{"title":"Diaries and Journals","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"101-cd3683","title":"CD-A Pioneer of 1850, George Willis Read, 1819-1880","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850, with a letter from the Diggings in October of the same year and an account of a journey from New York to California via Panama, in 1862, capture by the Confederate raider \"Alabama\", etc., and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis volume is a record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850, with a letter from the Diggings in October of the same year and an account of a journey from New York to California, via Panama, in 1862, capture by the Confederate raider, \u003cem\u003eAlabama\u003c\/em\u003e, and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author's father was well suited to keep a \"dispassionate appraisal of the journey. Trained by his profession to be keenly observant, and born of a family accustomed, from early Colonial days, to serve its country and to bear in mind an ideal of the common weal, he laid aside his practice of medicine to become the captain of a company to cross the plains.\" His penciled entries in a worn sheepskin notebook tell the story of a great endeavor and a great achievement. An extensive bibliography gives the researcher a great source for further study of the westward expansion, the frontier and the gold rush.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis is a tangible media product shipped via mail. Contains historical reference data.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorgia Willis Read\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(1927), 2005, Physical CD-ROM for PC or Mac, 244 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788436833\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-CD3683\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42135155472,"sku":"101-CD3683","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-cd3683-1500px.png?v=1776981164"},{"product_id":"101-s3745","title":"Who is Markie? The Life of Martha Custis Williams Carter, Cousin and Confidante of Robert E. Lee","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver seventy years ago, the Huntington Library published a slim volume of the letters of Robert E. Lee, \u003cem\u003eTo Markie\u003c\/em\u003e. Who was Markie? The short answer is that she was Martha Custis Williams, a cousin of Lee's wife, Mary Custis Lee. But she is worth knowing in her own right. Hers was a life that spanned three quarters of the nineteenth century, filled with life's joys and sorrows, and connected with people and events that we know well from our history books. She left us a considerable record in her correspondence and diaries. Thus she opens a new window through which we can view an important period in American history, as well as learn about the life of an articulate and accomplished woman and her response to the conditions imposed on a woman, single for most of her life, in the nineteenth century. This fascinating biography is enhanced with numerous vintage photographs and an index to full names, places and subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrances Scott and Anne C. Webb\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2007, 5.5\" x 8.5\", paper, index, 252 pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780788437458\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e101-S3745\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heritage Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":12242960384118,"sku":"101-S3745","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1654\/3033\/files\/101-s3745-1500px.png?v=1777304359"},{"product_id":"101-s4636","title":"A Quaker Goes to War: The Diary of William Harvey Walter, Company F, 188th Pennsylvania Volunteers","description":"\u003cp\u003eLearn how a humble man from Kennett, Chester County, Pennsylvania lived his beliefs during and after the Civil War. The doctrine of \"pacifism\" is part of a Quaker's religious beliefs and William Harvey Walter, Quaker, faced the dilemma of adhering to his faith or serving his country. \u003cem\u003eA Quaker Goes to War\u003c\/em\u003e is his story of service with the Union Forces during the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaken word for word from the diary he carried with him, the journal begins with William's departure for Fortress Monroe, January 1, 1864. Entries include his training, transport of Rebel prisoners, joining Company F 188th Pennsylvania Volunteers and their service at Petersburg, operations against Fort Darling, Drewry's Bluff, and on the Bermuda Hundred front as well as Cold Harbor, Chaffin's Farm, and duty in the trenches before Richmond. But most importantly, William's diary informs us of the movement of Company F during its detached service from its regiment from May 16 through July 5, 1864. Further, William's diary goes beyond mustering out at City Point, Virginia, December 14, 1865. It tells us how returning solders were treated, their struggles to find work, to regain their place at the end of the war. It also sets the record straight for one man, William C. Horn, mistakenly accused of desertion, who died serving his country.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWilliam Harvey Walter was irritated at the expression \"Last Call Men,\" a derogatory term applied to soldiers who served only in the last year of the war. He wanted the truth known. A proud and active member of the G.A.R., William contributed an article to the National Tribune (October 8, 1892) in which he attempts to set the historical record straight regarding his regiment's short term of service. 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