Where the Red Volleys Poured

TitleWhere the Red Volleys Poured
Year of Publication1907
Publication TypeNovel
Number of Pages or Episodes375 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsDahlinger, Charles W.
PublisherG. W. Dillingham Company
CityNew York
Keywordsabolitionists; 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