Author: John Raymond Griffin
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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John Griffin (1804-1876) was born in England. He married Mary Chapman (1801-1851), and they had six children. They immigrated to the United States in 1845 and settled in Benton Township, Lake County, Illinois. He married Harriet Kirk (1823-1899) in 1852, and they had five children. Descendants and relatives lived in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Washington and elsewhere.
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Author: Ryan Frederick
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 149342338X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Marriage is all about sharing: sharing space, sharing joys and sorrows, sharing hopes and dreams. Yet we often hold back a part of ourselves because we fear that being wholly transparent--about our past, our desires, our failures, our faults--will bring judgment, rejection, or even just unwanted friction to our relationship. We are afraid to be fully known. As a result, we never experience being fully loved. Fierce Marriage authors Ryan and Selena Frederick think your marriage deserves better. In this new, paradigm-shifting book, they show you how to develop a see-through marriage, one that is marked by full transparency and confident vulnerability. Through personal stories, testimonies from other couples, and biblical truth, they make the case that living authentically in front of each other is the only way to experience love the way we were designed to. If you desire an honest, no-holding-back marriage where you are fully known, fully accepted, and fully loved, you need this book.
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Category : Delaware County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Author: William Richard Cutter
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Author: Brendan O'Grady
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773527230
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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The first comprehensive account of the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island.
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Publisher: PediaPress
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Languages : en
Pages : 151
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Author: Douglas H. Thomas
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385243750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author: Philip Alexander Bruce
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Author: Judith N. McArthur
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195357663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
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In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up duty with the Confederate Army in a style that befitted a Southern gentleman: on a fine-blooded horse, with two slaves to wait on him, two trunks, and his favorite hunting dog. He was thirty-five years old, a wealthy planter, and the owner of sixty-one slaves when he joined Wade Hampton's elite Legion as a major of cavalry. He left behind seven children, the eldest only twelve, and a wife who was eight and a half months pregnant. As a field officer in a prestigious unit, the opportunities for fame and glory seemed limitless. Griffin, however, performed no daring acts, nor did he inspire great loyalty in his men. Instead, he unknowingly provided a unique and invaluable portrait of the Confederate officers who formed the core of Southern political, military, and business leadership. In A Gentleman and an Officer, Judith N. McArthur and Orville Vernon Burton have collected eighty of Griffin's letters written at the Virginia front, and during later postings on the South Carolina coast, to his wife Leila Burt Griffin. Extraordinary in their breadth and volume, the letters encompass Griffin's entire Civil War service, detailing living conditions and military maneuvers, the jockeying for position among officers, and the different ways officers and enlisted men interacted during the Civil War. Unlike the reminiscences and biographies of high-ranking, well-known Confederate officers or studies and edited collections of letters of members of the rank and file, this collection sheds light on the life of a middle officer--a life turned upside down by extreme military hardship and complicated further by the continuing need for reassurance about personal valor and status common to men of the southern gentry. In these letters, Griffin describes secret troop movements in various military actions such as the Hampton Legion's role in the Peninsula Campaign (details that would certainly have been censored in more recent wars). Here he relates the march from Manassas to Fredricksburg, the siege of Yorktown and the retreat to Richmond, and the fighting at Eltham's landing and Seven Pines, where Griffin commanded the legion after Hampton was wounded. Throughout, as Griffin recounts these most extraordinary of times, he illuminates the most ordinary of day-to-day issues. One might expect to find a Confederate officer meditating on slavery, emancipation, or Lincoln. Instead, we are confronted by simple humanity and simple concerns, from the weather to gossip. Monumental historical events intruded on Griffin's life and sent him off to war, but his heartfelt considerations were about his family, his community, and his own personal pride. Ultimately, Griffin's letters present the Civil War as the refinery, the ordeal by fire, that tested and verified--or modified--Southern upperclass values. With a fascinating combination of military and social history, A Gentleman and an Officer moves from the beginning of the Civil War at Fort Sumter through the end of the war and Reconstruction, vividly illustrating how the issues of the Civil War were at once devastatingly national and revealingly local.
