Industry and Infantry: The Civil War in Western Pennsylvania

by Brian Butko, Arthur B. Fox (Foreword by), Nicholas P. Ciotola (Joint Author)

Overview

Some of the Most Fascinating -- and Least Known -- Stories of the Civil War unfolded in Western Pennsylvania. This collection of articles, culled from eight decades of Western Pennsylvania History magazine, encompasses a broad and compelling array of topics, from the local vote in the election of 1860 to the Pittsburgh Sanitary Fair; from an infantryman's account of combat to the fabrication of the war's largest and most powerful cannons; from New Castle's response to a fiery postwar soldiers' convention. The Civil War was fueled by munitions and thousands of soldiers from Western Pennsylvania. This volume recalls those industries and the region's people, and how their lives were changed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780936340111
Publisher:	Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
Publication date:	04/10/2003
Edition description:	1 AMER ED
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.17(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vi
	Foreword	viii
	Introduction	x
1	Western Pennsylvania and the Election of 1860	1
2	New Castle in 1860-61: A Community Response to a War Crisis	12
3	Camp Wilkins, Military Post, 1861	22
4	General James Scott Negley	32
5	A Bucktail Voice: Civil War Correspondence of Private Cordello Collins	48
6	Some Aspects of Pittsburgh's Industrial Contributions to the Civil War	60
7	The Sanitary Fair	70
8	The Pittsburgh Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention, 25-26 September 1866	88
	Notes	100
Appendix	List of Articles	116
	Index	125