Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War
Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

Author: Brian Matthew Jordan

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2015-01-26

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0871407825

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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History Winner of the Gov. John Andrew Award (Union Club of Boston) An acclaimed, groundbreaking, and “powerful exploration” (Washington Post) of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace. For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly home. In a landmark work that challenges sterilized portraits accepted for generations, Civil War historian Brian Matthew Jordan creates an entirely new narrative. These veterans— tending rotting wounds, battling alcoholism, campaigning for paltry pensions— tragically realized that they stood as unwelcome reminders to a new America eager to heal, forget, and embrace the freewheeling bounty of the Gilded Age. Mining previously untapped archives, Jordan uncovers anguished letters and diaries, essays by amputees, and gruesome medical reports, all deeply revealing of the American psyche. In the model of twenty-first-century histories like Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering or Maya Jasanoff ’s Liberty’s Exiles that illuminate the plight of the common man, Marching Home makes almost unbearably personal the rage and regret of Union veterans. Their untold stories are critically relevant today.

Genealogical Research in Ohio
Genealogical Research in Ohio

Author: Kip Sperry

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780806317137

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"This research guide describes Ohio sources for family history and genealogical research. It also includes extensive footnotes and bibliographies, addresses of repositories that house Ohio historical and genealogical records and oral histories, and addresses of chapters of the Ohio Genealogical Society. Valuable Ohio maps conclude this work ... This new edition describes many Ohio sources on the Internet and compact discs, as well as additional genealogical and historical sources and bibliographies of Ohio sources"--Preface.

Finding a Fallen Hero
Finding a Fallen Hero

Author: Bob Korkuc

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780806138923

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An author’s quest to discover what really happened to his uncle in World War II To all appearances, Anthony “Tony” Korkuc was just another casualty of World War II. A gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress, Korkuc was lost on a bombing mission over Germany, and his family believed that his body had never been recovered. But when they learned in 1995 that Tony was actually buried at Arlington National Cemetery, his nephew Bob Korkuc set out on a seven-year quest to learn the true fate of an uncle he never knew. Finding a Fallen Hero is a compelling story that blends a wartime drama with a primer on specialized research. Author Bob Korkuc initially set out to learn how his Uncle Tony came to rest at Arlington. In the process, he also unraveled the mystery of what occurred over the skies of Germany half a century ago. Korkuc dug up military documents and private letters and interviewed people in both the United States and Germany. He tracked down surviving crewmembers and even found the brother of the Luftwaffe pilot who downed the B-17. Dozens of photographs help readers envision both Tony Korkuc’s fateful flight and his nephew’s dogged search for the truth. A gripping chronicle of exhaustive research, Finding a Fallen Hero will strike a chord with any reader who has lost a family member to war. And it will inspire others to satisfy their own unanswered questions.

Listing of Military Veterans Buried in Clinton, County
Listing of Military Veterans Buried in Clinton, County

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Published: 2004

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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These burial records are "a compilation of Veteran burials by the Clinton County Genealogical Society in the 95 identified cemeteries of the 13 townships in Clinton County Ohio and some cemeteries in adjacent counties."--User's guide. These records are in both Microsoft Word and Word Perfect format.