Howard Coffin

Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today's Vermont

Buch

Today, throughout Vermont, it is possible to identify hundreds and hundreds of Civil War-related sites. Throughout Vermont are soldier homes, halls where war meetings encouraged enlistments, churches where soldier funerals were held and abolitionists spoke, monuments to those who served, hospital sites, and homes where women gathered to make items for the soldiers. The Vermont State House is a virtual Civil War museum. A building survives in Woodstock where the war was administered. Cemeteries hold the gravestones of many of the 34,000 who fought. A field even exists where in 1803 a Quaker preacher heard a voice from above fortell a bloody wa… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-58157-318-3
EAN: 9781581573183
Produktnummer: 21956422
Verlag: Countryman Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 528 S.
Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.8 cm 590 g
Gewicht: 590

Über den Autor

Howard Coffin, former press secretary to U.S. senator Jim Jeffords, is the author of The Battered Stars, Full Duty, Guns Over the Champlain Valley, and Nine Months to Gettysburg. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont.