[PDF] Under The Guns A Womans Reminiscences Of The Civil War eBook

Author : Annie Wittenmyer
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2014-03-12
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ISBN : 9781293807736

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Author : Annie Wittenmyer
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2015-02-15
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ISBN : 9781298029713

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Author : Annie Wittenmyer
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 2016-11-03
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ISBN : 9781519041609

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The remarkable book has been out of print for over a century and yet is one of the most intimate and compelling personal memoirs of the Civil War.Widow Annie Turner Wittenmyer spent the years of the American Civil War in the thick of exploding shells, shattered bodies, exhausted souls, and the great figures of the war. She was an advocate for better medical treatment and better diets for fighting men and personally took her cause to Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln.She held the hands and comforted many a wounded and dying solider from both sides and provided treatment to them alongside their doctors.She spares no detail and does not attempt to provide a history of the war. Her story is intimately human and will draw you in like few other memoirs.Julia Dent Grant was a friend with whom Wittenmyer spent time whenever Grant was at her husband's headquarters. She sat with Abraham Lincoln in his office at the White House discussing dietary issues when the telegram of Sheridan's victory in the Shenandoah arrived.With an introduction by Julia Grant, this book then opens with Wittenmyer's first meeting with General Grant. She has many stories of him here including how his 13-year-old son, Fred, rode the front lines with the General at Vicksburg daily.Wittenmyer spent the rest of her life as a social reformer and was friends with Margaret Sanger and many other luminaries of the temperance and suffragist movements.

Author : Elizabeth Lyle Saxon
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781508797951

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This is a memoir about the Civil War era written by a Southern woman who lived during the conflict. Here's an excerpt from the beginning:" In 1860 events crowded fast upon each other. I had a most singular experience in connection with the Chicago Zouaves led by young Ellsworth. They came to New York and challenged any company in America to drill with them. Crowds went out to see them every day, and it was on one of these occasions that Nell, my Boston friend, and I were standing watching them as they wheeled and charged, fired with their guns kneeling, lying or running. I was looking at the young commander very intently when suddenly a haze swept before my eyes, and, as if in a mirror, I saw him fall, shot dead. I gave a scream of horror, and my companion shook my arm—the vision was gone. He was alive and unhurt. I told what I saw, and declared positively that nothing could convince me he would not die a violent death. It will be remembered that he was shot early in the war at Alexandria, for taking down the Confederate flag over a hotel, Jackson, its proprietor, firing the fatal shot. Men sneer at such statements as this. My own impression founded on my own experience, is that all spirituality is as far as possible killed in children by their parents, owing to education and preconceived sentiments. We admit man is possessed of five senses, and if anything savoring of a higher or more subtle"

Author : Cornelia Peake McDonald
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
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Cornelia Peake McDonald kept a diary during the Civil War (1861- 1865) at her husband's request, but some entries were written between the lines of printed books due to a shortage of paper and other entries were lost. In 1875, she assembled her scattered notes and records of the war period into a blank book to leave to her children. The diary entries describe civilian life in Winchester, Va., occupation by Confederate troops prior to the 1st Manassas, her husband's war experiences, the Valley campaigns and occupation of Winchester and her home by Union troops, the death of her baby girl, the family's "refugee life" in Lexington, reports of battles elsewhere, and news of family and friends in the army.