Industry and infantry : the Civil War in western Pennsylvania / edited by Brian Butko and Nicholas P. Ciotola.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butko, Brian.

Ciotola, Nicholas P.

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Social aspects.

Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 125 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First American paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, [2003]

Summary:

Some of the Most Fascinating -- and Least Known -- Stories of the Civil War unfolded in Western Pennsylvania. This collection of articles, culled from eight decades of Western Pennsylvania History magazine, encompasses a broad and compelling array of topics, from the local vote in the election of 1860 to the Pittsburgh Sanitary Fair; from an infantryman's account of combat to the fabrication of the war's largest and most powerful cannons; from New Castle's response to a fiery postwar soldiers' convention. The Civil War was fueled by munitions and thousands of soldiers from Western Pennsylvania. This volume recalls those industries and the region's people, and how their lives were changed.

Contents:

1 Western Pennsylvania and the Election of 1860 / Joseph P. Wolstoncraft 1

2 New Castle in 1860-61: A Community Response to a War Crisis / Bingham Duncan 12

3 Camp Wilkins, Military Post, 1861 / Joseph A. Borkowski 22

4 General James Scott Negley / Alfred P. James 32

5 A Bucktail Voice: Civil War Correspondence of Private Cordello Collins / Edited by Mark Reinsberg 48

6 Some Aspects of Pittsburgh's Industrial Contributions to the Civil War / Louis Vaira 60

7 The Sanitary Fair / Dorothy Daniel 70

8 The Pittsburgh Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention, 25-26 September 1866 / Charles D. Cashdollar 88.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0936340118

OCLC:

51867930