The Civil War disabled soldiers had a hard life. This book brings forward the way it was using authentic words of the past. You will not find the information here in common history books. Often you will find names mentioned, but no matter a name, the basic information and changes put forth by our government pertained to all disabled veterans of the 'War of the Rebellion'. Be prepared for a few shocks.

You will be stepping into the past, the world of your ancestors as you turn these pages of advertisements for cigars, cigarettes, tobacco for pipes and roll your own cigarettes from long ago. Call it nostalgia if you will, as the products are from a way of life that does not exist any longer, the days long before filters were known. The advertisements can be humorous, just plain silly, and offer bits of history with drawings, photographs, caricatures and text with the advertising statements in earlier days. It is also interesting to see the gift items people could receive with some of the...

Welcome to the earliest days of baseball in historic Cincinnati, Ohio. Pick out your spot and don't budge as you may lose it. "Thousands surrounded the grounds on the outside, standing in wagons, for room for which they paid liberally, sitting on the fences, and crowding into windows and on roofs overlooking the grounds for two squares around." You see, "Cincinnati has baseball on the brain. Recently a President of one of her baseball clubs resigned, and a Cincinnati paper says his resignation at such a crisis as this is to be regarded as a national calamity." It was the early days of a game...

Prior to the Abraham Lincoln becoming an American president there are some surprising situations in his life and this book is about one of them. Honest Abe found himself in a very dark, disturbing, scary situation that was vengeful, had conspiracy mixed in and shows comedy while the entire situation almost took his life. If you like true life mysteries, or appreciate historic facts, you will enjoy reading about this other side of Abe. It is pure history.

Designed deliberately as an easy read, the pages in this book will show you how to get organized with all of your notes, papers, documents, family stories, photographs, computer files and other items that you have for your ancestors, plus as always happens are still searching for. You may have found that a lot of information for your earlier family members can be found on the web and it is adding to your collection of treasures while adding some new family mysteries along with new people. You probably realize that all of your holdings are turning into a confusing mess and you may feel very...

Our canine friends have a history and this book brings forward the way it was for them in the 1800s and early 1900s in true reports. You will see shocking, sad, happy and heartwarming stories on these pages. Don't miss the story about the woman who took ONLY 65 of her dogs along on her honeymoon.