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Brooklyn and the Civil War / E.A. Bud Livingston.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Livingston, E. A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History, Military--19th century.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Social conditions--19th century.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- From training soldiers at Fort Hamilton to building the Monitor, Brooklyn left its own mark on the Civil War.
- While Manhattan was the sire of many important Civil War events, Brooklyn also played an important part in the war. Henry Ward Beecher "auctioned off" slaves at the Plymouth Church, raising the money to free them. Walt Whitman reported news of the war in a Brooklyn paper and wrote some of his most famous works. At the same time, Brooklyn both grappled with and embraced unique challenges, from the arrival of new immigrants to the formation of one of the nation's first baseball teams. Local historian Bud Livingston crafts the portrait of Brooklyn in transition-shaped by the Civil War while also leaving its own mark on the course of the terrible conflict. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Geography
- General Description
- The People
- The Neighborhoods
- The Churches
- Walt Whitman
- The Newspapers
- Entertainment
- Industry
- Shipbuilding
- The Monitor
- The War Begins
- Forts Hamilton and Lafayette
- The Draft and the Draft Riots
- The Sanitary Fair of 1864
- The War Ends
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herman V. Ames Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1609496558
- 9781609496555
- OCLC:
- 784708367
- Publisher Number:
- 99948862894
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