Mexican War journal of Dr. Thomas Neely Love,surgeon 2nd regiment Mississippi volunteer infantry,USA. 313 indexed pages of information about the Mexican War and soldiers of the 2nd regiment Mississippi Infantry. View More...
The purpose of this book is to provide a source of personal names of individuals who lived in Morgan County, Georgia from 1842 through 1861, as recorded n the news articles and advertisements of local newspapers of that era. An abstract was made of each item containing a name associated with Georgia, South Carolina, or Alabama. 372 pages, full name index.
Names include: Copeland, Dye, Fannin, Kenan, Ogilby, Ruark View More...
Volume 1 contains more than 460 legal records with some 3,000 names of early South Carolina settlers named in the Districts of Edgefield, Laurens, Pendleton, Pickens, Spartanburg, and York, and such records as: wills, deeds, estate administration, slave papers, petitions, inquest, and equity records. Part of the Genealogical Collection of South Carolina Wills & Records series.
Lieutenant Commander Michael Nolden Henderson, U.S. Navy retired, captures the attention of genealogists, historians, and others interested in the complex social structure that developed during the French and Spanish colonial periods in Louisiana. He explores forbidden relationships that spawned the unique heritage of Creoles of color. Referencing documents from as far back as the 1770s, Henderson uses his own experiences as a family history researcher and the insight of notes scholars to reveal the methods, standards, and techniques used to prove his ancestry. Additionally, his efforts led to... View More...
This book is about our land and our heritage. Our heritage includes ways of thinking, believing, and doing things. You will also read about the many people who have contributed to our nation's heritage in the past. The study of the past is called history. History is a means by which we learn or our heritage as citizens and as a nation.
The book begins with the early French explorers and hardy fur trappers. He covers the history of the paddle-wheel steamboats from the first one on the Mississippi River in 1811, the "NEW ORLEANS", to the founding and growth of the paddle-wheel steamboat companies on the upper Mississippi River -- from passenger and freight steamboats to excursion paddle-wheel steamboats of today.You will find photographs and early historical stories of the upper Mississippi river towns from St.Louis, Missouri, to Minneapolis, Minnesota.Added to all this history are stories and tales from river pilots about the... View More...
"Wilderness at Dawn" is the sprawling saga of the men and women who settled the land that would become the United States of America. From early man to the pioneers, this book, the first volume in Ted Morgan's two-volume epic, takes us back to the time when people from around the world converged upon this rugged expanse of land and struggled to make a home for themselves.
Never before have we heard the stories of the ordinary settlers, women, slaves, and Native Americans--the people who actually shaped the country. In the tradition of Daniel Boorstin and David McCullough, Morgan recreates the ... View More...
