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Download or read book The War Outside My Window written by Janet Elizabeth Croon and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable account of the collapse of the Old South and the final years of a young boy’s privileged but afflicted life. LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave-holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty twelve-year-old began keeping a diary in 1860—just as secession and the Civil War began tearing the country and his world apart. He continued to write even as his health deteriorated until both the war and his life ended in 1865. His unique manuscript of the demise of the Old South is published here for the first time in The War Outside My Window. LeRoy read books, devoured newspapers and magazines, listened to gossip, and discussed and debated important social and military issues with his parents and others. He wrote daily for five years, putting pen to paper with a vim and tongue-in-cheek vigor that impresses even now, more than 150 years later. His practical, philosophical, and occasionally Twain-like hilarious observations cover politics and the secession movement, the long and increasingly destructive Civil War, family pets, a wide variety of hobbies and interests, and what life was like at the center of a socially prominent wealthy family in the important Confederate manufacturing center of Macon. The young scribe often voiced concern about the family’s pair of plantations outside town, and recorded his interactions and relationships with servants as he pondered the fate of human bondage and his family’s declining fortunes. Unbeknownst to LeRoy, he was chronicling his own slow and painful descent toward death in tandem with the demise of the Southern Confederacy. He recorded—often in horrific detail—an increasingly painful and debilitating disease that robbed him of his childhood. The teenager’s declining health is a consistent thread coursing through his fascinating journals. “I feel more discouraged [and] less hopeful about getting well than I ever did before,” he wrote on March 17, 1863. “I am weaker and more helpless than I ever was.” Morphine and a score of other “remedies” did little to ease his suffering. Abscesses developed; nagging coughs and pain consumed him. Alternating between bouts of euphoria and despondency, he often wrote, “Saw off my leg.” The War Outside My Window, edited and annotated by Janet Croon with helpful footnotes and a detailed family biographical chart, captures the spirit and the character of a young privileged white teenager witnessing the demise of his world even as his own body slowly failed him. Just as Anne Frank has come down to us as the adolescent voice of World War II, LeRoy Gresham will now be remembered as the young voice of the Civil War South. Winner, 2018, The Douglas Southall Freeman Award
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Download or read book Time to Awaken and Heal written by Lois Cunningham and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about my life and how I overcame Narcissistic abuse. I am an Empathic Rescuer. When we feel lonely or incomplete we open the door wide to Narcissists. Now on a Soul level, we bring them in so they bring us to crash and burn so we can become visible to ourselves and begin our Emotional Healing journey. Many of us feel like someone dropped us off and forgot to pick us back up! We feel like square pegs in round holes! Now there is a very good reason for that! How many of you sit outside, look at the stars and long for "home"? Does not make sense now does it, or does it? How many of you are frustrated at continually bringing the same type of partners into your relationships? Is there something we can do differently to get a different result? The answer is YES! I invite you to do your own research, don't take my word for some of the things I share with you as they are my understandings of situations. Have any of you noticed how the education system now a days disapproves of children asking questions? They just want children to regurgitate what they have been told. Governments don't like you questioning their official version of situations either! Your mind works best like a parachute, when it is open!
Download or read book Where There s a Will The Case of Jennie Brice The After House written by Mary Roberts Rinehart and published by Essential Library. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Rinehart Collection continues with Volume 3 of Mary Roberts Rinehart’s funny and fast-paced novels. Her fans are in for a triple treat in this mystery collection. Three of her novels, all set in the early 1900’s, are collected here for the first time. Each story features a cast of memorable characters, mysterious happenings and leads up to an astonishing conclusion! These well-written novels, which combine mystery and adventure, demonstrate Rinehart's tremendously vivid powers as a storyteller. These mysteries will leave you eager to read the other volumes in this series.
Download or read book On the Ice written by Gretchen Legler and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McMurdo Station, Antarctica, is home to eighty-mile-per-hour winds, minus seventy degree temperatures, and months of near-total darkness. Sent to Antarctica as an observer, Gretchen Legler tells the story of her season spent at McMurdo Station. Populated by people from all walks of life - bankers, MBAs, therapists, carpenters, scientists, laborers, and military brass - the individuals that Legler meets have gone to Antarctica to escape everything from parking tickets to angry spouses. Hoping to get away from the complexities of her own life, Legler arrives at McMurdo Station with the intention of researching the landscape; what she finds, instead, is a zany population of people." "Part sociological study, part historiography, and part love story, On the Ice is an exploration of one of the most unexplored places on earth and the people who are drawn to it."--BOOK JACKET.
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Download or read book From Gallipoli to the Skies written by Gillian Watch Whittall and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fred Reeve is a nineteen year old young man from Melbourne who dreams of flying. He builds a Bleriot in his back yard but does not finish it as war breaks out in 1914. After he enlists he writes to his mother and family regularly and these letters give a poignant account of life for a young soldier who tries to understand love, life and war and the expectation that every soldier should be a hero. He is critical of training in Egypt and comments that thousands of Australians have been lost just because of inexperience & no discipline. While hospitalised in Egypt he hears of the experiences of the wounded at Gallipoli and a fellow in the next bed is the only non commissioned officer left alive in his battalion. On the way to Gallipoli his ship is torpedoed and he spends many hours in the water before being rescued. At Gallipoli he is in the 'Hell of fighting' for five weeks before being evacuated. After recuperation on Malta and in Oxford he finally achieves his dream of joining the Royal Flying Corps in 1916. His daredevil flying exploits are recounted in newspaper articles in both the USA and Australia. He is flying on a mission in France when his aircraft comes down and he is killed."--Publisher's website.
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