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Utah’S Role In Protecting The Mormon Trail During The Civil War, Kenneth L. Alford Ph.D.
Utah’S Role In Protecting The Mormon Trail During The Civil War, Kenneth L. Alford Ph.D.
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This chapter (from the 2015 book “Far Away in the West: Reflections on the Mormon Pioneer Trail” published by the Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center) sets the stage for Utah Territory’s role protecting the Mormon Trail during the Civil War by outlining the Utah War (1857-1858). This essay begins by comparing and contracting Washington, DC’s wartime interest in the trail with that of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Utah Territory. The essay then outlines the changing parties who were responsible for the trail between 1861 and 1865 – the U.S. Army (spring-summer 1861), no one …
Henry Wirz And The Tragedy Of Andersonville: A Question Of Responsibility, Albert Winkler
Henry Wirz And The Tragedy Of Andersonville: A Question Of Responsibility, Albert Winkler
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Henry Wirz was the most controversial Swiss American. Born in Zurich, Wirz migrated to the United States and joined the Confederacy at the outbreak of the Civil War. He was assigned to oversee the military prison at Andersonville, Georgia, which had a very high death rate. Following the war, Wirz was arrested and tried for war crimes. The trial was a travesty of justice. Many of his supposed crimes were milder punishments than the Union inflicted on its own soldiers. The court allowed hearsay evidence, Wirz was no allowed to call key witnesses for his defense, and many leaders of …
Reading (About Roosevelt) Is Fundamental, Duane G. Jundt
Reading (About Roosevelt) Is Fundamental, Duane G. Jundt
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Review of Michael Burgan, Who Was Theodore Roosevelt, Meg Chorlian, "Theodore Roosevelt: Larger Than Life," in Cobblestone, Doreen Rappaport, To Dare Mighty Things: The Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Barb Rosenstock, The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, and Our National Parks.
William Vandever: Presbyterian, Congressman, General, Douglas Firth Anderson
William Vandever: Presbyterian, Congressman, General, Douglas Firth Anderson
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What happens to Dutch ethnic identity after several generations in America? William Vandever (1817-1893) illustrates at least one path of acculturation. He was a Congressman twice--first from Iowa, later from California. During the Civil War, he raised a Union regiment from Iowa and was a general by the time the war ended. In the 1870s he was a U.S. Indian Inspector. His Dutchness, though, persisted through his self-identification as a devout Presbyterian--in the greater Reformed tradition of his Dutch ancestors of the 17th century.
The Battle Of Adobe Walls And The Red River War, 1874-5, Albert Winkler
The Battle Of Adobe Walls And The Red River War, 1874-5, Albert Winkler
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Adobe Walls became the site of two major engagements between the whites and Indians, first in 1864 and ten years later in 187 4. In 1843, William Bent established a trading post near a crossing of the Canadian River in the panhandle area of north Texas. The original structure was probably constructed from wood. Two years later, in 1843, the fort was rebuilt out of adobe or sun-dried brick. It was a formidable structure that with walls about 30 feet (9 meters) high, but the fort proved to be in a dangerous area, and Indian raids soon made the location …
The Battle Of The Rosebud, Albert Winkler
The Battle Of The Rosebud, Albert Winkler
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The Battle of the Rosebud, which took place on 17 June 1876, was the largest single engagement between the United States cavalry and Indian forces in the entire history of the American West. It was a fierce encounter that lasted about six hours and involved all together several thousand cavalrymen and Indian warriors. The outcome of the contest was highly significant because it turned back a major invasion of Indian territories and freed many warriors to engage another invading force under the command of George Armstrong Custer. This led to the destruction of Custer's command at the Battle of the …
Red Cloud's War And The Indian Victory Over The United States, Albert Winkler
Red Cloud's War And The Indian Victory Over The United States, Albert Winkler
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Following the American Civil War, the United States fought a major war against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians known as Red Cloud's War, which lasted from 1866 to 1868. The conflict is noteworthy for its many raids, for its three significant battles, and because it was a costly American defeat and an important Indian victory. A prominent leader of the Native Americans was the great war chief, Red Cloud, who engineered much of their success. The conflict included several important and bloody engagements including the Hayfield and the Wagon Box Battles in 1867, and the highly significant Fetterman Massacre …
The Joint Archives Of Holland Celebrates 25 Years Of Service, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
The Joint Archives Of Holland Celebrates 25 Years Of Service, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
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This year marks the twenty-fifth year since the founding of the Joint Archives of Holland (JAH) as a cooperative program at Hope College. Since then, the staff, comprised of dozens of students, dedicated volunteers, a secretary, and professionally trained archivists, have collected, processed, preserved and given access to thousands of feet of archival resources to countless researchers around the world. Prior to the 1988 founding of the JAH, over three decades of archival work by volunteers and part-time staff had been done at Hope College, Western Theological Seminary, the Netherlands Museum and City of Holland, to pave the way for …
The Urge To Merge, Mark A. Granquist
The Anason Family In Rogaland County, Norway And Juneau County, Wisconsin, Lawrence W. Onsager
The Anason Family In Rogaland County, Norway And Juneau County, Wisconsin, Lawrence W. Onsager
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The Anason family has its roots in Rogaland County in western Norway. The earliest known member of the Anason family came from a region of Rogaland that has since become part of Vest-Agder County, Norway.
Thormod Lovass Anason emigrated to the U.S. in 1869 and settled in Juneau County, Wisconsin. He married Herborg Olsdatter in 1876 which connected him to the Suldal Norwegian American settlement in Juneau County.
Fourth Down And Ted, Duane G. Jundt
Fourth Down And Ted, Duane G. Jundt
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A review of John J. Miller's The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football.
Review Of Stoltzfus, Pacifists In Chains: The Persecution Of Hutterites During The Great War, Carol A. Leibiger
Review Of Stoltzfus, Pacifists In Chains: The Persecution Of Hutterites During The Great War, Carol A. Leibiger
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No abstract provided.
The Germans In The Seventh U.S. Cavalry At The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, Albert Winkler
The Germans In The Seventh U.S. Cavalry At The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, Albert Winkler
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About 15% or 131 men assigned to the Seventh Cavalry in June 1876 were born in Germany. A total of 78 of these men fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and 36 of these men were killed in action. The Germans in the Seventh Cavalry enjoyed a fine reputation as good soldiers, most of them were listed as having “excellent character,” and three of them were awarded the Medal of Honor for their action at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. This article deals with many issues including these men’s backgrounds, the condition of their lives, their height …
The Case For A Custer Battalion Survivor: Private Gustave Korn's Story, Albert Winkler
The Case For A Custer Battalion Survivor: Private Gustave Korn's Story, Albert Winkler
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Almost all of these claims of men having survived Custer’s Massacre at the Battle of the Little Bighorn have proven to be false, Gustave Korn’s case has merit. He was with Company I of Custer’s Battalion when it was attacked and later overwhelmed by the Indians. Korn claimed that his horse was wounded, became unmanageable, and carried him away from the Custer’s Battalion before it was wiped out. The circumstantial evidence supports his claim, and many of the other men in the Seventh Cavalry believed him. Korn was also famous because he cared for Comanche, the horse that was badly …
Juneau County, Wisconsin Bygdebok: A Genealogy Of The Norwegian Settlers, 1850-1950, Lawrence W. Onsager
Juneau County, Wisconsin Bygdebok: A Genealogy Of The Norwegian Settlers, 1850-1950, Lawrence W. Onsager
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No abstract provided.
"Never Draw Unless You Mean To Shoot": Theodore Roosevelt's Frontier Diplomacy, Duane G. Jundt
"Never Draw Unless You Mean To Shoot": Theodore Roosevelt's Frontier Diplomacy, Duane G. Jundt
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No abstract provided.
The Nation Before Taste: The Challenges Of American Culinary History, Andrew P. Haley
The Nation Before Taste: The Challenges Of American Culinary History, Andrew P. Haley
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Food is material and familiar, and because it is, we are often overconfident about our ability to understand the culinary past. It is easy to believe that if we can discover the recipe for some forgotten dish, the history of the dish becomes intelligible. When it does not, it tempts those who consume culinary history to impose modern sensibilities on our predecessors. The Nation before Taste" argues that historians and museum curators must be especially vigilant when presenting the history of food. Reviewing a series of historical challenges that stemmed from studying the United States in the late nineteenth and …
Florida: The Mediated State, Julian C. Chambliss, Denise K. Cummings
Florida: The Mediated State, Julian C. Chambliss, Denise K. Cummings
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"The Mediated State" addresses the perceived and the real experience linked to Florida and demonstrates the state acts as a bellwether for understanding postwar America in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Examining historical shifts linked to perceptions of the state, Chambliss and Cummings argue contemporary observers, like their historical antecedents, look to Florida to glean some greater understanding of the broader national experience.
Happy 300th Birthday To Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Mark A. Granquist
Happy 300th Birthday To Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Mark A. Granquist
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No abstract provided.
Henry Wirz And Andersonville: The Career Of The Most Controversial Swiss American, Albert Winkler
Henry Wirz And Andersonville: The Career Of The Most Controversial Swiss American, Albert Winkler
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Henry Wirz is the most controversial Swiss American. He was assigned to oversee the Andersonville Prison during the Civil War, and he was blamed for the high death rate in that prison even though he had no means of getting additional food and supplies to the captives. He was tried for war crimes after the Civil War. He was not allowed an adequate defense at his trial, and he was found guilty in a travesty of justice. He refused an offer of clemency if he would implicate Jefferson Davis and other high Confederate officials in a plot to kill Union …
Reasonable Conversions: Susanna Rowan's Mentoria And Conversion Narratives For Young Readers, Karen Roggenkamp
Reasonable Conversions: Susanna Rowan's Mentoria And Conversion Narratives For Young Readers, Karen Roggenkamp
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Though not well known, Rowson's Mentoria-a curious conglomeration of thematically-related pieces from multiple genres, including the essay, epistolary novel, conduct book, and fairy tale-offers particularly fertile ground for thinking about the nexus between eighteenth-century didactic books and earlier works for young readers.2 At the heart of Mentoria is a series of letters describing girls who yield, with dire and frequently deadly consequences, to the passionate pleas of male suitors.3 Fallen women populate Rowson's world, and scholars have traditionally read Mentoria within the familiar bounds of the eighteenth-century seduction novel.4 However, Rowson's creation transforms the older tradition of didactic, child-centered conversion …
America's Turning Point, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
America's Turning Point, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
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No abstract provided.
The Question Of Slavery, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
The Question Of Slavery, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
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No abstract provided.
The Swiss At The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, 1876, Albert Winkler
The Swiss At The Battle Of The Little Bighorn, 1876, Albert Winkler
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Twelve men born in Switzerland are known to have been in the Seventh Cavalry in June of 1876, at the time of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and seven of them participated in the battle. Five of these men were killed in the engagement. Much is known about the activities of some of these men, and John Lattman from Zurich left a good account of his experiences. The Swiss were slightly older than most of the men in the Seventh Cavalry, and they were about average in height as the other troopers. These Swiss showed much dedication to their …
The Ancestry And Descendants Of Harry William Mcglothlin Of Bloomer, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, Lawrence W. Onsager
The Ancestry And Descendants Of Harry William Mcglothlin Of Bloomer, Chippewa County, Wisconsin, Lawrence W. Onsager
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McGlothlin is a variant spelling of McLaughlin, a name with both Irish and Scottish origins. McLaughlin is the Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lochlainn, ‘son of the Scandinavian’, from the personal name Lochlann. Lochlann, a personal name meaning ‘stranger’, originally denoting a Scandinavian from the west of Norway (a Viking) or the Norse (Viking)-dominated part of Scotland.
In Irish Gaelic, the adjectival noun, ‘Lochlannach’ has the additional sense of robber/raider/marauder’. To further confuse the origin of the name, in Ireland some of the McLaughlins were originally O’Melaghlin – descendants of the King of Meath (Wikepedia; www.familyeducation.com).
The McGlothlin name appears …
Review Of Beer And Revolution, By Tom Goyens, Carol A. Leibiger
Review Of Beer And Revolution, By Tom Goyens, Carol A. Leibiger
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No abstract provided.
Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That The Public Loved, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That The Public Loved, Geoffrey D. Reynolds
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Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That the Public Loved is an article concerning the private zoo in Holland, Michigan, that was owned by Chicago coal merchant George Fulmer Getz and helped form the Illionois based Brookfiekd Zoo and John Ball Zoo of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Exploding The Myth Of The Boat, Mark A. Granquist
Exploding The Myth Of The Boat, Mark A. Granquist
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No abstract provided.
Review Of America's Prophet: Moses And The American Story, Michael F. Russo
Review Of America's Prophet: Moses And The American Story, Michael F. Russo
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No abstract provided.
Religion And Immigration, Old And New, Mark A. Granquist
Religion And Immigration, Old And New, Mark A. Granquist
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Two great waves of immigration since the middle of the nineteenth century have had great impact on United States culture and religion. While there have been tensions and conflicts, the benefits to both the civil and religious communities continue to be striking.