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A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler's "The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a satiric look at a variety of American types, from the backwoods schoolmaster to the southern gentleman, and a serious expose of the horrors of the slave trade. "In stylistic purity and the clarity with which Tyler investigates and dramatizes American manners," the critic Jack B. Moore has noted, "The Algerine Captive "stands alone in our earliest fiction." It is also one of the first attempts by an American novelist to depict the Islamic world, and lays bare a culture clash and diplomatic quagmire not unlike the one that obtains between the United States and Muslim nations today.
Being An Account Of The Natural History Of The Various Quadrupeds And Birds Which Are The Objects Of Chase In Those Countries.
Medical Recollections is the memoir of one of American medicine's most important figures, Dr. Jonathan Letterman, the father of battlefield medicine. Letterman served of the Army of the Potomac from July 1862 to January 1864. During that time he reinvented medical operations in the field and created a revolutionary system for evacuating and treating wounded soldiers quickly and effectively. The Letterman Plan would become Federal Law by the end of the Civil War and today remains the basis for much of battlefield, emergency, and disaster medicine around the world. Written immediately after the war, the memoirs detail Letterman's experiences as Medical Director and the process by which he came to revolutionize emergency medicine.
This memoir describes artist Francis Bicknell Carpenter's six month residence in the Lincoln White House and the resulting work, ""First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation."" The painting hangs today in the U.S. Capitol over the west staircase in the Senate wing.
This Civil War history of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, follows the officers and men who served, from the time they went into camp at Brattleboro and were mustered into the United States service on September 1, 1862 to the fall of Richmond and their triumphant return to Burlington, battle-scarred and war-weary, in June of 1865. Of the one thousand and sixteen men who left in '62, only 451 remained.
A British soldier's view of the great conflict of blue and gray.
A Critical History Of Operations In Virginia, Maryland And Pennsylvania From The Commencement To The Close Of The War 1861 To 1865.
The following account of the cruise of the two Confederate States steamers-Sumter and Alabama-is taken from the private journals and other papers of Captain Semmes.
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