Reprint of a Department of Defense book in which the department honors contributions made by the many African Americans who have served in the US military. Special acknowledgement goes to Benjamin O. Davis Sr., who became the first black brigadier general; James Smith, the first black cadet to attend West Point; and many others. The book starts in the Colonial period with African Americans fighting in early wars, including the American Revolution, and goes through Vietnam. Includes biographies with photos of many African Americans who made their way through the military ranks. 176 pages. No i... View More...
Finn's Point National Cemetery Route 3, Salem, New Jersey is the final resting place for 2436 members of the Confederacy who were prisoners at Fort Delaware. View More...
Sons and Soldiers starts with Jewish families fleeing Germany as Hilter becomes powerful. Sons of these Jewish emigrants joined the U.S. army to return to Germany to fight for their country's freedom. They were known as the Richie Boys, named after the camp they trained at in Maryland. View More...
2 volumes listing over 22,050 + service people who died during WW II from Texas. Name, Rank, Serial number, county enlisted in, burial, death date plus metals and honors on many of these fallen heroes. Limited number of copies available. View More...
In this companion to The Life of Johnny Reb, Bell Irvin Wiley explores the daily lives of the men in blue who fought to save the Union. With the help of many soldiers' letters and diaries, Wiley explains who these men were and why they fought, how they reacted to combat and the strain of prolonged conflict, and what they thought about the land and the people of Dixie.
Sons and Soldiers draws on original interviews and extensive archival research to vividly re-create the stories of six of these men, tracing their journeys from childhood through their escapes from Europe, their feats and sacrifices during the war, and finally their desperate attempts to find their missing loved ones. As these boys became young men, they were determined to join the fight in Europe. Henderson describes how they were recruited into the U.S. Army and how their unique mastery of the German language and psychology was put to use to interrogate German prisoners of war. Sons and Sold... View More...
Republished from the original penned by Capt. Elkins by his family. Recounts his Civil War experience as well as his Ranger service in West Texas. Life in the wild west, capture of Cynthia Ann Parker and many other interesting events. View More...
David Perry was an American soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the founding of the United States – this autobiography recalls his early years, and his role in the conflict.Born in colonial Massachusetts on August 8th, 1741, Perry had a difficult childhood – the death of his mother when he was merely seven meant he was sent to live with his uncle to learn the trade of tanning and shoemaking. Like many boys of his time, he received basic militia and leadership training in the countryside of New England, and saw battle whilst a teenager. Perry's earliest memories of co... View More...
In the back of an old, unlabeled journal located in the vault of the County Clerk of Hempstead County, a researcher found several pages of information that may prove to be of value to you who have an interest in the history of the area at that time, or had families living in Hempstead County, Arkansas, in 1862. The data is entitled: "A List of the Families of Indigent Soldiers in Hempstead County". This list has been compiled from these handwritten records. Following this index of names is a transcription taken from the County Court Records to lend additional explanation to this record. 11 pag... View More...
To Confederate president Jefferson Davis, America had no finer soldier than Kentucky-born Texan Albert Sidney Johnston. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Davis turned to Johnston to take control of the deteriorating situation in the Western Theater. With a widely dispersed and undermanned army, Johnston tried but failed to hold the line in Kentucky and Tennessee.After yielding Forts Henry and Donelson, and Nashville, the Confederates fell back into Alabama and Mississippi, where Johnston rallied his troops for a surprise attack against Federal forces in western Tennessee.
Thus far, Joh... View More...
To Confederate president Jefferson Davis, America had no finer soldier than Kentucky-born Texan Albert Sidney Johnston. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Davis turned to Johnston to take control of the deteriorating situation in the Western Theater. With a widely dispersed and undermanned army, Johnston tried but failed to hold the line in Kentucky and Tennessee.After yielding Forts Henry and Donelson, and Nashville, the Confederates fell back into Alabama and Mississippi, where Johnston rallied his troops for a surprise attack against Federal forces in western Tennessee. 112 pages. View More...
189 pages, index. World War I has passed from living memory into the history books, receding far enough into the distance to provide a genealogical challenge. In order to reconstruct the lives and locate the records of those who served, fought, volunteered, or were conscripted, we must rely on a vast but relatively unknown body of resources. Counting all combatants, the number of men who served in the Great War runs into the millions; needless to say, finding records on them in the two dozen countries that participated in the war is a daunting and laborious task - now made infinitely simpler w... View More...
U.S. military pension laws changed frequently as to who would be awarded what and when. This books covers all of those laws beginning in 1776 with those who fought in the American Revolution. Various acts covered funds for wounded and disabled soldiers as well as money for widows and orphaned children of deceased soldiers. This is a helpful guide when doing military research in the 1800s. Free shipping View More...
AROOSTOOK WAR : HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ROSTER OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND ENLISTED MEN called into service for the protection of the northeastern frontier of Maine from February to May 1839, published in accordance with Council Order passed November 24, 1903. 95 pages, full name index.
The Civil War was tremendous in Kentucky, especially in Madison County.The war was literally brother against brother; nowhere was there better evidence of such division than in Kentucky. The division of views in this great struggle is epitomized by the fact that the president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, had been born in Todd County. Davis attended Transylvania University in Lexington, where President Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was reared; and her brother fought for the South. In Kentucky it was common for members of a family to split on the question of secession, with one or t... View More...
The US Army established over 60 military posts, temporary camps and major installions acrosss New Mexico. Most had been abandoned by the turn of the century. A few have been preserved anda few still in use. Includes maps and vintage photographs.
Resources for USA, Canadian and British military who fought in the War of 1812. Includes where to find and how to use Army & Navy records, bounty land warrants, newspapers, maps, government records, cemetery records, pension records, militia service, impressment, US marines, prisoners of war and more. View More...
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence—when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and... View More...
Dennis Northcott has ably demonstrated the importance of record interdependence in order to retrieve the most biographical information. His series of death rolls of the Grand Army of the Republic has proven its merit as a national resource tool. This volume treats the records of 36,000 ex-veterans who died in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska between 1883 and 1948. Clearly many of these veterans died prior to the existence of death records so these records may be the only record of such events. Grave markers of Union Civil War often lack dates of death so these death rolls provide positive identifica... View More...
"The remarkable untold story of France's courageous, clever vintners who protected and rescued the country's most treasured commodity from German plunder during World War II...the French devoted the same tenacity to saving their great wines from the Nazis as they did to safeguarding the treasures of the Louvre. An incredible tale." View More...
Book Condition: The cover of this book has shelf wear, plus a tear at the top. While the book is tightly bound and pages have no tears or marks, the lower portion of the pages are slightly wavy. Be sure to look at photos.This biography of a slave, Revolutionary War soldier and freeman is an interesting story of how Nero Hawley changed the course of his life. When he joined the army to fight in the Revolution, the war had been going for two years. He lived in Connecticut at the time, but soon after enlisting ended up at Valley Forge. After the war ended, he returned to Connecticut, where he be... View More...
Emil Adolph Bode, a German immigrant down on his luck, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1877 and served for five years. More literate than most of his fellow soldiers, Bode described western flora and fauna, commenting on the American Indians he encountered as well as the slaughter of the buffalo, the hard and lonely life of the cowboy, and towns and settlements he passed through. His observations, seasoned with wry wit and sympathy, offer a truer picture of the frontier military experience than all the dashing cavalry charges and thundering artillery in Western literature. 237 pages, indexed. View More...
This slender volume presents documented biographical sketches on over 400 Bolton soldiers and sailors. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname and typically include: given name; military service; date and place of birth, names of parents; date of marriage and name of spouse (with additional information as available); date and place of death; names of children with dates of birth, baptism and death (as available); and reference. Some entries contain a "Note" which provides additional information. A cross-index "covers all names which do not appear in the correct alphabetical order, inclu... View More...
when the Confederate States offered Josiah Gorgas the job of ordnance officer, he accepted the challenge; he eveloped an unfailing munitions supply that stood solidly while the rest of the Confederacy's support crumbled;349 pages View More...
