Title | Where the Red Volleys Poured |
Year of Publication | 1907 |
Publication Type | Novel |
Number of Pages or Episodes | 375 p. |
Language | English |
Authors | Dahlinger, Charles W. |
Publisher | G. W. Dillingham Company |
City | New York |
Keywords | abolitionists; Abraham Lincoln (1809-65); American Civil War; engineers; German Americans; Harmony Society; immigrants; Irish Americans; Italian Americans; Jenny Lind (1820-87); Protestants; railroad industry; Roman Catholics; Scots-Irish Americans; singers |
Abstract | Paul Didier, a German revolutionary exile who immigrates to Pittsburgh, works on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and eventually enters the Union Army, in which he rises to the rank of general during the war. |
Notes | North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known. |
Author Biography | Charles William Dahlinger (1857-1935), born in Allegheny City, Allegheny County, was a lawyer, banker, historian, editor, and writer. In 1887 he joined the Allegheny County Bar. From 1918 to 1922 he was the first editor of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine. |
Time | 1840s-60s |