Download or read book The Lost Civil War Diary of John Rigdon King written by Donald B. Jenkins and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a crisp fall day in October of 1862, a precocious seventeen-year-old boy went into a bookshop in his hometown of Hagerstown, Maryland, and purchased a composition book. Into his new diary, John R. King would steadfastly record what he did, saw and heard daily, as the Civil War raged around him. During May of 1862, after learning the photography trade, John took portraits of Union soldiers stationed in the Shenandoah Valley. Then, on May 23, 1862, when he heard the sounds of battle, he attempted to flee on a wagon. He was soon captured by Stonewall Jackson's troops. His treasured diary was taken. Force marched to a Confederate prison, John vowed revenge. Two weeks after escaping from captivity, John joined the Union Army. He fought with fury, courage and valor, was wounded three times and became a war hero. Later, John was not only appointed by two presidents to prestigious positions in the Pension Bureau, but he also became leader of the Grand Army of the Republic. After being lost for 150 years, his diary was recently discovered and is now being published.
Download or read book The Gar Diaries written by Louis Bourgeois and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Lucas grew up as a gar fisherman's son, in the steamy backwater bayous of southeastern Louisiana. His story invites you into a brutal world that is dominated by domestic violence, poverty, and the day-to-day struggle for survival ... a struggle that might have left even the strongest of us emotionally scarred and bitter. Lucas (a distinctly non-heroic hero) reveals the childhood fights, the family traumas, and the fiercely wrought beauty of a visceral existence that feels ill at ease with itself. He gives us an unflinching look at a place and people we need to know. As you begin reading The Gar Diaries, be aware: the language is vivid, the emotions are intense, and the honesty is often disturbing. This book will truly reshape your perception of life in the Deep South - and might very well haunt your mind for years to come.
Download or read book Diary of a Contraband written by William Benjamin Gould and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author’s great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United States Navy from 1862 until the end of the war. The diary vividly records Gould’s activity as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia; his visits to New York and Boston; the pursuit to Nova Scotia of a hijacked Confederate cruiser; and service in European waters pursuing Confederate ships constructed in Great Britain and France. Gould’s diary is one of only three known diaries of African American sailors in the Civil War. It is distinguished not only by its details and eloquent tone (often deliberately understated and sardonic), but also by its reflections on war, on race, on race relations in the Navy, and on what African Americans might expect after the war. The book includes introductory chapters that establish the context of the diary narrative, an annotated version of the diary, a brief account of Gould’s life in Massachusetts after the war, and William B. Gould IV’s thoughts about the legacy of his great-grandfather and his own journey of discovery in learning about this remarkable man.
Download or read book The School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deshima Diaries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation of the marginalia, or marginal notes, that were added to the text of the Deshima Diaries from the 1670's onwards in order to provide the Dutch chief of Deshima with a quick reference to the notes of his predecessors. This volume covers the marginalia from the 1740-4800 diaries. Providing the general public, and especially those who have neither a command of Dutch nor of Japanese access to a fascinating period of Japanese history in which the Dutch played such a singular role. At the same time, the serious scholar wil obtain an easy key to the extremely rich holdings of the archive of the Deshima trading factory, which covers a shelf length of more than forty meters in the National Archives in the Netherlands, but which has been only rarely utilized by historians, Japanologists or other scholars. In the 1740s, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was in many ways at the height of its power. The second half of the 18th century saw the decline of the Company from being the high and mighty - and only - trading company which covered from its base in Batavia (Jakarta) all of Asia with a network that stretched from Basra in Persia to Nagasaki in Japan, to becoming a mere shadow of its former self with only a tenous hold on a few possessions in the Indonesian archipelago. By the end of the century, it had lost its establishments in South Africa, India and Ceylon to the British, and its flleet was gone. However, as a trading company, it was dead, but as a proto-colonial producer it was actually doing quite well. The basis of the present text are the Deshima Dagregisters: their original tables of contents, Vol. VII (1740-1760), Vol. VIII (1760-1780), Vol. IX (1780-1790), Vol. X (1790-1800) published in the Intercontinenta Series Nos. 18 (1993), 19 (1995), 20 (1996), and 21 (1997) by the Institute for the History of European Expansion at Leiden University. Scientific Publications of the Japan-Netherlands Institute No. 21. Published by the Japan-Netherlands Institute, Tokyo 2004 (original ISBN 4930921066).
Download or read book A Diary written by C. W. Gerard and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Diaries of Nikolay Punin written by Nikolaĭ Nikolaevich Punin and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 23rd of February [1923] . . . .It is also possible that there is no other love than animal love, or that horribly peaceful brotherly love. If only it were simpler. Romanticism will never fade away. And so I plod along, to put it simply. But my nerves are scattered across the sky in a fruitless fever. Good Lord, the burden! Pull my life together. I despair of doing so myself. If only I had lived without biography, in work and my essays. That would have been better (biography destroys). Does a Nekrasov-Mayakovsky still reside in each of us? An. [Anna Akhmatova], I love you nevertheless. I simply love you. I love you like Galya [Punin's wife], and you too will be mistress of my house, a little more original than Galya, but therefore also unfaithful...Only you are not to blame. You covered everything with your sufferings long ago. Go, Warm Intercessor, and give her peace, bless her from your height (cold and empty, like the sky between the stars), bless her head, which I so loved to hold in my hands, which I would have held in my hands forever. If there were such a thing as forever. Be gentle with her, Lord, as we cannot. Why is it so painful, because of what?
Download or read book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys F R S written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of John Evelyn Comprinsing His Diary from 1641 to 1705 6 and a Selection of His Famliar Letters written by John Evelyn and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adventures in Tibet Including the Diary of Miss Annie R Taylor s Remarkable Journey From Tau Cahu to Ta Chien Lu Through the Heart of the Forbidden Land written by William Carey and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My War Diary written by Mary King Waddington and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bender s Lawyers Diary and Directory for the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of John Evelyn comprising his diary from 1641 tp 1705 6 and a selection of his familiar letters To which is subjoined the private correspondence between Charles I and sir E Nicholas also between sir E Hyde and sir R Browne ed by W Bray written by John Evelyn and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys Etc Third Edition Considerably Enlarged written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys F R S June 1st 1663 Oct 30th 1666 written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dyott s Diary 1781 1845 written by William Dyott and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nothing but Victory written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed almost entirely of Midwesterners and molded into a lean, skilled fighting machine by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, the Army of the Tennessee marched directly into the heart of the Confederacy and won major victories at Shiloh and at the rebel strongholds of Vicksburg and Atlanta.Acclaimed historian Steven Woodworth has produced the first full consideration of this remarkable unit that has received less prestige than the famed Army of the Potomac but was responsible for the decisive victories that turned the tide of war toward the Union. The Army of the Tennessee also shaped the fortunes and futures of both Grant and Sherman, liberating them from civilian life and catapulting them onto the national stage as their triumphs grew. A thrilling account of how a cohesive fighting force is forged by the heat of battle and how a confidence born of repeated success could lead soldiers to expect “nothing but victory.”
