A Field Guide to Antietam

A Field Guide to Antietam
Author: Carol Reardon
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2016-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469630214

The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, in its aftermath, President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous Emancipation Proclamation. In this engaging, easy-to-use guide, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler allow visitors to understand this crucial Civil War battle in fine detail. Abundantly illustrated with maps and historical and modern photographs, A Field Guide to Antietam explores twenty-one sites on and near the battlefield where significant action occurred. Combining crisp narrative and rich historical context, each stop in the book is structured around the following questions: *What happened here? *Who fought here? *Who commanded here? *Who fell here? *Who lived here? *How did participants remember the events? With accessible presentation and fresh interpretations of primary and secondary evidence, this is an absolutely essential guide to Antietam and its lasting legacy.

A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition Expanded Ebook

A Field Guide to Gettysburg, Second Edition Expanded Ebook
Author: Carol Reardon
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2017-03-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469633353

This special enhanced ebook edition to the newly updated A Field Guide to Gettysburg will lead visitors to every important site across the battlefield and also give them ways to envision the action and empathize with the soldiers involved and the local people into whose lives and lands the battle intruded.. Both Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler are themselves experienced guides who understand what visitors to Gettysburg are interested in, but they also bring the unique perspectives of a scholar and a former army officer. Divided into three day-long tours, this newly improved and expanded edition offers important historical background and context for the reader while providing answers to six key questions: What happened here? Who fought here? Who commanded here? Who fell here? Who lived here? And what did the participants have to say about it later? With new stops, maps, soldier vignettes, and illustrations, the enhanced e-book edition of A Field Guide to Gettysburg adds more human stories to an already impressive work that remains the most comprehensive guide to the events and history of this pivotal battle of the Civil War.

A Field Guide to Gettysburg

A Field Guide to Gettysburg
Author: Carol Reardon
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2013-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469608189

In this lively guide to the Gettysburg battlefield, Carol Reardon and Tom Vossler invite readers to participate in a tour of this hallowed ground. Ideal for carrying on trips through the park as well as for the armchair historian, this book includes comprehensive maps and deft descriptions of the action that situate visitors in time and place. Crisp narratives introduce key figures and events, and eye-opening vignettes help readers more fully comprehend the import of what happened and why. A wide variety of contemporary and postwar source materials offer colorful stories and present interesting interpretations that have shaped--or reshaped--our understanding of Gettysburg today. Each stop addresses the following: What happened here? Who fought here? Who commanded here? Who fell here? Who lived here? How did participants remember this event?

A Field Guide for Civil War Explosive Ordnance

A Field Guide for Civil War Explosive Ordnance
Author: John D. Bartleson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1972
Genre: United States
ISBN:

"The intent of this manual is provide the EOD technician with an identification guide for field use. Further, it will serve as a basic reference test for Civil War ordnance data, standard terminology, projectile design, and fuze operation. It is the only known publication of its kind that displays radiographs showing interior construction of projectiles for the effective removal of the main filler"--Foreword.

The Ghost Hunter's Field Guide

The Ghost Hunter's Field Guide
Author: Rich Newman
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2014-05-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738728306

The Ghost Hunter's Field Guide features over 1,000 haunted places around the country in all fifty states that you can investigate yourself. Experience ghostly activity at battlefields, theaters, saloons, hotels, museums, resorts, parks, and other spooky sites—all of which are completely safe and accessible. From Alabama to Wyoming, you'll find out where to go to glimpse the unquiet spirits of Civil War soldiers, plantation slaves, criminals, and other entities. This alphabetized reference guide features over 100 photos and, for each location, includes the fascinating tales behind the haunting. Flip to your state to see what kind of paranormal phenomena commonly occur at each site: apparitions, shadow shapes, phantom sounds and scents, residual hauntings, psychokinetic activity, and more. Ford's Theatre The Whaley House Museum The Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Alcatraz Island The Queen Mary The Bell Witch Cave

Eastern Pennsylvania All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide

Eastern Pennsylvania All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide
Author: Sportsman's Connection
Publisher: Sportsman's Connection
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1885010761

Sportsman's Connection's Eastern Pennsylvania All-Outdoors Atlas & Field Guide contains maps created at twice the scale of other road atlases, which means double the detail. And while the maps are sure to be the finest quality you have ever used, the thing that makes this book unique is all the additional information. Your favorite outdoor activities including fishing lakes and streams, hunting, camping, hiking and biking,snowmobiling and off-roading, paddeling, skiing, golfing and wildlife viewing are covered in great depth with helpful editorial and extensive tables, which are all cross-referenced and indexed to the map pages in a way that's fun and easy to use.

Antietam Field Guide

Antietam Field Guide
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Antietam National Battlefield (Md.)
ISBN: 9781933763071

An illustrated guidebook and self-guided audio tour of the Antietam battlefield.