Hidden history of Civil War Oregon
By: Randol B. Fletcher
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9781609494247
Subjects: Campaigns; Local History; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Guarding the homefront : Oregon Civil War regiments; title: The hunt for John Wilkes Booth : two Portland men who chased down the assassin; title: Blast upon your bugle : an Oregon senator makes the ultimate sacrifice; title: Before the O.K. Corral : how the Civil War brought Virgil Earp to Portland; title: The professors in Pickett's Charge : pioneers of Oregon higher education fought at Gettysburg; title: The minister and the general : former foes reunited in Corvallis; title: A forgotten hero : a Medal of Honor grave goes unmarked; title: From plantation to pulpit : former slave becomes Portland minister; title: Oregon's Confederate engineer : father of Portland's water system; title: A forlorn hope : Vicksburg charge earns Medal of Honor; title: Storming the ramparts : Oregonians display courage in North Carolina; title: A Quaker Civil War hero : buried on a mountaintop in Agness, Oregon; title: Son of the prophet : John Brown's last son dies in Portland; title: Angels of the battlefield : Oregon women who served as Civil War nurses; title: The last Oregon Confederate : he rode with Cole Younger and Frank James; title: Oregon's last Union veterans : one was famous, the other was not; title: Appendix: A few good men : more noteworthy Oregon Civil War veterans.