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Download or read book Spencer Kellogg Brown His Life in Kansas and His Death as a Spy 1842 1863 as Disclosed in His Diary written by Spencer Kellogg 1842-1863 Brown and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Spencer Kellogg Brown His Life in Kansas and His Death as a Spy 1842 1863 written by Spencer Kellogg Brown and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Spencer Kellogg Brown His Life in Kansas and His Death as a Spy 1842 1863 As Disclosed in His Di written by Brown Spencer Kellogg and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book SPENCER KELLOGG BROWN HIS LIFE written by Spencer Kellogg 1842-1863 Brown and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spencer Kellogg Brown His Life in Kansas and His Death as a Spy 1842 1863 written by Brown Spencer Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Spencer Kellogg Brown His Life in Kansas and His Death as a Spy 1842 1863 as Disclosed in His Diary written by Spencer Kellogg Brown and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Spencer Kellogg Brown written by Spencer Kellogg Brown and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-10 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography is of double interest just now when the Louisiana Centenary Exhibition brings the early days of the occupation of Kansas before the public. Spencer Kellogg Brown was a neighbour of the famous John Brown whose “body lies mouldering in the grave.” He was hanged by the Confederates as a spy at the early age of twenty-one, having been taken prisoner a few days after his marriage. The simplicity of an innocent boy is oddly mingled with the grave dignity of a man tried as by fire, and the diary is so charming that few will lay it down until it is read to the end. —The Review of Reviews, Volume 29 S. K. Brown had the ill-fortune to be growing into manhood at the time when the slavery trouble in the States was coming to a head. It is a dismal story of lawlessness and cruelty that the biographer has to tell of these early days. In January, 1861, Spencer Kellogg—the name of Brown was dropped — enlisted in the Northern Army. Some nine months afterwards he transferred himself to the Navy, being one of the crew of the 'Essex,' a ferry-boat converted into a gunboat. Shortly afterwards he was sent to examine the fortifications of the Confederates on the Mississippi, his name being reported as a deserter, to the great distress of his friends. Prom this service he came back safely; but the following year, after destroying a hostile ferry-boat, ho was taken prisoner. After moro than thirteen months of captivity he was executed as a spy. The sentence would have been just had he been captured during his secret-service expedition. This severity is a matter of self-defence. The man who gains illicit knowledge cannot be allowed to escape. But this execution was a matter of vengeance. S. K. Brown knew nothing then but what everybody knew, and was a simple prisoner of war. But the Confederates strained military law more than once. The famous affair of the captured locomotive was another instance of this kind of conduct. The hanging of this youth—he was but a month or so over twenty-one—looks like a bit of savagery. —The Spectator, Volume 92 The supply of books about the American Civil War is already so large that we doubt the necessity of giving to the world extracts from the diary of a promising young spy who was handed by the Confederates in his twenty-second year. Spencer Kellogg Brown was not related to John Brown of Harper's Ferry (whose body lies mouldering in the grave), but was a neighbour of his in Kansas. The boy had pluck and talent, but his meditations on religion—of which the present book is largely composed—might well have been left in his diary. The book throws no new light on the war, arid the odd situation in Kansas for some years before its outbreak has been often before described. Mr. Smith is more interested in theology than in tactics, and in a needlessly long book—the outcome of friendship with Brown's family—makes no attempt to discuss the interesting point in military law raised by Brown's execution. The boy when captured was an honest belligerent, and was hanged for a much earlier piece of secret service. —The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, Volume 97
Download or read book Life and Death of a Union Spy Annotated written by George Smith and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Spencer Kellogg Brown was ready to fight for the Union well before the war broke out. He joined the struggle in "Bleeding Kansas" in the late fifties and when war did break out, he joined the Union Navy on the gunboat Essex.Infiltrating Rebel lines on secret assignments, he came close to execution more than once. He heard the guns of the Battle of Shiloh while with Confederate troops.In this exciting true story, Brown's own journal and letters to family are the source of the drama and humor of war. Gunboat battles, meetings with Grant, Stanton, Admiral Porter, and others punctuate a compelling tale of extreme danger and risk.Admiral Porter later worked feverishly to get Brown exchanged before the date of his execution. This story of a forgotten hero is one of the best of the Civil War.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.
Download or read book The Abolitionist and the Spy A Father a Son and Their Battle for the Union written by Ken Lizzio and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abolitionist and a spy, father and son, in the forgotten Western theater of the Civil War The abolitionist legacies of Orville Brown and his son, Spencer, live on in this historic and daring 19th-century account. Journeying apart from each other, but with similar passion, Orville and Spencer’s stories span virtually every major abolitionist event: from the battles of Bleeding Kansas and the establishment of the free-soil movement to the river wars of Memphis, Vicksburg, and Shiloh. Readers will follow Orville west as he struck out for Kansas Territory to help ensure its entry as a free state. But the life of his precocious eldest son, Spencer, serves as an eventful accompaniment to Orville’s own adventures. As a young Navy recruit in the Civil War’s Western theater, Spencer volunteered to go behind enemy lines on numerous occasions. With his bold sleuthing and detailed diaries, Spencer’s life unfolds vividly against the exciting backdrop of the Union and Confederate battle for control of the Mississippi River. The lives of these daring men are a fortifying record of American perseverance.
Download or read book Civil War Spies written by Craig Sodaro and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the dangerous missions of several Civil War spies.
Download or read book Biennial Report of the Board of Directors of the Kansas State Historical Society written by Kansas State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters written by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1861 to 1865, the Civil War raged along the great rivers of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. While various Civil War biographies exist, none have been devoted exclusively to participants in the Western river war as waged down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Red River, and up the Ohio, the Tennessee and the Cumberland. Based on the Official Records, county histories, newspapers and internet sources, this is the first work to profile personnel involved in the fighting on these great streams. Included in this biographical encyclopedia are Union and Confederate naval officers down to the rank of mate; enlisted sailors who won the Medal of Honor, or otherwise distinguished themselves or who wrote accounts of life on the gunboats; army officers and leaders who played a direct role in combat along Western waters; political officials who influenced river operations; civilian steamboat captains and pilots who participated in wartime logistics; and civilian contractors directly involved, including shipbuilders, dam builders, naval constructors and munitions experts. Each of the biographies includes (where known) birth, death and residence data; unit organization or ship; involvement in the river war; pre- and post-war careers; and source documentation. Hundreds of individuals are given their first historic recognition.
Download or read book Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Postal Age written by David M. Henkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans commonly recognize television, e-mail, and instant messaging as agents of pervasive cultural change. But many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary. As David M. Henkin argues in The Postal Age, a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the nineteenth century, laying the foundation for the interconnectedness that now defines our ever-evolving world of telecommunications. This fascinating history traces these shifts from their beginnings in the mid-1800s, when cheaper postage, mass literacy, and migration combined to make the long-established postal service a more integral and viable part of everyday life. With such dramatic events as the Civil War and the gold rush underscoring the importance and necessity of the post, a surprisingly broad range of Americans—male and female, black and white, native-born and immigrant—joined this postal network, regularly interacting with distant locales before the existence of telephones or even the widespread use of telegraphy. Drawing on original letters and diaries from the period, as well as public discussions of the expanding postal system, Henkin tells the story of how these Americans adjusted to a new world of long-distance correspondence, crowded post offices, junk mail, valentines, and dead letters. The Postal Age paints a vibrant picture of a society where possibilities proliferated for the kinds of personal and impersonal communications that we often associate with more recent historical periods. In doing so, it significantly increases our understanding of both antebellum America and our own chapter in the history of communications.
