NATIONAL MILITARY APPRECIATION MONTH

May is National Military Appreciation Month. And one way we can truly appreciate this country's current and past military personnel is to better understand what they experienced while serving their country.

These four Bullis books relate the personal experiences of military personnel in the mid-1800s and early 1900s:

My Story of the War: 

A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience 

as a Nurse in the Union Army, and in relief work at home,

in hospitals, camps, and at the front during the war of rebellion.

With anecdotes, pathetic incidents,and thrilling reminiscences portraying 

the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary service of the war.

By Mary Ashton Rice Livermore

Published by A. D. Worthington and Company, Hartford, 1888

The Autobiography of a Veteran, 1807-1883

By Conte Enrico Moroso della Rocca

Published by Macmillan, New York, 1898

My Army Life and the Fort Phil. Kearney Massacre,

With An Account of the Celebration of "Wyoming Opened"

By Frances  Courtney Carrington

Published by Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1910

A Soldier's Memories in Peace and War

By George John Younghusband

Published by E. P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1917

Even though the month of May is set aside for us to show appreciation to our military personnel, any day or month is appropriate to do so. Therefore, feel free to stop by anytime during the year the to spend some time with one or more of these books.  

And on behalf of the Bullis family, we say a sincere thanks to all of you who have served, or are serving, in our military.

U.S. GRANT

Since our country is in the midst of another general election year, we've been looking through some of the Bullis books about past elections. This week, we focused on:

A New, Original and Authentic Record of the Life and Deeds of

General U.S. Grant

By Frank A. Burr

Published by H.B. Graves, Rochester N.Y., 1885

Included in the text is an account of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency.  At their May, 1868 national convention, the Republicans  unanimously selected Grant as their candidate for the presidency. The 1868 election was the first following the Civil War and this nation was still in recovery from that devastating event.  The Republican party supported the Reconstruction plan set up following that war, while the Democratic party generally opposed the plan.  Grant's victory resulted in the original Reconstruction plan being implemented. (And one result of this was Congress's ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, a/k/a the right to vote.)

Can books about past elections give us some perspective on the current campaign? We suggest that they can. Author Frank Burr's book is available for your use, during regular library hours.