Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories
Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories

Author: Roger D. Hunt

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-09-17

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13: 1476675899

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This biographical dictionary catalogs the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Missouri and the western States and Territories during the Civil War. The seventh volume in a series documenting Union army colonels, this book details the lives of officers who did not advance beyond that rank. Included for each colonel are brief biographical excerpts and any available photographs, many of them published for the first time.

Official Souvenir Program
Official Souvenir Program

Author: Greenfield Massachusetts

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780266619567

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Excerpt from Official Souvenir Program: Greenfield (Massachusetts) Sesqui-Centennial, 1753, June 9, 1903 Some white prisoners who escaped to their friends, circulated the story that King Philip and a thousand warriors were in close pursuit of the retiring soldiers. A sharp attack upon the rear of the column giving evidence of the truth of the report, a sudden fright arose and the retreat be came a running fight, Capt. Turner receiving his death wound as he forded Green river at the mouth of Mill brook. The English were followed in their retreat as far as the ruins of Deerfield village, and lost in killed and prisoners 39 men. Evidences were found that several of the cap tured were burned at the stake, north of the swamp near Four Corners. The wonderful escapes of young Jonathan Wells and Rev. Hope Atherton, from the perils which surrounded them, are vivid reminders of the dangers besetting the frontier settlers in the early times. In 1686, the present Main street was fixed upon for the Green river village, although the plan was not put upon record until 1749. Twenty Home Lots of eight acres each were laid out to persons who would agree to live in town for three years and pay taxes thereon. Twenty acres of farm land was assigned with each home lot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Lines that Divide
Lines that Divide

Author: James A. Delle

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9781572330863

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The division of human society by race, class, and gender has been addressed by scholars in many of the social sciences. Now historical archaeologists are demonstrating how material culture can be used to examine the processes that have erected boundaries between people. Drawing on case studies from around the world, the essays in this volume highlight diverse moments in the rise of capitalist civilization both in Western Europe and its colonies. In the first section, the contributors address the dynamics of the racial system that emerged from European colonialism. They show how archaeological remains shed light on the institution of slavery in the American Southeast, on the treatment of Native Americans by Mormon settlers, and on the color line in colonial southern Africa. The next group of articles considers how gender was negotiated in nineteenth-century New York City, in colonial Ecuador, and on Jamaican coffee plantations. A final section focuses on the issue of class division by examining the built environment of eighteenth-century Catalonia and material remains and housing from early industrial Massachusetts. These essays constitute an archaeology of capitalism and clearly demonstrate the importance of history in shaping cultural consciousness. Arguing that material culture is itself an active agent in the negotiation of social difference, they reveal the ways in which historical archaeologists can contribute to both the definition and dismantling of the lines that divide.