Research Catalog

Title

The training of an army : Camp Curtin and the North's Civil War / by William J. Miller.

Author

Miller, William J., 1959-

Publication

• Shippensburg, PA : White Mane Pub. Co.
• ©1990.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xv, 334 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Camp Curtin is now part of Harrisburg.

Subject

• United States. Army > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States. Army
• 1800-1899
• Military training camps > Pennsylvania > Harrisburg Region > History > 19th century
• Military training camps
• Military training camps > Pennsylvania
• Camp Curtin (Pa.) > History
• Harrisburg Region (Pa.) > History
• Pennsylvania > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
• Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania > Camp Curtin
• Pennsylvania > Harrisburg Region
• United States
• United States, Pennsylvania, Dauphin, Camp Curtin > Military history > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States, Pennsylvania, Dauphin, Harrisburg > Military history > Civil War, 1861-1865
• United States, Pennsylvania > Military history > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Reveille at the dawn of day -- The madness that rules the hour -- The colonel seems to be boss -- I have not pleasant memories of Camp Curtin -- Cripple camp -- The entire lot would not have amounted to a row of pins -- May you ever be marked as brave men -- Classic ground -- Appendixes. The size of Camp Curtin in relation to other Northern camps -- Camp Curtin memorial -- Names and designations of companies, battalions, and regiments that encamped in Camp Curtin, Camp Return, Camp Simmons or any of the other camps or forts in the Harrisburg area, including Capitol Hill and other sites within the city proper, 1861-1866.

ISBN

• 094259715X
• 9780942597158

LCCN

90031770

OCLC

• ocm21077524
• 21077524
• SCSB-1749697

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library