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Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 884
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Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 884
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Manuel D. Lopez
Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 392
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 1382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John K. Driscoll
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2005-12-05
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0786423854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom his first court martial as a cadet at West Point through his dismissal from the United States Army at the age of 49, Justus McKinstry made his career through outright cunning and manipulation of the legal system. Graduating from West Point in 1838, he eventually landed a long-sought-after position in the quartermaster corps. During his service here he took advantage of the extraordinary wartime circumstances to betray the public trust and make a profit for himself in the guise of acquiring much needed supplies. He was brought before a court of inquiry or a court martial six times during his nefarious career, yet only one time were charges initiated from within the Army itself. The final charges--once again initiated from a source outside the Army--brought his crimes to light and resulted in his dismissal from the service. This biography takes a look at the forces within the life of Brigadier General Justus McKinstry that shaped him into the man he eventually became. It briefly discusses his upbringing as well as his unprecedented six years at West Point and his service during the Second Seminole and Mexican wars. The bulk of the text, however, concentrates on his Civil War commission and his duties as an officer of the quartermaster corps, especially his position as Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the West during the summer and fall of 1861. Special emphasis is placed on the ways in which the system itself failed McKinstry, bringing into question the ability of the Army to police itself. Sources incorporate an abundance of official records from the time period, including a transcript of McKinstry's final court martial.
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Total Pages: 52
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Published: 1991-04
Total Pages: 558
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 692
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann McMath
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1438435363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1851, fourteen-year-old orphan Ann McMath was sent to live with her uncle and his family in their parsonage in Horseheads, New York. Lonely and full of self doubt, anxious to establish female friendships in a new place, and questing for intellectual and moral perfection, she began keeping journal when she was seventeen and wrote in it regularly for the next five years, until she was married. A fascinating example of "biography from below," McMath's journal offers a rare glimpse of of life in the 1850s as it was lived by ordinary women, told in the authentic voice of a young woman coming of age in the Burned-Over District of Western New York. In addition to the journal itself, the book includes an introduction by editor C. Stewart Doty, as well as a geneaology, notes on the text, and a section entitled "People in the Life of Ann McMath," which gives brief biographies of everyone mentioned in the journal.