Kirjahaku

The Rev. William E. Wiatt was known as one of the most laborious chaplains in the Confederate Army and was one of the very few Civil War army chaplains who stayed with the same regiment throughout the War. His was a very local in-the-ranks sort of chaplaincy. He carried the rifles of weak or sick soldiers, and served as nurse, teacher, librarian, mentor and father figure to men of the 26th Virginia Infantry.

Siah Carter was born a slave on a Virginia Plantation on the banks of the James River. In 1862, he stole a small boat and rowed his way to freedom. Siah made it all the way to the US Naval ironclad the Monitor and was inducted into the US Navy. He was one of the first runaway slaves to join the US Military during the Civil War.

This is the true story of a pregnant teenager who assumed command of an American merchant sailing ship in 1856. She faced off a mutiny, braved gale-force winds and icebergs, and then navigated the ship to port. Her name was Mary Patten.

This book serves only as a sampler of all the U.S. American individuals throughout history that have crossed the border for reasons of their own. Some of these travelers came for adventure, others to escape being arrested for crimes committed in the United States. Lots came for employment opportunities that they did not have in the U.S. and some came to escape slavery. Some came to fight in wars and others to find peace.

Sally Tompkins was a very wealthy young woman who was a nurse that owned and ran her own private hospital in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War. The hospital had the highest survival rate of any hospital north or south. This statistic was even more remarkable considering that the worst cases were sent to her. She was also commissioned as Captain in the Confederate Cavalry because, by law, all hospitals had to be under military rule to be able to receive medical supplies. She took her rank seriously. She was adored by the Confederate troops and received probably hundreds of marriage proposals, all of which she declined. It was said that "her strength of mind and character took the place of more frivolous charms." Capt. Sally Tompkins demonstrated that women were capable of doing so many things that, in this time period, women were thought incapable of doing. As a hospital administrator, she challenged gender expectations and helped to expand the role of women in all management positions.