Uncle Billy
Uncle Billy

Author: Uncle Billy

Publisher:

Published: 1861

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Letter written from Elkton, Ky. by "Uncle Billy" to his younger brother discussing secession after Lincoln's election. He writes that Kentucky is "strongly advocating the preservation of the Union, if it can be done without compromising her rights". He adds that Kentucky doesn't "deem the election of Lincoln as sufficient cause for the dismemberment of the Union". He criticizes the actions of S. Carolina and "Southern fanatics". He ends his letter telling of a book he has written and the costs of publishing it in Kentucky.

Campaigning with Uncle Billy
Campaigning with Uncle Billy

Author: Robert I. Girardi

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2008-10-17

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1466957239

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Campaigning with Uncle Billy is the memoir of the service of Sgt. Lyman S. Widney of Illinois who served throughout the Civil War with the 34th Illinois Infantry. Widney's account of his wartime service is based on the diary he kept during the conflict. As a regimental clerk, he was in a position to meet many prominent people and to know the plans and thinking of the command staff. Widney's narrative is personal, highly detailed, vividly descriptive and accurate. He writes with emotion and humor. He details the life of the volunteer soldiers as they enlist, adapt to military life and learn the trade of soldiering. His descriptions of the horrors of the battlefield, its grisly aftermath and the toll that sickness exacted on the rank and file is highly personal. Through Widney's eyes we explore the countryside, tour Mammoth Cave, learn firsthand about combat and sickness and endure life in the trenches in the relentless fighting of the Atlanta Campaign and the grueling March to the Sea and through the Carolinas. Widney's memoir is a worthy addition to the literature of the Civil War from the point of view of the common soldier.

Reminiscences Book One
Reminiscences Book One

Author: James L. Randolph

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2023-08-25

Total Pages: 986

ISBN-13:

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Reminiscences examines the growth and life of a young African American boy coming of age in the second half of the twentieth century. Jamarius Russell is the main protagonist, and he informs the reader of events and circumstances that affected him as his family as the years rolled by. As he reflects and looks back on his years and those of his family, his grandparents and his ancestors from a previous time and place. This is an American novel about America and about its history. It is a story about a group of people, over generations, facing critical moments in their lives and their history. Reminiscences has a cinematic quality to it as the years pass by as Jamarius Russell, Lee Somersom Russell and Eloise Sudey, the elderly senior citizen, tell a tale of woe and hope, of aspiration and disappointment and of life and death. Remiscences is a story readers would enjoy because the reader gets to experience and live what the characters live.