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What My Dad's Death from Als Taught Me
Death as in money can cause loved ones to lose focus on the one needing peace and continuity the most. In this book a father yet again offers lessons of grace and dignity while a family struggles internally with one another and themselves not realizing their focus should be on the loved one they are losing and those remaining. Several years later, forgiveness enters and embraces the author. She only hopes others can learn from her families mistakes and misunderstandings.
War on the Waters
Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exports. Meanwhile, the Confederate navy, dwarfed by its giant adversary, demonstrated daring and military innovation. Commerce raid...
Union Jacks
Historians have given a great deal of attention to the lives and experiences of Civil War soldiers, but surprisingly little is known about navy sailors who participated in the conflict. Michael J. Bennett remedies the longstanding neglect of Civil War seamen in this comprehensive assessment of the experience of common Union sailors from 1861 to 1865. To resurrect the voices of the "Union Jacks," Bennett combed sailors' diaries, letters, and journals. He finds that the sailors differed from their counterparts in the army in many ways. They tended to be a rougher bunch of men than the regular soldiers, drinking and fighting excessively. Those who were not foreign-born, escaped slaves, or unemp...
Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800
An extensive work, this is based on original records, mainly of the Congregational and Episcopal churches of the period 1651-1800. About 30,000 marriages are recorded, arranged by town and thereunder by church, and they give the full names of the brides and grooms, and the marriage dates. Each of the seven volumes is indexed.
From Cape Charles to Cape Fear
Examines naval logistics, tactics, and strategy employed by the Union blockade off the Atlantic coast of the Confederacy.
Crossroads of Freedom
McPherson brilliantly weaves strands of diplomatic, political, and military history into a compact, swift-moving narrative that shows why America's bloodiest Civil War day was, indeed, a turning point in history. Illustrations.
