Books with title Soldiers of the Civil War

Wat, A Son of the Civil War is a coming-of-age story about a real, curious, and wise-beyond-his-years boy in a North Carolina rail¬road village during the Civil War. Known as Page’s Station at the time, that railroad crossing 150 years later is known as Cary, North Carolina, a sprawling, bustling hub of 21st-century technology. Allison Francis Page, for whom the junction was called, was its founder and also the father of Wat, the family nickname for his son, Walter Hines Page (WHP). The story of Cary’s founding and early growth and the story of young WHP’s boyhood are filled with pathos and Tom Sawyer–like anecdotes. A historical novella is for history lovers of all ages, especially Civil War aficionados. This book relates the events in Wat’s small village during the Civil War, and how his experiences became the bed¬rock of his adult careers and the good works that flowed from them for North Carolina, the South, and the United States—establishing Walter Hines Page as a man worthy of a presence in our contemporary conscious¬ness, especially residents of the Old North State.

The U.S. Civil War cost more than 620,000 lives, pitted family member against family member, and wreaked havoc across the South's landscape. Through engaging text, infographics, and primary source images, get the inside story about this four year long fight between the Union and the Confederacy, from its brave heroes to its biggest battles and the Reconstruction period that followed.

The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just 12 years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored. Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible stories of the boys who went to fight for their country. Richard van Emden, having amassed a unique collection of personal testimonies and hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, brings to life their stories of heroism and sacrifice. This edition has been completely revised and updated.

SUBJECTUncles -- Juvenile fictionCONTENTS.book spineCHAPTER I. PageEnlisting in the Grand Army9CHAPTER II.Drafted27CHAPTER III.True to one's Colors42CHAPTER IV.Little Steps by the Way60CHAPTER V.One of the Small Deeds80CHAPTER VI.Giving and Receiving98CHAPTER VII.A Visit116CHAPTER VIII.Comfort in Need135CHAPTER IX.Thorns in the Path151CHAPTER X.Under Fire172CHAPTER XI.In Another's Stead192CHAPTER XII.Home Again208CHAPTER XIII.Good News223CHAPTER XIV.Put To the Test241

The youngest soldier who fought in the Great War is believed to have been just 12 years old. Many thousands of other boys are known to have faked eye tests, inflated their small chests and stood on tiptoes to bluff their way into a war of unforeseen horror. How and why so many under-aged boys were able to get to the battlefields is a complex mystery of World War I, and until Richard van Emden's classic account, largely unexplored. Boy Soldiers of the Great War tells for the first time the incredible stories of the boys who went to fight for their country. Richard van Emden, having amassed a unique collection of personal testimonies and hitherto unpublished diaries and letters, brings to life their stories of heroism and sacrifice. This edition has been completely revised and updated.

SubjectUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narrativesUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental historiesBeatty, John, 1828-1914INTRODUCTORY.In the lifetime of all who arrive at mature age, there comes a period when a strong desire is felt to know more of the past, especially to know more of those from whom we claim descent. Many find even their chief pleasure in searching among parish records and local histories for some knowledge of ancestors, who for a hundred or five hundred years have been sleeping in the grave. Long pilgrimages are made to the Old World for this purpose, and when the traveler discovers in the crowded church-yard a moss-covered, crumbling stone, which bears the name he seeks, he takes infinite pains to decipher the half-obliterated epitaph, and finds in this often what he regards as ample remuneration for all his trouble. How vastly greater would be his satisfaction if he could obtain even the simplest and briefest history of those in whom he takes so deep an interest. Who were they? How were their days spent, and amongst what surroundings? What were their thoughts, fears, hopes, acts? Who were their associates, and on which side of the great questions of the day did they stand? A full or even partial answer to these queries would possess for him an incalculable value.So, sitting here to-night, in my little library, with wife and children near, and by God's great kindness all in life and health, I look forward one, two, five hundred years, and see in each succeeding century, and possibly in each generation, so long as the name shall last, a wonder-eyed boy, curious youth, or inquisitive old man, exploring closets and libraries for things of the old time, stumbling finally on this volume, which has, by the charity of the State Librarian, still been preserved; he discovers, with quickening pulse, that it bears his own name, and that it was written for him by one whose body has for centuries been dust. Dull and uninteresting as it may be to others, for him it will possess an inexpressible charm. It is his own blood speaking to him from the shadowy and almost forgotten past. The message may be poorly written, the matter in the main may be worthless, and the greater events recorded may be dwarfed by more recent and important ones, but the volume is nevertheless of absorbing interest to him, for by it he is enabled to look into the face and heart of one of his own kin, who lived when the Nation was young. In leaving this unpretentious record, therefore, I seek to do simply what I would have had my fathers do for me.Kinsmen of the coming centuries, I bid you hail and godspeed!Columbus, December 16, 1878.The Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry served under two separate terms of enlistment—the one for three months, and the other for three years.The regiment was organized April 21, 1861, and on April 27th it was mustered into the United States service, with the following field officers: Isaac H. Marrow, Colonel; John Beatty, Lieutenant Colonel, and J. Warren Keifer, Major.The writer's record begins with the day on which his regiment entered Virginia, June 22, 1861, and ends on January 1, 1864. He does not undertake to present a history of the organizations with which he was connected, nor does he attempt to describe the operations of armies. His record consists merely of matters which came under his own observation, and of camp gossip, rumors, trifling incidents, idle speculations, and the numberless items, small and great, which, in one way and another, enter into and affect the life of a soldier. In short, he has sought sim.....