Download or read book Reminiscences of Peace and War written by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Peace and War written by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Peace and War It will be obvious to the reader that this book affects neither the "dignity of history" nor the authority of political instruction. The causes which precipitated the conflict between the sections and the momentous events which attended the struggle have been recounted by writers competent to the task. But descriptions of battles and civil convulsions do not exhibit the full condition of the South in the crisis. To complete the picture, social characteristics and incidents of private life are indispensable lineaments. It occurs to the author that a plain and unambitious narrative of her recollections of Washington society during the calm which preceded the storm, and of Virginia under the afflictions and sorrows of the fratricidal strife, will not be without interest in the retrospect of that memorable era. The present volume recalls that era in the aspect in which it appeared to a woman rather than as it appeared to a statesman or a philosopher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reminiscences of War and Peace written by Sara Agnes Sara Agnes Rice Pryor and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (1830 - 1912) was a writer who published two memoirs in the early twentieth century of the mesmerizing times in which she lived. The first few chapters contain Mrs. Pryor's recall of the years she spent in Washington society before the "Civil War." Her husband, Roger Atkinson Pryor (1828-1919) was an able lawyer who was appointed by President Franklin Pierce as a special United States Minister to Greece in 1854. In 1859, after Virginia Congressman William O. Goode died in office, Roger Pryor won his vacant seat in the United States Congress. Of these years, Mrs. Pryor describes the prominent politicians (and their wives) that she met in addition to many well-known foreign dignitaries. She remembers the Southern power presence of those halcyon days: "When the Marine band would play on the veranda of the White House," and the lavish White House parties with "ices in every form from a pair of turtle doves to a pillared temple." Students of fashion history and especially re-enactors will benefit from her careful descriptions of the attire of era, "Our white gloves were short and were finished at the wrist with a fall of lace three or four inches wide, and a band of ribbon and rosette," etc. Of the war privations she writes, "Pins became scarce. People walked about with downcast eyes; they were looking for pins! Thorns were gathered and dried to use as pins. Dentists' gold soon disappeared. The generation succeeding the war period had not good teeth. Anesthetics -- morphine, chloroform, opium--were contraband of war. This was our great grief. Our soldier boys, who had done nothing to bring the war upon the country, must suffer every pang that followed the disasters of battle." Mrs. Pryor's detailed memoirs of the war have been important sources for historians doing research on southern society during and after the Civil War. Incidentally, the author, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor, was one of the founders of the National Daughters of the Revolution.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Peace and War written by Roger A. Pryor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1904, these are the memoirs of Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, who was the wife of once Confederate General Roger Pryor. Includes her time in Washington during the 1850s and memories of the War Between the States. Includes an interesting look into everyday life off the battlefield in the Southern states.
Download or read book Chance and Design written by Alan Hodgkin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Hodgkin believes that - contrary to popular conviction - chance plays quite as large a role as design in scientific discovery. This engaging autobiography charts the balance of the two in his own life. Beginning starts with an account of his childhood in an extended Quaker family. Not a great success at school, he nevertheless won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge, and he writes informatively of the climate of university opinion in the thirties when he was an undergraduate and came to abandon the pacifist ideals of his upbringing. A chance observation on frog nerve led to a Trinity Fellowship and a year at the Rockefeller Institute in New York (where he met his future wife), to the Nobel Prize in 1963, and ultimately to the Presidency of the Royal Society. His experiments on nerve conduction seemed almost at the point of success when everything had to be abandoned on the outbreak of war in 1939, and for six years Hodgkin worked on the concept and design of airborne radar, described in the central section of the book as Flight Trials and Tribulations. The account of his return to civilian life and the resumption of experimentation includes two chapters of solid detail of Starting Again - for this is a book for any reader interested in the origin and development of a dedicated scientist.
Download or read book Peace War written by Robert Serber and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The memoir of a prominent member of the Manhattan Project, and an intimate friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer."--Jacket.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Peace and War written by Sara Agnes (Rice) Pryor and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Soldier s Reminiscences in Peace and War written by Richard W. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Peace and War Illustrated Edition written by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reminiscences of Peace and War is a book based on author's journals which is intended to contribute to public discourse about the Civil War. In this book Mrs. Pryor wrote about antebellum society but also defended the Confederacy, as did fellow writers Virginia Clay-Clopton and Louise Wigfall Wright; the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) recommended the works of these three for serious studies by other women.
Download or read book Reminiscences of War and Peace written by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Man of Peace Goes to War A Memoir written by Isaac Harold Storey and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Man of Peace Goes to War is just that: a compilation of the very stories Mr. Storey has carried with him for over seventy-five years, shared with thousands of people through writing and oral interviews, and repeated again to me. In order to help "fill in the gaps" between his stories, I have included sections of a piece titled The History of Company C, 10th Infantry U.S. Inf. Fifth Division, in the Battle of Europe. Lieutenant Robert Dunn worked closely with Mr. Storey and several other members of the company shortly after the war to compile and write The History of Company C. This piece tells the complete history of Mr. Storey's company during the war and gives a thorough overview of the locations and dates that correspond with Mr. Storey's retellings. The History of Company C was never published, and only used as a reference between the veterans of Company C after the war.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Peace and War Memoirs of a Southern Woman during the Civil War Illustrated Edition written by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "Reminiscences of Peace and War" is a book based on author's journals which is intended to contribute to public discourse about the Civil War. In this book Mrs. Pryor wrote about antebellum society but also defended the Confederacy, as did fellow writers Virginia Clay-Clopton and Louise Wigfall Wright; the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) recommended the works of these three for serious studies by other women.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Peace and War Classic Reprint written by Mrs. Roger A. Pryor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Peace and War Washington in the Fifties - Literary Society during Fillmore's Administration - John P. Kennedy, G. P. R. James, Mrs. Gales, and Mrs. Seaton - Anna Cora Mowatt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War written by Frank Alexander Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Soldier s Reminiscences in Peace and War written by Richard W. Johnson and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Worthy Fights written by Leon Panetta and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past fifty years. His first, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including a run as one of Congress's most powerful and respected members, lasted 35 years and culminated in his role as Clinton's budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then 'retired' to establish the Panetta Institute,to serve on the Iraq Study Group; and to protect the California coast. In 2009 he accepted what many said was a thankless task: returning to public office as the director of the CIA.
Download or read book And Still Peace Did Not Come written by Agnes Kamara-Umunna and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When bullets hit Agnes Kamara-Umunna's home in Monrovia, Liberia, she and her father hastily piled whatever they could carry into their car and drove toward the border, along with thousands of others. An army of children was approaching, under the leadership of Charles Taylor. It seemed like the end of the world. Slowly, they made their way to the safety of Sierra Leone. They were the lucky ones. After years of exile, with the fighting seemingly over, Agnes returned to Liberia--a country now devastated by years of civil war. Families have been torn apart, villages destroyed, and it seems as though no one has been spared. Reeling, and unsure of what to do in this place so different from the home of her memories, Agnes accepted a job at the local UN-run radio station. Their mission is peace and their method is reconciliation through understanding and communication. Soon, she came up with a daring plan: Find the former child soldiers, and record their stories. And so Agnes, then a 43-year-old single mother of four, headed out to the ghettos of Monrovia and befriended them, drinking Club Beer and smoking Dunhill cigarettes with them, earning their trust. One by one, they spoke on her program, Straight from the Heart, and slowly, it seemed like reconciliation and forgiveness might be possible. From Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first female president, to Butt Naked, a warlord whose horrific story is as unforgettable as his nickname--everyone has a story to tell. Victims and perpetrators. Boys and girls, mothers and fathers. Agnes comforts rape survivors, elicits testimonials from warlords, and is targeted with death threats--all live on the air. Set in a place where monkeys, not raccoons, are the scourge of homeowners; the trees have roots like elephant legs; and peacebuilding is happening from the ground-up. Harrowing, bleak, hopeful, humorous, and deeply moving--And Still Peace Did Not Come is not only Agnes's memoir: It is also her testimony to a nation's descent into the horrors of civil war, and its subsequent rise out of the ashes.
