Download or read book History of the Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield Mass 1851 1901 written by William E. Eaton and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield Massachusetts written by Barry M. Stentiford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of the Richardson Light Guard of Wakefield, Massachusetts, from its origins in 1851 until its end in 1975. What had been an institution of community members and local elites passed to town, then state, and finally federal government. During the same period, Wakefield evolved from an agrarian town to a manufacturing town and finally to a bedroom suburb, ending the practice of a handful of local elites ruling the town unchallenged. Though the rise of the National Guard was generally positive, for some militia companies, inclusion in the National Guard weakened vital bonds with their communities. In the 19th century, the Richardson Light Guard thrived under generous patrons, a supportive town, and a relatively wealthy state government. After becoming part of the National Guard in 1916, the links with its home community steadily weakened, finally breaking during World War II. After the war, the National Guard company had few links to Wakefield and was reorganized out of existence in 1975.
Download or read book History of the Richardson Light Guard written by and published by . This book was released on 1926* with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Home Guard written by Barry M. Stentiford and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since colonial times Americans have used the militia to maintain local order during both war and peacetime. States have intermittently created, maintained, deployed, and disbanded countless militia organizations outside the scope of the better-known National Guard. Barry M. Stentiford tells the story of these militia units--variously called home guards, State Guard, National Guard Reserve, and State Defense Forces. Stentiford traces the evolution of the militia over the past century, demonstrating its transformation from an amalgamation of state militia units into the National Guard, a reserve of the army. Ironically, the very existence of the National Guard made the creation of other militia forces necessary during periods of war. The home guards or State Guard were organized to fill the vacuum left when the National Guard was called up, depriving states of an organized militia that could be mobilized for repelling invasions, suppressing riots, controlling strikes, or guarding the waterfront. Stentiford carefully analyzes the challenges that faced the State Guards as states sought to build their new militia with leftover men and material. He also examines the role of the State Guard: providing relief during and after natural disasters, providing military training for future draftees, and broadening participation in military units during wartime by giving a role to men who, because of their age or occupation, could not join the federal forces. The State Guard gained a new significance in the Cold War, especially as the political unpalatability of a draft and reductions in the size of the full-time military expanded the functions of the National Guard in military policy. Today modern state militias, born to an ancient tradition, must define a role for themselves in a society that increasingly views them as anachronistic. They mut also compete ideologically with so-called unorganized militias for the title of true heir to the American militia tradition.
Download or read book The Early Morning of War written by Edward G. Longacre and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 681 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This crucial campaign receives its most complete and comprehensive treatment in Edward Longacre’s The Early Morning of War. A magisterial work by a veteran historian, The Early Morning of War blends narrative and analysis to convey the full scope of the campaign of First Bull Run—its drama and suspense as well as its practical and tactical underpinnings and ramifications.
Download or read book The Richardson Memorial written by John Adams Vinton and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Class of 1863 Yale College written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogical history of the town of Reading Mass written by Lilley Eaton and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1874-01-01 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: including the present towns of Wakefield, Reading, and North Reading, with chronological and historical sketches, from 1639 to 1874
Download or read book History of Wakefield Middlesex County Massachusetts written by Wakefield, Mass. Tercentenary Committee and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Hundred Days to Richmond written by Jim Leeke and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1864, after three bloody years of civil war and with victory seemingly within reach for the Northern armies, John Brough, Ohio's energetic wartime governor, offered his state's militia for 100 days of federal service. Ordered east for duty in forts, railways, and prisons, they freed veteran troops to make the last great push against Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy. History soon overtook the Ohioans, however. They fought at Monocacy with Lew Wallace and under the watchful eye of Abraham Lincoln at Fort Stevens. They battled Mosby and other feared Southern guerrillas in Virginia and West Virginia. They fell to John Hunt Morgan's cavalry in Kentucky. They toiled and fought against thunderous Petersburg.
Download or read book History of Lowell and Its People written by Frederick William Coburn and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War written by William Schouler and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Fifth Regiment M V M written by Frank Torrey Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Massachusetts in the Civil War Civil and military history v 2 Cities and towns written by William Schouler and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doughboy War written by James H. Hallas and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2009-01-19 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multilayered history of World War I's doughboys captures the experiences of American soldiers as they trained for war, voyaged to France, and faced the harsh reality of combat on the Western Front in 1917-18. Hallas uses the words of the troops themselves to describe the first days in the muddy trenches, the bloody battles for Belleau Wood, the violent clash on the Marne, the seemingly unending morass of the Argonne, and more, revealing what the doughboys saw, what they did, how they felt, and how the Great War affected them.
Download or read book The Fifth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in Its Three Tours of Duty 1861 1862 63 1864 written by Alfred Seelye Roe and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Richardson Memorial Comprising a Full History and Genealogy of the Posterity of the Three Brothers E S and T Richardson who Came from England and United with Others in the Foundation of Woburn Massachusetts in the Year 1641 Etc written by John Adams VINTON and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
