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On August 26, 1861, one hundred volunteers met at Camp Wood and formed Company A. These men, for the most part, were well educated and left to us a series of letters to families and friends, diaries, letters to their local newspapers, official reports, and talks they gave after the war at reunions. Their correspondence differs from most others in that they do not simply record the temperature and what they had to eat. The story the corresponde...

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Excerpt from Catalogue of Stars Near the Ecliptic, Observed at Markree During the Years 1848, 1849, and 1850, and Whose Places Are Supposed to Be Hitherto Unpublished, Vol. 1: Containing 14, 888 Stars The secondary design in attempting the somewhat laborious work which is commenced in the following catalogue was, to obtain an increased number of points, from whence, by ocular triangulation, stars to the twelfth magnitude inclusive, might be, ...

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Biography of Louis Trezevant Wigfall who, as United States Senator from Texas, did more than any other man to cause the disintegration of the Union, and as Confederate States Senator from Texas, did more than any other man to cause the collapse of the Confederacy.

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Excerpt from The Crisis, or an Attempt to Shew From Prophecy: Illustrated by the Signs of the Times, the Prospects and the Duties of the Church of Christ at the Present PeriodOccasionally discussed the subject, he determined to arrange his thoughts upon paper, and to reduce them to some tangible shape. As he advanced, he found his materials to increase, and the work to. Swell upon his hands, till, at last, it assumed the form in which it now a...

A myth has grown that there were no traitors during the period leading up to the American Civil War. Edward S. Cooper debunks that myth in this book. He provides documentation that officers on active duty in the army and navy of the United States secretly negotiated for positions in the Confederacy, surrendered their ships, forts, and posts to state authorities, conspired in the seizure of other forts, deserted their posts and advised their su...

This is the biography of a man who, by virtue of his excellent Civil War record, became President GrantOs Secretary of War only to fall willingly into the corruption of Washington society and of two wives who demanded social prominence.

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Excerpt from Richard Escott Nay, he said, filling the word with kindly apol ogy, I'm none for carping 't's ill work to natter at a man who is bringing out the best that's in him. But give us your best, may-be the story-books do good to them as won't read others, and I'm none for saying you can't teach people lessons there and give them good advice, - if so be that they don't miss it all and go on with the story. About the Publisher Forgotte...