The Tented Field
The Tented Field

Author: Tom Melville

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780879727703

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Presents an analytical explanation of why cricket failed as an American sporting institution. Devotes much attention to the rise of organized American sports immediately before and after the Civil War and interprets this phenomenon in the context of both its premodern American history as well as its development up to the First World War. The geographical focus is on the larger urban areas of the Atlantic seaboard, but other urban and rural areas are also discussed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Tented Field
The Tented Field

Author: Susan Downs Burleson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-07-13

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0595634230

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Share the personal letters of a family separated because of the war. Experience life in the South during the Civil War. Family members talk about the price of cotton, who has gone to war and who isn't coming home. James and Robert describe life in Army camps, battles, hospitals and in the Prisoner of War Camp, Elmira.

Upon the Tented Field
Upon the Tented Field

Author: Bernard A. Olsen

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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More than 300 letters, written by six men in the 14th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry.

Baseball's First Inning
Baseball's First Inning

Author: William J. Ryczek

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-11-29

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0786482834

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This history of America's pastime describes the evolution of baseball from early bat and ball games to its growth and acceptance in different regions of the country. Such New York clubs as the Atlantics, Excelsiors and Mutuals are a primary focus, serving as examples of how the sport became more sophisticated and popular. The author compares theories about many of baseball's "inventors," exploring the often fascinating stories of several of baseball's oldest founding myths. The impact of the Civil War on the sport is discussed and baseball's unsteady path to becoming America's national game is analyzed at length.

Memoirs And Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere
Memoirs And Correspondence of Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere

Author: Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 1787202267

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Field Marshal Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere GCB GCH KSI PC (14 November 1773 - 21 February 1865), was a British Army officer, diplomat and politician. As a junior officer he took part in the Flanders Campaign, in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War and in the suppression of Robert Emmet’s insurrection in 1803. He commanded a cavalry brigade in Sir Arthur Wellesley’s Army before being given overall command of the cavalry in the latter stages of the Peninsular War. He went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and then Commander-in-Chief, India. In the latter role he stormed Bharatpur—a fort which previously had been deemed impregnable. This book, which was published in two volumes, represents Viscount Combermere’s memoirs in the form of a vast collection of his private papers, as collated by his third wife, Mary, Viscountess Combermere. They serve to provide an invaluable and comprehensive view of the public and private life of one of England’s most distinguished soldiers.

Reminiscences of a Soldier
Reminiscences of a Soldier

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-05-26

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 3368731238

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.