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1) September 11 oral history interviews: to commemorate the 5th anniversary of September 11, 2001

Series

Oral history project / Arlington County Library

Publisher

Arlington County Public Library, Oral history project

Pub. Date

2008.

Language

English

Formats

Adult Reference, Searchable PDF

Description

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Interviews with Arlington County Police Department, Fire and Rescue, Government officials, County educators, and citizens to commemorate the 5th anniversary of September 11, 2001.

2) Soldiering for freedom: a GI's account of World War II

Author

Obermayer, Herman J

Publisher

Texas A&M University Press

Pub. Date

[2005]

Language

English

3) The war the women lived: female voices from the Confederate South

Publisher

J.S. Sanders

Pub. Date

1995.

Language

English

Description

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In The War the Women Lived, Walter Sullivan presents an informal history of the American Civil War in the South as seen through the eyes of the 23 principals whose acutely perceptive reports he has chosen for this book. "Through their memorable voices," George Garrett has written, comes "a vivid and fascinating view ... of those terrible times." The editor has selected 31 narrative sequences that unfold in chronological order. Each selection constitutes...

4) Personal memoirs of U.S. Grant

Author

Grant, Ulysses S

Series

Universal library

Language

English

Formats

Book, Adult Reference, eBook, Kindle

Description

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Among the autobiographies of great military figures, Ulysses S. Grant's is certainly one of the finest, and it is arguably the most notable literary achievement of any American president: a lucid, compelling, and brutally honest chronicle of triumph and failure. From his frontier boyhood to his heroics in battle to the grinding poverty from which the Civil War ironically "rescued" him, these memoirs are a mesmerizing, deeply moving account of a brilliant...

5) Scraps of paper

Author

Andrews, Marietta Minnigerode

Publisher

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc

Pub. Date

[1929]

Language

English

6) Weevils in the wheat: interviews with Virginia ex-slaves

Author

Perdue, Charles L

Publisher

University Press of Virginia

Pub. Date

1976.

Language

English

7) Confederate Norfolk: the letters of a Virginia lady to theMobile Register, 1861-1862

Author

Hoole, William Stanley

Publisher

Confederate Publishing Co

Pub. Date

[1984]

Language

English

8) The Civil War diary of Anne S. Frobel of Wilton Hill in Virginia

Author

Publisher

Birmingham Printing & Publishing

Pub. Date

[1986]

Language

English

9) This glorious struggle: George Washington's Revolutionary War letters

Author

Washington, George

Publisher

Smithsonian Books

Pub. Date

[2007]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Adult Reference

10) A changing time and place: an Arlington native recalls World War II and the changes it brought

Author

Publisher

D.M. Bates

Pub. Date

[1994]

Language

English

11) Reading the man: a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private lettters

Author

Pryor, Elizabeth Brown

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2007.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Adult Reference

12) To talk is treason: Quakers of Waterford, Virginia on life, love, death and war in the Southern Confederacy

Publisher

Ill., maps, ports

Pub. Date

1996.

Language

English

13) Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery in Virginia, 1864-65

Author

Cook, James Dennison

Publisher

Buffalo Printing Co

Pub. Date

1982.

Language

English

14) The citizen-soldier, or, Memoirs of a volunteer

Author

Series

Collector's library of the Civil War

Publisher

Time-Life Books

Pub. Date

1983.

Language

English

15) The story of a common soldier of army life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Author

Stillwell, Leander

Series

Collector's library of the Civil War

Publisher

Time-Life Books

Pub. Date

1983.

Language

English

16) A soldier's recollections: leaves from the diary of a young Confederate, with an oration on the motives and aims of the soldiers of the South

Author

McKim, Randolph H

Series

Collector's library of the Civil War

Publisher

Time-Life Books

Pub. Date

1984.

Language

English

17) Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

Author

McCarthy, Carlton

Publisher

B. F. Johnson Publishing Co

Pub. Date

[1908]

Language

English

18) A rebel war clerk's diary

Author

Publisher

Sagamore Press

Pub. Date

[1958]

Language

English

19) Richmond during the war: four years of personal observation

Author

Brock, Sallie A

Series

Collector's library of the Civil War

Publisher

[Time-Life Books]

Pub. Date

1983.

Language

English

20) The Civil War diary of Anne S. Frobel

Author

Publisher

EPM Publications

Pub. Date

[1992]

Language

English

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