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The First and Second Maryland Infantry, C.S.A.

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Robert J. Driver Jr.

Heritage Books Inc., 2004

Thunder and Sunshine
The loyalty of Robert J Driver Jr is evident in this hardbound book through his writing style. "The enemy was badly beaten, being driven at a run through the streets of Gettysburg and several miles there from an almost impregnable position at Cemetery Hill." The First Maryland Infantry was formed from Marylanders who chose to align with the Confederacy against a Union government that had ...

Nanny Wood: From Washington Belle to Portland's Grande Dame
Philip W. Leon

Heritage Books Inc., 2003

Nanny Wood: From Washington Belle to Portland's Grande Dame - Philip W. Leon. Nanny Wood (1855-1933) lived at Fort Sumter in 1861 with her uncle, a federal officer, departing just days before the shelling that began the Civil War. She returned to her native Baltimore, then rejoined her uncle and experienced combat in North Carolina. When her widowed mother married the distinguished physician to two Presidents, the vivacious Nanny ...

Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War
S. Eugene Clements, F. Edward Wright

Heritage Books Inc., 2001

Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War - S. Eugene Clements and F. Edward Wright. Describes events and major aspects of the militia, with over 15,000 men, most of whom did not serve in the Continental Service and appear nowhere else in publication. Excellent aid in establishing requirement for entrance into lineage societies such as DAR, SAR, etc. (1987), 2001, 5½ x 8½, index, paper, 351 pp.

Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1732-1785
Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Heritage Books Inc., 2003

These wills were abstracted under the auspices of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Every name mentioned in the original will is abstracted. (1995), 2003, 5½x8½, index, paper, 327 pp. X0496 - 1123WB

Genealogical Gems from Early Missouri Deeds, 1815-1850

Heritage Books, Inc., 2004

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have no Missouri ancestry and that this book therefore has no use for you. In the nineteenth century it was difficult to get from the east side of the United States to the west without going through Missouri. Your direct ancestor may have made a brief appearance in Missouri of which you are unaware. These abstracts are not complete for the county covered, nor does this work cover all the counties in ...

The Quaker of Olden Time: The Life and Times of Israel Thompson (d. 1795)--His Land, Plantation, Mills, ...
Roberto Costantino

Heritage Books, Inc., 2004

This original contribution to American cultural geography concerns backwoods developmental dynamics in the Blue Ridge Uplands during the second half of the 18th century. It is a book about American folk like and the life and times of a certain woodland pioneer named Israel Thompson of a distinctive culture who transformed a temperate wooded area into farmland or a material culture. It traces his family from Anglo Irish Quaker roots through the ...

This Side of Anywhere: Minnesota Farm Chronicles
Vivian Norberg Loken

Heritage Books, Inc., 2004

Grandfather Olaf Norberg came to Mora, Minnesota, in 1882, a year before Mora became a village. He died before his grand-daughter, the author, was born, but his accomplishments and his memory shine throughout this vivid portrait of her life growing up in rural Minnesota. Growing up in the house built by her Grandfather, while not easy, ingrained in Vivian Loken a respect for simple values, an awareness of the need to worship, and a consciousness ...

Tragedy at Montpelier: The Untold Story of Ten Confederate Deserters from North Carolina

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Jayne E. Blair

Heritage Books Inc., 2003

Jayne E. Blair, Tragedy at Montpelier: The Untold Story of T
Whoever said "the pen is mightier than the sword" had never read Tragedy at Montpelier. This 122- page book is an account of the execution of ten deserters from the Third North Carolina Regiment at Montpelier, Virginia in 1863. Blair spends the first thirteen pages dealing with Montpelier and its most famous owner, James Madison. This is fair enough, as is the account that follows of the Civil ...

Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, West Virginia (Heritage Classic)
William T. Price

Heritage Books Inc, 2008

Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779
Frederick Cook

Heritage Books, Inc., 2004

In 1779, Major General John Sullivan led a scorched earth campaign against the troublesome Iroquois, who had sided with the British under Sir William Johnson since the days of the French and Indian War. Sullivan and his men marched from Tioga to Newtown (Elmira), NY, burning and destroying every native village along the way. One major skirmish occurred, resulting in the capture and subsequent brutal torture of three of Sullivan's men. This work ...

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