Samuel's Story: A Journey from Yorkshire to New Hampshire through the American Civil War
This book documents the life of the author's great, great uncle who grew up during 1832-47 in Hull, Yorkshire, England where his family was in the shipping business. Samuel was the family 'black sheep' and virtually no record concerning him was passed down. Employing various online genealogy services, government websites and numerous email contacts, the author spent two years tracking Samuel from Hull to Glasgow, across the sea to Massachusetts and through two marriages (the first to a 15 year-old girl and the second possibly making him a bigamist) to Manchester, New Hampshire. Samuel enlisted in the Union Army as an artilleryman in 1861 and…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4602-2383-3
- EAN: 9781460223833
- Produktnummer: 15416302
- Verlag: Friesenpr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 246 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 367 g
- Gewicht: 367
Über den Autor
Peter Cooper is a retired engineer with a background in research, who has had a life-long interest in history. His first book of historical research documented the life of his great, great-uncle and was titled Samuel's Story: A Journey from Yorkshire to New Hampshire through the American CivilWar. His next book was Bombs and Babies: A War Bride's Diary that described his mother'sday-to-day life in WW2 Britain. Both books were published by FriesenPress, in 2015 and 2017respectively. Both received good reviews from the Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards and the Whistler Independent Book Awards. Peter resides in Sidney, British Columbia....
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