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Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers of Barbour County, West Virginia

By: John W. Shaffer

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Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers of Barbour County, West Virginia

By: John W. Shaffer

Following the passage of the Confederate Ordinance of Secession in April 1861, pro-Union Virginians met in Wheeling and began the process that would lead to the formation of West Virginia as a separate state. Despite the new state's allegiance to the North, the population of West Virginia remained divided in its loyalties, as author John W. Shaffer has described in his other book, "Barbour County, A Clash of Loyalties: A Border County in the Civil War." In his latest effort, "Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers," Mr. Shaffer enumerates over 1,000 individuals who comprised the fractious community of Barbour County. Using official military records, the 1860 U.S. federal census, and a variety of other primary and secondary sources, the author lists 718 Union and 528 Confederate soldiers and sympathizers from Barbour County. These individuals are arranged by army and thereunder alphabetically. For each we learn the military unit (except for sympathizers), dates of service, duties, date of birth, names of parents, postwar occupation and other activities, and date of death. Mr. Shaffer's Introduction describes the background of the Civil War in Barbour County, while the Appendices specify the Union and Confederate units and military engagements in which Barbour citizens fought.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806352647

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9780806352640

Family and Farm

Agrarian Change and Household Organization in the Loire Valley, 1500-1900

By: John W. Shaffer

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Agrarian Change and Household Organization in the Loire Valley, 1500-1900

By: John W. Shaffer

Family and Farm is the history of the communautes, the large patriarchal households of central France, from the close of the medieval era to the nineteenth century. These households were unique in that they often included as many as twenty members, holding property in common. Far from having roots in any cultural bias or folkloric tradition, the communautes were organized to enable individual families to meet the demands imposed by the social, economic, and physical environments in which they lived. The book examines household composition, the role of kinship, inheritance and successive strategies, and the nature of interpersonal relations. The period covered by the study includes the collapse of feudalism, the rise of the modern state, the French revolution, and the emergence of agrarian capitalism. Each crisis posed fundamental problems of survival for peasant families, and the organization of households constituted a crucial means by which that survival was ensured.

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278

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SUNY Press

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0873955625

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9780873955621

Blood on the Boulders

The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97

By: Diego de Vargas,John L. Kessell,Rick Hendricks

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The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97

By: Diego de Vargas,John L. Kessell,Rick Hendricks

Having retaken Santa Fe by force of arms late in 1693, Diego de Vargas faces unrelenting challenges, waging active warfare against defiant Pueblo Indian resisters while maintaining peace with Pueblo allies; providing homes, food, and supplies for 1,500 unsure colonists; and bidding unceasingly for greater support from viceregal authorities in Mexico City. At the head of combined units of Spanish and Pueblo fighting men, the governor in 1694 leads repeated assaults on castle-like fortified sites. Through combat, prisoner exchange, and negotiation, he reestablishes the kingdom. Franciscans reopen some of the missions. Vargas founds the villa of Santa Cruz de la Cañada. Pueblos north and west of Santa Fe rebel again in 1696; wearily, Vargas reports more blood on the boulders. Through The Journals of don Diego de Vargas, translated from official and private correspondence, we are drawn back, through conflict and compromise, into New Mexico's formative era.

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UNM Press

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0826318673

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9780826318671

Professionalizing Medicine

James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care

By: John M. Harris Jr.

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Professionalizing Medicine

James Reeves and the Choices That Shaped American Health Care

By: John M. Harris Jr.

This biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, the revolution in laboratory medicine, and the explosive growth of phony cures. It recounts the human side of medicine as well, including the management of untreatable diseases and the complex politics of medical practice and professional organizing. Reeves' life provides a reminder that while politics, economics, and science drive the societal trajectory of modern health care, moral decisions often determine its path.

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245

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McFarland

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1476676364

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A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia

By: John Walter Wayland

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A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia

By: John Walter Wayland

Reprint of the 2d, augm. ed., 1969, published by Shenandoah Pub. House, Strasburg, Va.

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080638011X

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Book's by John W. Shaffer

Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers of Barbour County, West Virginia

Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers of Barbour County, West Virginia

Family and Farm

Family and Farm

Blood on the Boulders

Blood on the Boulders

Professionalizing Medicine

Professionalizing Medicine

A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia

A History of Shenandoah County, Virginia

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