The First To Serve

The First To Serve
Author: Ron Guilmette
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2017-07-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 136595837X

The "First to Serve" is a historic work covering the first ten years of the nations oldest state police agency from 1865 to 1875. Alcohol was the genesis for the first state police force and the primary reason why several other New England states looked to establish state police forces during the second half of the nineteenth century. Journey back in time as Ron Guilmette chronicles the lives and Civil War service of these first state police officers. The First To Serve describes the first decade of the Massachusetts State Police and the hardships and political turmoil the first constables faced enforcing the first alcohol prohibition in the nation for three dollars a day.

William Francis Bartlett

William Francis Bartlett
Author: Richard A. Sauers
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2009-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786441461

Frank Bartlett was an indifferent student at Harvard when the Civil War began in 1861, but after he joined the Union army he quickly found that he had an aptitude for leadership and rose from captain to brevet major general by 1865. Over the course of the war he was wounded three times (one injury resulted in the loss of a leg), but he remained on active duty until he was captured in 1864. His political stance gained him some national fame after the war, but he struggled with repeated business stress until tuberculosis and other illnesses led to his early death at age 36.

The Civil War World of Herman Melville

The Civil War World of Herman Melville
Author: Stanton Garner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1993
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A detailed account of Herman Melville's life during the Civil War, as well as study of his war epic, Battle-Pieces.