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The Hero of Medfield
Excerpt from The Hero of Medfield: Containing the Journals and Letters of Allen Alonzo Kingsbury, of Medfield, Member of Co; H, Chelsen Volunteers, Mass; 1st Reg;, Who Was Killed by the Rebels Near Yorktown, April 26, 1862; Also, Notice of the Other Three Soldiers Belonging to the Same Com We learn also, that amidst all the hardships and deprivations of camp life, the calm, cool, deliberate determination of the soldiers is to put down rebellion, and restore peace and harmony again. We see the inveterate hatred which the soldiers cherish toward that wicked institution which is the principal cause of our difficulties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare ...
The Hero of Medfield
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The Hero of Medfield
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To the Gates of Richmond
This account of McClellan’s 1862 campaign is “a wonderful book” (Ken Burns) and “military history at its best” (The New York Times Book Review). From “the finest and most provocative Civil War historian writing today,” To the Gates of Richmond is the story of the one of the conflict’s bloodiest campaigns (Chicago Tribune). Of the 250,000 men who fought in it, only a fraction had ever been in battle before—and one in four was killed, wounded, or missing in action by the time the fighting ended. The operation was Gen. George McClellan’s grand scheme to march up the Virginia Peninsula and take the Confederate capital. For three months McClellan battled his way toward Richmond, but then Robert E. Lee took command of the Confederate forces. In seven days, Lee drove the cautious McClellan out, thereby changing the course, if not the outcome, of the war. “Deserves to be a classic.” —The Washington Post
Fresh Pond
The history of Fresh Pond Reservation—onetime summer retreat for wealthy Bostonians, center of the nineteenth-century ice industry, and stomping grounds for Harvard students—told through photographs, maps and plans, and stories. Fresh Pond Reservation, at the northwest edge of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been described as a “landscape loved to death.” Certainly it is a landscape that has been changed by its various uses over the years and one to which Cantabridgeans and Bostonians have felt an intense attachment. Henry James returned to it in his sixties, looking for “some echo of the dreams of youth,” feeling keenly “the pleasure of memory”; a Harvard student of the 1850s ...
