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Cavalry units from Midwestern states remain largely absent from Civil War literature, and what little has been written largely overlooks the individual men who served. The Fifth Illinois Cavalry has thus remained obscure despite participating in some of the most important campaigns in Arkansas and Mississippi. In this pioneering examination of that understudied regiment, Rhonda M. Kohl offers the only modern, comprehensive analysis of a southern Illinois regiment during the Civil War and combines well-documented military history with a cultural analysis of the men who served in the Fifth Illinois. The regiment’s history unfolds around major events in the Western Theater from 1861 to Septem...
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Sergeant Jacob Brenner is a twenty-five year veteran of the Indianapolis Police Department. Working narcotics and vice for much of his career, Brenner had always lived on the dangerous edge of life until he met Carla Waltz. A niece to wealthy banker and businessman, William Skiles, Brenner has finally found someone who he loves and more importantly, trusts. On the eve of his proposing marriage, Carla is suddenly killed. The coroner rules her death accidental, but Brenner suspects differently. Why is his investigation met with resistance from the family and the Department? Another death investigation on the Skiles estate leads Brenner to an unexpected meeting with the CIA. Brenner is recruite...
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Chief among its contents we find abstracts of land grants, court records, conveyances, births, deaths, marriages, wills, petitions, military records (including a list of North Carolina Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line, 1775-1782), licenses, and oaths. The abstracts derive from records now located in the state archives and from the public records of the following present-day counties of the Old Albemarle region: Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Halifax, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington, and the Virginia counties of Surry and Isle of Wight.
Some vols., 1920-1949, contain collections of papers according to subject.
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