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

Remsen, JIm; Upp, Brad

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620065398 ISBN 13: 9781620065396

Verlag: Sunbury Press, Inc., 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Sunbury Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1620065398
• ISBN 13: 9781620065396
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 251
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