![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 - Leander Stillwell LibriVox recording of The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by Leander Stillwell. Read by Sue Anderson Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell felt a duty "to help save the Nation;" but, as with many other young men, his Patriotism was tinged with bravura: "the idea of staying at home and turning over senseless clods on the farm with the cannon thundering so close... Keywords: Civil War; army life; Soldier; Illinois; memories; non-fiction Downloads: 1,021 |
![[image]](/images/mediatype_image.gif) | U.S.Army Life in the Cantonment - 1918 - Postcards - Herbert Hillary Booker 2nd - Tujunga, California - 2009 Part 2. "Souvenir Folder of U.S. Army Life in the Cantonment." Keywords: Army Cantonment; Army Life; Bassic Combat Training; Furlough Downloads: 13 |
![[image]](/images/mediatype_image.gif) | The Soldier's Souvenir Letter -1917 - Postcards - Herbert Hillary Booker 2nd - Tujunga, California - 2009 This red covered folder housed an assortment on comical sketches of a young U.S. Army soldier's life at an Army Camp and includes their fanatsies as told in funny pictures. Keywords: Army Life; Pre-WW1; Soldier's fantasies; Soldiers and their ladies Downloads: 11 |
![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Army Life in a Black Regiment - Thomas Wentworth Higginson LibriVox recording of Army Life in a Black Regiment, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Read by FNH. These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored regiment of any kind so mustered, except a portion of the troops raised by Major-General Butler at New Orleans... Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; higginson; army life; military; civil war; african americans Downloads: 4,817 Average rating: (0 review) |
![[image]](/images/mediatype_image.gif) | Army Life in the Army Postcards - 1940 - Herbert Hillary Booker 2nd - Tujunga, California - 2009 Part 2 of the 1940 set of comic postcards sold at Army Post Excnages in WW2. Keywords: Cartoons of army life; Postcard humour; U.S.Army; Army Training Camps Downloads: 36 |
![[image]](/images/mediatype_image.gif) | Comic Life in the Army postcards - 1940 - Herbert Hillary Booker 2nd - Tujunga, California - 2009 Cartoon images of soldiers in training camps prior to and during the Second World War that were privately purchased at the camp post exchange (P.X.) and mailed home to friends and family. Soldiers also saw humour in army life! Keywords: Cartoons of army life; Postcard humour; U.S.Army; Army Training Camps Downloads: 19 |
![[image]](/images/mediatype_image.gif) | Postcards of Camp Custer, Michigan - 1918 - Herbert Hillary Booker 2nd - Tujunga, California - 2009 Part 2. Camp Custer picture postcards of army life in WW1. Keywords: Images of army life; Soldiers; U.S.Army; Army Training Camps; Doughboys Downloads: 21 |
![[image]](/images/mediatype_image.gif) | Postcards showing Army Life in 1939 U.S.A. - Herbert Hillary Booker 2nd - Tujunga, California - 2009 Second half of the set of picture postcards showing Army of the United States daily camp life and acitivities in training recruits. Keywords: Postcard Accordian; Fold-Out Postcards; Army Life; K.P; Guard Duty Downloads: 23 |