Industry and Infantry: The Civil War in Western Pennsylvania

by Brian A. Butko

Summary

10 classic essays with new introductions Foreword by Arthur B. Fox, author of Pittsburgh during the American Civil War, 1860-1865 Some of the most fascinating--and least known--stories of the Civil War unfolded in Western Pennsylvania. This collection of 10 articles, culled from eight decades of Western Pennsylvania History magazine, encompasses a broad and fascinating array of topics: from the local vote in the election of 1860 to Pittsburgh's massive earthen forts; from "Bucktail" soldiers to the Sanitary Fair; from New Castle's response to a postwar soldiers' convention. DEGREES

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