The Civil War Memoir of Sgt. Christian Lenker, 19th Ohio Volunteers, was originally published as a series of 174 articles appearing from 1912 to 1915 in the Pottsville (PA) Evening Chronicle. The authorat that time a physician practicing in nearby Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvaniahad been invited by the editor to describe his service fifty years earlier in an Ohio regiment fighting in the western theater. Composing his articles from field notes and letters, Dr. Lenker tells in great detail his regiments fighting at Shiloh, Stones River, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Picketts Mill, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, and Nashville.
The editors, assisted by students, have transcribed and edited the memoir from the only surviving newspaper articles. They have also provided annotations and written introductory essays.
Sobre el autor
Judith Kennedy, M.A., M.S., is a counselor at Samaritan Counseling Services in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied psychology at Millersville University, her great grandparents’ alma mater. She also studied religion and depth psychology at Syracuse University. She has taught English literature, philosophy and religion at other schools. Judith’s poetry and essays appear in The Atlanta Review, Mythopoetry Scholar, Poem, Friends Journal and other publications. Her home is alongside the Susquehanna River, where she lives with her husband Glen and their dogs.
Prof. Barton received his doctorate in American Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974 and has been a faculty member in the American Studies program at the Pennsylvania State at Harrisburg for over four decades. His Civil War scholarship includes the books Goodmen: The Character of Civil War Soldiers (Penn State, 1981), The Civil War Soldier: A Historical Reader (NYU, 2002), co-edited with Prof. Larry Logue, and The Civil War Veteran: A Historical Reader (NYU, 2007) also co-edited with Logue. Besides The Civil War Memoir of Sgt. Christian Lenker, 19th Ohio Volunteers, he and his students have also edited the previously unpublished regimental history of the 209th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Prof. Barton has also edited numerous Civil War diaries and letter collections for academic journals.
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