Back From Battle: The Forgotten Story of Pennsylvania’s Camp Discharge and the Weary Civil War Soldiers It Served - Tapa blanda

Remsen, JIm; Upp, Brad

 
9781620065396: Back From Battle: The Forgotten Story of Pennsylvania’s Camp Discharge and the Weary Civil War Soldiers It Served
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ISBN 10: 1620065398 ISBN 13: 9781620065396
Editorial: Sunbury Press, Inc., 2021

Sinopsis

In the final year of the American Civil War, a special Union Army post was constructed just outside Philadelphia to handle a jumble of returning citizen-soldiers.

Many soldiers bore bullet wounds, broken bones, and other scars of combat. Some had lost limbs. Some were laid low by illness. Hundreds arrived half-dead as survivors of wretched prison camps. Others were blessedly unscathed—but all grappled with the fresh, ferocious memories of their time at war.

The post, known as Camp Discharge, did its best to move the young Union veterans on to their next assignment or, more often, back to civilian life. During its brief existence, it sat on a bluff overlooking what is today one of the nation’s busiest highways, the Schuylkill Expressway. The post was quickly dismantled, its story forgotten. The authors reclaim that remarkable history and trace the often tumultuous lives of the Pennsylvania volunteer soldiers who passed through Camp Discharge’s gates.

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Acerca de los autores

Jim Remsen is a journalist and author of three prior books, The Intermarriage Handbook (HarperCollins, 1988), Visions of Teaoga (Sunbury, 2014), and Embattled Freedom (Sunbury 2017). Since retiring as Religion Editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jim has pursued his keen interest in history, especially underappreciated aspects of our nation's local histories.

Brad Upp is a board member of the Lower Merion Historical Society and a former educator. His upbringing near Camp Discharge stoked a fascination with history and led him to become a Civil War historian, relic hunter and re-enactor representing the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry. Brad is a skilled collector of artifacts from various periods of history, a passion that has taken him to a myriad of locations throughout the United States.

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Editorial
Sunbury Press, Inc.
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1620065398
ISBN 13 
9781620065396
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Número de páginas
251
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