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From Home Guards to Heroes

The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community

By: Dennis W. Brandt

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From Home Guards to Heroes

The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community

By: Dennis W. Brandt

The soldiers of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry fought in the Overland campaign under Grant and in the Shenandoah valley under Sheridan, notably at the Battle of Monocacy. But as Dennis Brandt reveals in From Home Guards to Heroes, their real story takes place beyond the battlefield. The 87th drew its men from the Scotch-Irish and German populations of York and Adams counties in south-central Pennsylvania—a region with closer ties to Baltimore than to Philadelphia—where some citizens shared Marylanders’ southern views on race while others aided the Underground Railroad. Brandt’s unique regimental history investigates why these “boys from York” enlisted and why some deserted, the ways in which soldiers reflected their home communities, and the area’s attitudes toward the war both before and after hostilities broke out. Brandt takes a humanistic approach to the Civil War, revealing the more personal aspects of the struggle in a book that focuses on the soldiers themselves. Using their own words to describe action both on and off the battlefield, he sheds light on the lives of ordinary men: the comparative values of farm and city boys, their motives and concerns, the effect of battle on soldiers and their families, and the suffering that veterans took to the grave. Brandt also looks at soldiers’ racial views, illuminating their deepest worries about the war, and at community politics and problems of discipline surrounding this ideologically divided unit. Grounded in more than a decade of research into nearly two thousand military records, this is one of the few regimental histories based on more than one thousand pension records for the entire regiment, plus nearly eight hundred additional record sets for other area soldiers. Brandt tapped regional newspapers and a cache of unpublished letters and diaries—some from private collections not previously known—to provide an invaluable account of Civil War sensibilities in a northern area bordering a slave state. From Home Guards to Heroes is a book about war in which humanity rather than troop movement takes center stage. Engagingly written for a wide audience and meticulously researched, it offers a distinctive image of a community and the intimate lives of the men it sent off to fight—and a story that will intrigue any Civil War aficionado.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826265421

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Pathway to Hell

A Tragedy of the American Civil War

By: Dennis W. Brandt

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Pathway to Hell

A Tragedy of the American Civil War

By: Dennis W. Brandt

Shell shock, battle fatigue, posttraumatic stress disorder, lack of moral courage: different terms for the same mental condition, formal names that change with observed circumstances and whenever experts feel prompted to coin a more suitable descriptive term for the shredding of the human spirit. Although the specter of psychological dysfunction has marched alongside all soldiers in all wars, always at the ready to ravish minds, rarely is it discussed when the topic is America’s greatest conflict, the Civil War. Yet mind-destroying terror was as present at Gettysburg and Antietam as in Vietnam and today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drawing almost exclusively from extensive primary accounts, Dennis W. Brandt presents a detailed case study of mental stress that is exceptional in the vast literature of the American Civil War. Pathway to Hell offers sobering insight into the horrors that war wreaked upon one young man and illuminates the psychological aspect of the War Between the States.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803228244

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9780803228245

The Art of Invective

Selected Non-Fiction 1953-1994

By: Dennis Potter

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The Art of Invective

Selected Non-Fiction 1953-1994

By: Dennis Potter

Dennis Potter (1935-94) was Britain’s leading television dramatist for almost thirty years and remains an inspiration to today’s programme makers as a result of such ground-breaking work as Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills and The Singing Detective. But he also engaged with his audience through reviews, journalism, interviews, broadcasts and speeches. The Art of Invective, the first collection of its kind, brings together some of his finest non-fiction work. Published to mark 80 years since Potter’s birth, this book includes his merciless television columns, penetrating literary criticism and angry writings on class and politics, as well as his sketches for Sixties satire shows including That Was the Week That Was. From Frost-Nixon to Coronation Street, David Hare to Doctor Who, Orwell to Emu, this collection shows Potter’s distinctive voice at its entertaining, thought-provoking and uncompromising best.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783197021

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9781783197026

Pathway to Hell

A Tragedy of the American Civil War

By: Dennis W. Brandt

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A Tragedy of the American Civil War

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Shattering the Truth

The Slandering of Abraham Lincoln

By: Dennis W. Brandt

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Shattering the Truth

The Slandering of Abraham Lincoln

By: Dennis W. Brandt

Point by historical point and with strong evidence in support, Dennis W. Brandt takes on Thomas J. DiLorenzo and his historically outrageous view of Abraham Lincoln.

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Booksurge Publishing

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1439229325

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From Home Guards to Heroes

The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community

By: Dennis W. Brandt

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The 87th Pennsylvania and Its Civil War Community

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From Home Guards to Heroes

From Home Guards to Heroes

Pathway to Hell

Pathway to Hell

The Art of Invective

The Art of Invective

Pathway to Hell

Pathway to Hell

Shattering the Truth

Shattering the Truth

From Home Guards to Heroes

From Home Guards to Heroes

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