Charles H Smith M E's Books

The Libby Family in America, 1602-1881

By: Charles Thornton Libby

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Libby Family in America, 1602-1881

By: Charles Thornton Libby

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

710

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3385483484

ISBN 13

9783385483484

Sheffield Village

By: Charles E. Herdendorf

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Village of Sheffield was founded on the Lake Erie plain and a sandy ridge of glacial Lake Warren. Black River and French Creek course through rich farmlands, once home to Archaic and Woodland Indians. Originally surveyed as Township 7 of Range 17 in the Connecticut Western Reserve, hearty pioneers arrived here in 1815 from the Berkshire Mountains of New England, naming their settlement Sheffield after their Massachusetts town. In the mid-1800s, another wave of immigrants arrived from Bavaria, adding cultural richness to the community. In 1894, industrialist Tom Johnson constructed giant steel mills on the west side of the river, and Sheffield Village eventually broke away, choosing to retain its agrarian identity. Today Sheffield Village is in transition to a modern residential/commercial community but keeps much of its natural character by virtue of parklands along stream valleys. Fortunately, fine examples of homestead architecture have been preserved throughout the village.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

132

Publisher

Arcadia Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0738583332

ISBN 13

9780738583334

Will You Miss Me when I'm Gone?

The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music

By: Mark Zwonitzer,Charles Hirshberg

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Will You Miss Me when I'm Gone?

The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music

By: Mark Zwonitzer,Charles Hirshberg

Traces the bluegrass country music achievements of the Carter family, from their discovery by a New York record maker to their rise to stardom and eventual breakup, noting their influence on the careers of top performers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

442

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

0684857634

ISBN 13

9780684857633

Valley Thunder

The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign May, 1864

By: Charles R. Knight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Valley Thunder

The Battle of New Market and the Opening of the Shenandoah Valley Campaign May, 1864

By: Charles R. Knight

An “exciting and informative” account of the Civil War battle that opened the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, with illustrations included (Lone Star Book Review). Charles Knight’s Valley Thunder is the first full-length account in decades to examine the combat at New Market on May 15, 1864 that opened the pivotal Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who set in motion the wide-ranging operation to subjugate the South in 1864, intended to attack on multiple fronts so the Confederacy could no longer “take advantage of interior lines.” A key to success in the Eastern Theater was control of the Shenandoah Valley, an agriculturally abundant region that helped feed Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. Grant tasked Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, a German immigrant with a mixed fighting record, and a motley collection of units numbering some 10,000 men to clear the Valley and threaten Lee’s left flank. Opposing Sigel was Maj. Gen. (and former US Vice President) John C. Breckinridge, who assembled a scratch command to repulse the Federals. Included in his 4,500-man army were Virginia Military Institute cadets under the direction of Lt. Col. Scott Ship, who’d marched eighty miles in four days to fight Sigel. When the armies faced off at New Market, Breckinridge told the cadets, “Gentlemen, I trust I will not need your services today; but if I do, I know you will do your duty.” The sharp fighting seesawed back and forth during a drenching rainstorm, and wasn’t concluded until the cadets were inserted into the battle line to repulse a Federal attack and launch one of their own. The Union forces were driven from the Valley, but would return, reinforced and under new leadership, within a month. Before being repulsed, they would march over the field at New Market and capture Staunton, burn VMI in Lexington (partly in retaliation for the cadets’ participation at New Market), and very nearly capture Lynchburg. Operations in the Valley on a much larger scale that summer would permanently sweep the Confederates from the “Bread Basket of the Confederacy.” Valley Thunder is based on years of primary research and a firsthand appreciation of the battlefield terrain. Knight’s objective approach includes a detailed examination of the complex prelude leading up to the battle, and his entertaining prose introduces soldiers, civilians, and politicians who found themselves swept up in one of the war’s most gripping engagements.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

326

Publisher

Savas Beatie

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611210542

ISBN 13

9781611210545

Book's by Charles H Smith M E

The Libby Family in America, 1602-1881

The Libby Family in America, 1602-1881

Sheffield Village

Sheffield Village

Will You Miss Me when I'm Gone?

Will You Miss Me when I'm Gone?

Valley Thunder

Valley Thunder

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email