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  • From Home to Trench: The Civil War Letters of Mack and Nan Ewing

    by Wallace K. Ewing Ph.D. ...
    In an age of disposability it is remarkable that the letters in this volume have been saved and handed down through four generations of Nan’s and Mack’s descendants. They provide a vivid, personal look into the everyday life of a small family just prior to and during the Civil War. Although people of modest means and education, their interests were wide and varied and they often voiced their ... Read more

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  • Grand Haven

    by Wallace K. Ewing Ph.D., Elizabeth Dobbie, Tri-Cities Historical Museum ...
    Series series Then and Now
    As fur trading in Michigan came to an end, pioneers migrated to Grand Haven for lumber. By the time the last acre of trees was harvested, Grand Haven had shifted from dependence on lumber to manufacturing and tourism. These images illustrate the foundations upon which the community was built and changes wrought through the years. ... Read more

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  • The Grand Haven Area 1905-1975 in Vintage Postcards

    by Wallace K. Ewing Ph.D., David H. Seibold D.D.S., Tri-Cities Historical Museum ...
    Series series Postcard History Series
    By the start of the 20th century, the Grand Haven area had begun to establish itself as a desirable vacation spot, as well as the center of a vigorous manufacturing base. Trains, stately steamers, and private automobiles brought visitors to the resorts of their choice, while many new companies joined other well-established firms, broadening employment opportunities for local workers. It was a time ... Read more

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  • The Grand Haven Area: 1860-1960

    by Wallace K. Ewing Ph.D., David H. Seibold D.D.S., Tri-Cities Historical Museum ...
    Series series Images of America
    Grand Haven is nestled in wooded dunes and surrounded by the waters of Lake Michigan, Spring Lake, and the Grand River. Under the leadership of Rev. William Montague Ferry, the first settlers arrived from Mackinac Island November 2, 1834. In recognition of the port's large, accommodating and safe harbor, Rix Robinson, fur trader and land holder, platted and named the town April 15, 1835. The ... Read more

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    The Life in Letters of a Great Leader of the American Civil War

    by Thomas Desjardin, The National Civil War Museum ...
    The largest collection of never-before published letters from and to Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain provides a foundation for a new look at the life of one of the War's most enduring legends.His life is a remarkable story of perseverance, tragedy and triumph. From an insecure young man with a considerable stutter who grew up in a small town in eastern Maine, Joshua Chamberlain rose to become a ... Read more

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  • Who Was Ulysses S. Grant?

    by Megan Stine, Who HQ ...
    Illustrated by Mark Edward Geyer ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Ulysses S. Grant certainly does not have the typical war hero “back story.” Although a graduate of West Point, he never wanted to be a soldier and was terrified when he first saw battle. However, during the Civil War, after many Northern generals failed to deliver decisive victories, U.S. Grant rose to what the times required. He took command of Union forces, helped bring the war to an end in 1865 ... Read more

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  • Brother of Mine

    The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie

    by Hampton Smith ...
    In 1861, as President Lincoln called for volunteers to defend the Union, Thomas Christie wrote to his father, voicing desires shared by many an enlistee: "I do want to 'see the world,' to get out of the narrow circle in which I have always lived, to 'make a man of myself,' and to have it to say in days to come that I, too, had a part in this great struggle."As it turned out, Thomas had an ... Read more

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  • Blood and War at My Doorstep

    by Brenda Chambers McKean ...
    "Between these pages the reader will learn that North Carolina citizens did not idly standby as their soldiers marched off to war. The women worked themselves into “patrioticexhaustion” through Aid Societies. Civilians with different means of support from thelower class to the plantation mistress wrote the governor complaining of hoarding,speculation, the tithe, bushwhackers, unionism, ... Read more

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  • The Civil War Diary of John F. Locke, 14th Tennessee (1861)

    by John F. Locke ...
    John F. Locke was a Confederate soldier in the 14th Tennessee, Company D, and served in the Army of Northern Viriginia throughout the American Civil War. This portion of the diary exposes the reader to the mind of John F. Locke and his experiences in 1861. ... Read more

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  • Another Year Finds Me in Texas

    The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens

    by Vicki Adams Tongate ...
    In one of the few women's diaries from Civil War–era Texas , a Northerner trapped in the Confederacy at the outbreak of war recounts her experience.Lucy Pier Stevens, a twenty-one-year-old woman from Ohio, came to visit her aunt's family near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day, 1859. Little did she know how drastically her life would change on April 4, 1861, when the outbreak of the Civil War ... Read more

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  • Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited

    by Jim Bryan ...
    Allendale on the Savannah - Revisited is based on an earlier work and is a historical account of the settlement and development of Allendale County, SC from the days of early Spanish explorers through 1970.It is based on the work of my Great Aunt, Alexania Easterling Lawton and Mrs. Minnie Reeves Wilson which was published in 1970. This work attempts to correct some of the mistakes in the original ... Read more

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  • A Civil War Captain and His Lady

    A True Story of Love, Courtship, and Combat

    by Gene Barr ...
    "Barr's engaging and revealing collection of letters from Lincoln country directly links the battlefield with the home front" (Randall M. Miller, editor of Lincoln & Leadership).More than 150 years ago, twenty-seven-year-old Irish immigrant Josiah Moore met nineteen-year-old Jennie Lindsay, a member of one of Peoria, Illinois's most prominent families. The Civil War had just begun, Josiah was the ... Read more

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