Keep up good courage : a Yankee family and the Civil War : the correspondence of Cpl. Lewis Q. Smith, of Sandwich, New Hampshire, Fourteenth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, 1862-1865 /
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| Author / Creator: | Houston, Alan Fraser. |
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| Imprint: | Portsmouth, NH : Peter E. Randall Publisher, c2006. |
| Description: | xiv, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6287830 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Prologue to War
- 2. Duty in Maryland: Guarding the Potomac and the Northwestern Approaches to Washington City, October 30 to December 31, 1862
- 3. Death and Darkness at Home, January 1 to January 31, 1863
- 4. Gloom Continues: Duty on the Potomac and Winter Camp at Poolesville, Maryland, February 1 to February 28, 1863
- 5. Politics, Smallpox, Sapping, and Spring, March 1 to April 21, 1863
- 6. Washington City: Duty in the Union Capital, April 22 to June 30, 1863
- 7. Rebel Invasion of New Hampshire and Union Successes, July 1 to July 31, 1863
- 8. More Guard Duty in the Capital, August 1 to October 31, 1863
- 9. The Holidays and Year's End, November 1 to December 31, 1863
- 10. Washington and Harpers Ferry, January 1 to February 28, 1864
- 11. Battle with Ballots and Duty at the Crescent City, March 1 to June 6, 1864
- 12. Searching for the Enemy, Affair at Bayou Grossetete, and Return to Washington, June 7 to July 31, 1864
- 13. Battles of Third Winchester (or Opequon Creek) and Fisher's Hill, August 1 to October 17, 1864
- 14. Battle of Cedar Creek: Eve of Near Defeat and Final Victory, October 18 to December 31, 1864
- 15. The New Year 1865: Ordered to Georgia and War's End, January 1 to July 27, 1865
- Epilogue: Lewis Q. Smith, Post-Civil War
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author