began with the bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning The Giver. Left orphaned and physically flawed in a civilization that shuns and discards the weak, Kira faces a frighteningly uncertain future. Her neighbors are hostile, and no one but a small boy offers to help. When she is summoned to judgment by The Council of Guardians, Kira prepares to fight for her life. But the Council, to her surprise, has plans for her. Blessed with an almost magical talent that keeps her alive, the young girl faces new responsibilities and a set of mysteries deep within the only world she has ever known. On her quest for truth, Kira discovers things that will change her life and world forever. A compelling examination of a future society, Gathering Blue challenges readers to think about community, creativity, and the values that they have learned to accept. Once again Lois Lowry brings readers on a provocative journey that inspires contemplation long after the last page is turned. “This extraordinary novel is remarkable for its fully realized characters, gripping plot, and Lowry’s singular vision of a future.” —VOYA The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. Don't miss the powerful companion novels in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
Download or read book Dreaming in Cuban written by Cristina García and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post
Download or read book Annotations On the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses the Psalms of David and the Song of Solomon with a Memoir of the Author written by Henry Ainsworth and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Download or read book The Annotated Brothers Grimm written by Jacob Grimm and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 40 stories in new translations by Tatar this celebration of the richness and dramatic power of the legendary fables also features 150 illustrations, many of them in color, by legendary painters.
Download or read book The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
Download or read book Anthology of Classic Short Stories Vol 4 Mystery and Adventure Illustrated written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the best mystery and adventure short stories. Be it cozy, historical, detective or murder mystery stories; our collection includes them all: The Red-Headed League by Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle The Arrow of Heaven by G. K. Chesterton The Sign of the Broken Sword by G. K. Chesterton The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe The Master of Mystery by Jack London The Problem of Cell 13 by Jacques Futrelle The Three Strangers by Thomas Hardy The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
Download or read book Island of the Blue Dolphins written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1960 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Download or read book Annotations Upon the Holy Bible written by Matthew Poole and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha written by Michael David Coogan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 2440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Oxford Annotated Bible offers a vast range of information, including extensive notes by experts in their fields; in-text maps, charts, and diagrams; supplementary essays on translation, biblical interpretation, cultural and historical background, and other general topics. Extensively revised, the Annotated Fourth Edition adds to the established reputation of this essential biblical studies resource. This timely edition maintains and extends the excellence the Annotated's users have come to expect, bringing still more insights, information, and perspectives to bear upon the understanding of the biblical text.
Download or read book Index digest analysis of Decisions Under the Interstate Commerce Commission Act written by United States. Interstate Commerce Commission and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
