Charles Henry Stanley Davis's Books

Early Families of Wallingford, Connecticut

By: Charles Henry Stanley Davis

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Early Families of Wallingford, Connecticut

By: Charles Henry Stanley Davis

Excerpted from Davis' History of Wallingford, Conn., this work treats some seventy early Wallingford families. Each family history commences with a paragraph on the origins and background of the earliest known settler and proceeds from there with a recitation of descents until all available data are either brought up to date or exhausted. The families treated in the work are as follows: Abernathy, Alling/Allen, Andrews, Atwater, Bartholomew, Beach, Beadles, Bellamy, Benham, Blakeslee, Bristol, Brockett, Bunnel, Carrington, Clark, Cook, Cowles/Coles, Culver, Curtis, Doolittle, Dutton, Fenn, Foot, Gaylord, Hall, Hart, Hitchcock, Holt, Hotchkiss, Hough, How, Hull, Humiston, Ives, Johnson, Jones, Kirkland, Lewis, Martin, Mattoon, Merriman, Miles, Mix, Moss, Munson, Noyes, Parker, Preston, Reynolds, Royce, Stanley, Street, Thompson, Thorp, Tuttle, Tyler, Whittelsey, and Wilcox. With a new index of 7,500 names.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

366

Publisher

Genealogical Publishing Com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0806308346

ISBN 13

9780806308340

Whirlwind and Storm

By: Charles E. Farnsworth

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Whirlwind and Storm

By: Charles E. Farnsworth

Whirlwind & Storm introduces us to the colorful and impetuous Lieutenant Colonel Charles Farnsworth, a Connecticut cavalryman in the Union Army. Farnsworth was fiery, ambitious, and bold, sometimes a little too bold for his own good---in combat, in business ventures, and in the river crossing that ended his life tragically early. Drawing from a rich and previously ignored trove of letters and diaries, Farnsworth's great-grandson and namesake, a military veteran himself, has done a marvelous job of bringing alive this officer in all his flawed glory." Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 and other books. "With excellent research and clear writing, Whirlwind & Storm paints an impartial, intriguing, and entertaining account of the author's privileged ancestor, who served heroically with the First Connecticut Cavalry battalion in the Civil War. Before, during, and after the war "Charlie" Farnsworth exuded those common human traits that so defined him: driven, disciplined, courageous, opportunistic, and passionate. Whirlwind & Storm adds an illuminating, original, and personal work to the collage of our great American heritage." Robert B. Angelovich, author of the forthcoming Riding for Uncle Samuel: The History of the First Connecticut Cavalry in the Civil War. "If you want to know what the Civil War was really like, this is the book for you: an intimate, personal portrait of the war experience and the people who lived it, giving the reader a firsthand view of its realities. It is meticulously researched, authoritatively documented, and gracefully written." William Bennett Turner, author of Figures of Speech: First Amendment Heroes and Villains. "Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Farnsworth of Norwich emerges here as a free-spirited and ambitious young cavalry officer, with unique and often irreverent views on the Civil War and its leaders. His wide experience in the war, including imprisonment in Richmond, is well-researched and very readably presented. I found it especially fun to follow Charlie's love life through this most enjoyable book." Vic Butsch, New London County (Connecticut) Civil War Round Table, Norwich Historical Society. An intimate look at a young Norwich, Connecticut cavalry officer---in war, love, and his attempts to strike it rich---and his fierce ambition to make his mark in the Civil War and early Reconstruction. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Farnsworth's letters and diaries form the cornerstone for this short biography about an adventurer who helped organize the First Connecticut Cavalry. The book covers "Charlie's" near-fatal shooting while searching for Confederate bushwhackers in Virginia, his protests against incompetent Union leadership, his capture and confinement in Richmond's notorious Libby Prison, his romantic entanglements, his political connections with President Lincoln that sent him south in early 1865, and his tragic struggle to make his mark in Georgia during the early years of Reconstruction.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

453

Publisher

iUniverse

Published Date

ISBN 10

149171963X

ISBN 13

9781491719633

The Argonauts of California

By: Charles Warren Haskins

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Argonauts of California

By: Charles Warren Haskins

The Argonauts of California being the reminiscences of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in early mining days.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

505

Publisher

Рипол Классик

ISBN 10

5518729227

ISBN 13

9785518729223

The New Unionism

Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation with a New Introduction

By: Charles C. Heckscher

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The New Unionism

Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation with a New Introduction

By: Charles C. Heckscher

In his visionary analysis, Charles Heckscher argues for "associational unionism," a model outside the tradition of American labor law. Rejecting the usual boundary between workers and management, Heckscher defines a genuinely new system of representation that encourages multilateral negotiation involving management, different groups of employees, and other interested parties, such as consumers or environmentalists. The New Unionism, a Twentieth Century Fund Book, was first published in 1988. This edition includes a new introduction by the author in which he reviews the significance of recent economic and political trends and addresses some of the criticisms of the concept of an associational union.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

338

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501725572

ISBN 13

9781501725579

From Arlington to Appomattox

Robert E. Lee’s Civil War Day by Day, 1861–1865

By: Charles R. Knight

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Arlington to Appomattox

Robert E. Lee’s Civil War Day by Day, 1861–1865

By: Charles R. Knight

“Brilliant . . . really gives one a sense of what it took to both lead and run an army in the Civil War. . . . Superb.” —Chris Kolakowski, author of The Virginia Campaigns: March–August 1862 In From Arlington to Appomattox, Charles Knight does for Robert E. Lee and students of the Civil War what E. B. Long’s Civil War Day by Day did for our understanding of the conflict as a whole. This is not another Lee biography, but it is every bit as valuable as one. We know Lee rode out to meet the survivors of Pickett’s Charge and accept blame for the defeat, that he tried to lead the Texas Brigade in a counterattack to save the day at the Wilderness, and took a tearful ride from Wilmer McLean’s house at Appomattox. But where was Lee and what was he doing when the spotlight of history failed to illuminate him? Focusing on what he was doing day by day offers an entirely different appreciation for Lee. Readers will come away with a fresh sense of his struggles, both personal and professional, and discover many things about Lee for the first time through his own correspondence and papers. From Arlington to Appomattox is a tremendous contribution to the literature of the Civil War. “Knight’s study will become the standard reference work on Lee’s daily wartime experiences.” —R. E. L. Krick, author of Staff Officers in Gray “A staggering work of scholarship.” —Jeffry D. Wert, author of A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee’s Triumph, 1862–1863 "A pleasure to read.” —Michael C. Hardy, author of General Lee’s Immortals “Keeps the reader engaged.” —Journal of America's Military Past

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

610

Publisher

Savas Beatie

Published Date

ISBN 10

161121503X

ISBN 13

9781611215038

The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 12: 1868-1870

By: Charles Dickens

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 12: 1868-1870

By: Charles Dickens

This final volume presents 1,151 letters, many previously unpublished or published only in part, for the years 1868 to Dickens's death from a stroke on 9 June 1870; also included is an Addenda of 235 letters belonging to earlier volumes, discovered since the publication of the first such collection in Volume 7, and a Cumulative Index of Correspondents for the entire edition. The volume begins with the final four months of Dickens's American tour of 75 readings, which had been conspicuously successful throughout, despite the appalling weather and his sufferings from "American" catarrh. The tour culminated on 18 April 1868 when the American Press held a dinner in his honour in New York. In July he rented Windsor Lodge, Peckham for Ellen Ternan, where she remained until after his death; he was to give two more English reading tours before his collapse at Preston on 22 April 1869. In early January 1869 he was elected President of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; and a dinner in his honour was given in St George's Hall, Liverpool. Between January and March 1870 he gave a series of Farewell readings in London, and on 31 March Edwin Drood, No. 1 was published, illustrated by Luke Fildes; it continued monthly until 31 August. Of the friends who died during this period, much the closest were the painter Daniel Maclise, to whom Dickens paid especial tribute at the Royal Academy Banquet of 30 April 1870; Mark Lemon, who died only 18 days before Dickens himself, and with whom he had a brief reconciliation after their bitter quarrel in 1858; and Chauncy Hare Townshend, who left him £2,000 to publish, as his Literary Executor, Religious Opinions of the Late Chauncy Hare Townshend, which appeared in November 1870.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

850

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0191590274

ISBN 13

9780191590276

Zero Degrees

Geographies of the Prime Meridian

By: Charles W. J. Withers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Zero Degrees

Geographies of the Prime Meridian

By: Charles W. J. Withers

Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0°, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian’s location in southeast London is not a simple legacy of Britain’s imperial past. Before the nineteenth century, more than twenty-five different prime meridians were in use around the world, including Paris, Beijing, Greenwich, Washington, and the location traditional in Europe since Ptolemy, the Canary Islands. Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved complex problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. Withers guides readers through the navigation and astronomy associated with diverse meridians and explains the problems that these cartographic lines both solved and created. He shows that as science and commerce became more global and as railway and telegraph networks tied the world closer together, the multiplicity of prime meridians led to ever greater confusion in the coordination of time and the geographical division of space. After a series of international scientific meetings, notably the 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, Greenwich emerged as the most pragmatic choice for a global prime meridian, though not unanimously or without acrimony. Even after 1884, other prime meridians remained in use for decades. As Zero Degrees shows, geographies of the prime meridian are a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of accurate measurement on a global scale, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

334

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0674088816

ISBN 13

9780674088818

Book's by Charles Henry Stanley Davis

Early Families of Wallingford, Connecticut

Early Families of Wallingford, Connecticut

Whirlwind and Storm

Whirlwind and Storm

The Argonauts of California

The Argonauts of California

The New Unionism

The New Unionism

From Arlington to Appomattox

From Arlington to Appomattox

The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 12: 1868-1870

The British Academy/The Pilgrim Edition of the Letters of Charles Dickens: Volume 12: 1868-1870

Zero Degrees

Zero Degrees

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email