Title: Erlebnisse Eines Schweizerisches Ingenieurs in Californien, Mexico, und Texas Zur Zeit Des Amerikanischen Burgerkrieges, 1861-1865
Description: Autobiography of a Swiss man, who traveled to the Americas in the 1800s and was influential as an engineer in the Confederate defense of Texas, and in the land-use documentation of California as a surveyor and city planner (e.g. for Oakland, California).
Places: Oakland (Calif.), Alameda County (Calif.), Contra Costa County (Calif.), East Texas
People: Julius G. Kellersberger
Time periods: 1800s