The Bracelet in the Attic by A. Potio

Aiden BCR

doi:10.20361/g2690m

The Bracelet in the Attic by A. Potio

The Deakin Review of Children s Literature ◽

10.20361/g2690m ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Aiden BCR

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Actual Conflict ◽

Battle Of Gettysburg

Potio, Amara. The Bracelet in the Attic. Cambridge: Educators Publishing Service, 2008. Print. The book is not very humorous but more serious at most times. I don't find that bad. I like authors that do this kind of thing. The author makes you kind of feel like your tagging along with the characters in this story which is very interesting. This book is more of a mystery solving kind of book - which are always interesting books to read sometimes.I find it interesting how you learn a thing or two about history. In this book you learn about the civil war, Battle of Gettysburg. More British soldiers died from getting sick than the actual conflict happening during that time. It is a very short mystery book but there are certain points in the book that make you question how the author thought of something like this. I would recommend this book to any 8th grader. 4/5 star rating.Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Aiden

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STUART, CUSTER, KILPATRICK AND FARNSWORTH: TOPOGRAPHY, MILITARY GEOLOGY AND DRAMA OF THE EAST AND SOUTH CAVALRY FIELDS AT THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, ADAMS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA - JULY 3, 1863

10.1130/abs/2017se-289139 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

John C. Neubaum ◽

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Richard C. Keen ◽

Jon D. Inners ◽

Morgan B. Lee

Keyword(s):

Civil War ◽

Battle Of Gettysburg

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Combat at the Keys: Women and Battle Pieces for the Piano during the American Civil War

19th-Century Music ◽

10.1525/ncm.2016.40.1.7 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 7-19

Author(s):

Elizabeth Morgan

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Civil War ◽

Reception History ◽

American Civil War ◽

Literary Sources ◽

War Effort ◽

History Of ◽

Female Composer ◽

Battle Of Gettysburg

During the American Civil War, women in the parlor imagined life at the front through music, playing pieces and singing songs on topics related to the conflict. Among the genres that they performed were battle pieces for the piano, episodic works that depict incidents of battle and their outcome in victory. These pieces constituted a genre that had long been a favorite of female amateur performers, their lineage beginning with Frantisek Kotzwara's 1788 Battle of Prague, which remained steadily popular throughout the nineteenth century. This article examines Civil War battle pieces by tracing their roots to Kotzwara's famous piece. By constructing a reception history of that work as it appears in nineteenth-century literary sources, the article retrieves some alternatives to the abundant satirical readings of the Battle of Prague in period fiction. It suggests that Civil War battle music played several important roles in the lives of its players. The music invited women to imagine and embody the conflicts on the battlefield, to challenge society's expectations of women as both pianists and as contributors to the war effort in public capacities, and to reflect on the costs of the war. The article goes on to examine a battle piece by a female composer and to consider amateur women's performances of battle repertoire during the war years. Finally, drawing inspiration from the accounts in fiction of Kotzwara's Battle of Prague, it concludes by imagining a woman's performance of a battle piece on the heels of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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The Irish in New York in the early eighteen-sixties

Irish Historical Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021121400030571 ◽

1950 ◽

Vol 7 (26) ◽

pp. 87-108

Author(s):

Albon P Man

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Civil War ◽

Catholic Church ◽

American History ◽

Turning Point ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Race Riots ◽

The North ◽

Battle Of Gettysburg ◽

Almost All

July 1863 was the turning point of the American civil Avar. Prospects of ultimate victory for the north improved greatly that month, when General Lee's thrust into Pennsylvania was repulsed at the battle of Gettysburg, and Vicksburg, last confederate stronghold on the Mississippi, fell after a long siege. Yet during the sultry week of 12 July 1863 the most violent race riots of American history took place in the streets of New York, touched off by enforcement of a conscription act which congress had passed four months earlier How many negroes were lynched by white rioters and their bodies borne away on the waters surrounding Manhattan Island can never be known. But between twelve and fifteen hundred white persons died in this civil war within a civil war, most of them slain by police and soldiers charged with quelling the upheaval.If newspaper accounts, official reports, and other sources of information agree upon any point about the draft disorders, it is that almost all the participants were Irish. ‘The immediate actors in the late riots in this city, got up to resist the draft and to create a diversion in favor of the southern rebellion, were almost exclusively Irishmen and catholics’ , wrote Orestes A. Brownson, America's leading convert to the Catholic Church.

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