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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Lower Ohio Valley Vol 2 Personal and Genealogical With PortraitsGustavus V Menzies a promi nent attorney of Mount Vernon 1nd and one of the Democratic leaders of the Hoos ier state was born in Boone county Ky Dec 24 1844 He is a son of Dr Samuel G And Sally winston Menzies both natives of Kentucky where the name of Menzies has been prominent in the annals of the state for fully a century In his day Doctor Menzies was an eminent physician When the Civil war broke out he enlisted as surgeon of the First Ken tucky regiment and served in that capacityAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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This richly illustrated book is the eighth of nine Classics in Southeastern Archaeology volumes based on Moores investigations along the waterways of eastern North America This oversized reprint volume presents original materials from Moores northernmost expeditions conducted in the early 1900s as he surveyed areas of potential archaeological interest in the southeastern United States Some of the sites he found were later targeted for major excavations during the days of the WPACCC Many National Register Historic Sites are today located along the rivers he explored in this work In many cases however Moores report documents sites since destroyed by river action or by lake impoundments behind hydroelectric dams or by lootersAs with all of Moores other investigations his thorough documentation and collaboration with other scholars advanced understanding of aboriginal peoples and fueled debate among the experts For instance more than 296 burials were recovered from Indian Knoll on the Green River in Kentucky Some graves included ceremonially killed artifacts dogs buried with both adults and children and exotic materials leading to speculations concerning origins usage and trade networks Stone box graves were widespread and somewhat exclusive to this area giving rise to early assumptions regarding kinship between scattered modern Indian tribesRichard Polhemus has compiled a comprehensive inventory of Moores work in Tennessee Alabama Mississippi and Kentucky and written a concise introduction to place the work in context In so doing he has made available to contemporary scholars of history archaeology and anthropology a trove of resource material on one of the most archaeologically rich and artifactdiverse regions in the nation
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This richly illustrated book is the eighth of nine Classics in Southeastern Archaeology volumes based on Moores investigations along the waterways of eastern North America This oversized reprint volume presents original materials from Moores northernmost expeditions conducted in the early 1900s as he surveyed areas of potential archaeological interest in the southeastern United States Some of the sites he found were later targeted for major excavations during the days of the WPACCC Many National Register Historic Sites are today located along the rivers he explored in this work In many cases however Moores report documents sites since destroyed by river action or by lake impoundments behind hydroelectric dams or by lootersAs with all of Moores other investigations his thorough documentation and collaboration with other scholars advanced understanding of aboriginal peoples and fueled debate among the experts For instance more than 296 burials were recovered from Indian Knoll on the Green River in Kentucky Some graves included ceremonially killed artifacts dogs buried with both adults and children and exotic materials leading to speculations concerning origins usage and trade networks Stone box graves were widespread and somewhat exclusive to this area giving rise to early assumptions regarding kinship between scattered modern Indian tribesRichard Polhemus has compiled a comprehensive inventory of Moores work in Tennessee Alabama Mississippi and Kentucky and written a concise introduction to place the work in context In so doing he has made available to contemporary scholars of history archaeology and anthropology a trove of resource material on one of the most archaeologically rich and artifactdiverse regions in the nation
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A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 recalls an era when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town in America Railroad companies employed over a million workers on the trains and along the tracks Everything moved by rail travelers mail and freightwhether a massive electric generator or a childs bicycleRichard C Carpenters handdrawn color maps recapture the precise details the various trunk and ancillary railroad passenger lines that served thousands of towns longsince demolished steam locomotive and manual signal tower installations towns that functioned solely as places where crews changed over track pans coaling stations tunnels bridges and viaducts and other railspecific sitesThe third and largest volume in this acclaimed series includes 276 maps and drawings and focuses on Indiana Lower Michigan and Ohio These states could be called the crossroads of the national railroad network where eastwest transcontinental lines crossed northsouth interregional lines Carpenter depicts the major rail centers of Indianapolis Gary Detroit Toledo Cleveland and Chicago as well as every town and rail junction from Mackinaw City Michigan to Tell City Indiana
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A Railroad Atlas of the United States in 1946 recalls an era when steam locomotives were still king and passenger trains stopped at nearly every town in America Railroad companies employed over a million workers on the trains and along the tracks Everything moved by rail travelers mail and freightwhether a massive electric generator or a childs bicycleRichard C Carpenters handdrawn color maps recapture the precise details the various trunk and ancillary railroad passenger lines that served thousands of towns longsince demolished steam locomotive and manual signal tower installations towns that functioned solely as places where crews changed over track pans coaling stations tunnels bridges and viaducts and other railspecific sitesThe third and largest volume in this acclaimed series includes 276 maps and drawings and focuses on Indiana Lower Michigan and Ohio These states could be called the crossroads of the national railroad network where eastwest transcontinental lines crossed northsouth interregional lines Carpenter depicts the major rail centers of Indianapolis Gary Detroit Toledo Cleveland and Chicago as well as every town and rail junction from Mackinaw City Michigan to Tell City Indiana
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The death of her father begins Dorothy Weils search for what causes the familys spinning of in all directions like the pieces of Chaos She embarks on a river odyssey traveling the Ohio Missouri and Mississippi Rivers by steamboat towboat and even an oldfashioned flatboat The river brings her family back as she records the stories of her fellow river rats steamboat veterans deckhands captains and cooksThe River Home takes the reader into a world few ever glimpse that of Americas riverboats In the fastpaced narrative with incisive characterizations and dialogue the author introduces us to this vivid milieu and a gallery of fascinating people We meet her father a wild river man from the Kentucky hills her mother a proper girl from a Cincinnati Dutch clan and her brother a fourthgeneration river man as well as the artists and academics she meets in her adult life Weils voice is clear and wry as well as poetic bringing out both the sadness and joys of a family torn by mismatched backgrounds Her themes speak to all the confusion brought by family conflict the strength of family love no matter how troubled the relationships the mortality we all face the importance of where we come from and where we go
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This memoir of World War II written by Edward C Arn an infantry captain who served in Company F 2nd Battalion 30th Infantry Division is a valuable addition to military history and social history Arn takes readers on a wartime journey with him in the European Theatre of Operations through a clear and honest account of combat from the viewpoint of a sensitive and acute civilian in uniform Arn describes his life during the Great Depression his motivation to volunteer his stateside basic training and his role as an infantry instructor Assigned overseas as a replacement a few weeks after the DDay invasion of Normandy Arn joined the 30th Division a former National Guard unit partially from Tennessee nicknamed Old Hickory in honor of President Andrew Jackson Arn entered combat and proved his worth in the hedgerows of Normandy the Battle of Mortain the push through northern France and the Netherlands the Battle of the Buldge the Ardennes Campaign and the invasion of the German heartland to the Elbe River During his sixteen months on the front lines Arn underwent a transformation from an apprehensive novice into a battletested veteran
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It is my honor to introduce these pagesso gravelly so straggly so hopeful bright and truenbsp Elizabeth Gilbert When she was seven Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in their native Syria settling in Detroit Bullied in school and caught between the world of her traditional family and her tough American classmates she rebelled earlyElias moved to New York City to become a musician and kept herself afloat with an uncommon talent for cutting hair At the height of the punk movement life on the Lower East Side was full of adventure creative inspiration and temptation Eventually Eliass passionate affairs with lovers of both sexes went awry her more than occasional drug use turned to addiction and she found herself living on the streetsbetween her visits to jailThis debut memoir charts four decades of a life lived in the moment a path from harrowing loss and darkness to a place of peace and redemption Eliass wit and lack of selfpity in the face of her extreme highs and lows make Harley Loco a powerful read thats sure to appeal to fans of Patti Smith Augusten Burroughs and Eleanor Henderson
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Born in Transylvania in 1899 Bella Spewack arrived on the streets of New Yorks Lower East Side when she was three At twentytwo while working as a reporter with her husband in Europe she wrote a memoir of her childhood that was never published More than seventy years later the publication of Streets recovers a remarkable voice and revivifies a lost worldIn her critically acclaimed writing Bella describes the sights sounds and characters of urban Jewish immigrant life after the turn of the century Witty streetsmart and unsentimental Bella was a genuine American heroine who went on to become a celebrated author Booklist comments The book provides a startling cleareyed look at the difficult life millions endured
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The Ordnance Survey Memoirs are a uniquely detailed source for the history of the northern half of Ireland immediately before the Great Famine They were written in the 1830s to accompany the Ordnance Survey maps but were not published at the time In these new editions they act as a 19th century Domesday book and are essential to the understanding of the cultural heritage of their communities They document the landscape and situation buildings and antiquities landholdings and population and employment and livelihood of the parishes This volume contains the Memoirs for the parishes of Aghanloo Dunboe and Magilligan a coastal region in the lower Roe Valley of county Londonderry which includes the important seat of Down Hill
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When his captain was killed during the Battle of Perryville John Calvin Hartzell was made commander of Company H 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry He led his men during the Battle of Chickamauga the siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Missionary Ridge Edited and introduced by Charles Switzer Ohio Volunteer The Childhood and Civil War Memoirs of Captain John Calvin Hartzell OVI documents military strategy the life of the common soldier the intense excitement and terror of battle and the wretchedness of the wounded Hartzells family implored him to set down his life story including his experiences in the Civil War from 1862 to 1866 Hartzell did so diligently taking more than two years to complete his manuscript The memoir reveals a remarkable memory for vivid details the ability to see larger and more philosophical perspectives and a humorous outlook that helped him bear the unbearable He also depicted the changing rural economy the assimilation of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the transformations wrought by coal mining and the iron industry Hartzell felt individualism was threatened by the Industrial Revolution and the cruelties of the war He found his faith in humanity affirmedand the dramatic tension in his memoir resolvedwhen 136000 Union soldiers reenlisted and assured victory for the North The common soldier he wrote was loyal to the core
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When his captain was killed during the Battle of Perryville John Calvin Hartzell was made commander of Company H 105th Ohio Volunteer Infantry He led his men during the Battle of Chickamauga the siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Missionary Ridge Edited and introduced by Charles Switzer Ohio Volunteer The Childhood and Civil War Memoirs of Captain John Calvin Hartzell OVI documents military strategy the life of the common soldier the intense excitement and terror of battle and the wretchedness of the wounded Hartzells family implored him to set down his life story including his experiences in the Civil War from 1862 to 1866 Hartzell did so diligently taking more than two years to complete his manuscript The memoir reveals a remarkable memory for vivid details the ability to see larger and more philosophical perspectives and a humorous outlook that helped him bear the unbearable He also depicted the changing rural economy the assimilation of the Pennsylvania Dutch and the transformations wrought by coal mining and the iron industry Hartzell felt individualism was threatened by the Industrial Revolution and the cruelties of the war He found his faith in humanity affirmedand the dramatic tension in his memoir resolvedwhen 136000 Union soldiers reenlisted and assured victory for the North The common soldier he wrote was loyal to the core
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Erastus Winters was born in Cincinnati in 1843 In 1862 he enlisted in Company K of the 50th Ohio Volunteer Infantry which was organized at Camp Dennison near Cincinnati and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel J R Taylor The regiment was attached to 34th Brigade 10th Division Army of the Ohio In straightforward and measured prose Winters describes his Civil War experiences from camp life to pitched battles to prison The 50th saw early action at the Battle of Perryville Kentucky and later joined General Shermans Atlanta Campaign In 1864 Winters was captured at the Battle of Franklin Tennessee and spent the remaining months of the war at the notorious Cahaba Prison in Alabama Having survived the war he nearly perished on his way back to Ohio when the steamboat on which he and hundreds of other paroled prisoners were travelling the Sultana exploded and sank near Memphis It was among the worst naval disasters in American history with over 1700 souls lost Winters was not a remarkable soldier neither gallant officer or daring hero but he offers in his memoir the Civil War that an average infantry soldier experienced fear courage death humor comaraderie and ultimately a lifelong sense of pride Until he died in 1925 Winters remained active in the Union veterans organization the Grand Army of the Republic and though decades removed the Civil War was never far from him
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