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The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War (Paperback)
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The Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts - A Northern Factory Town's Perspective on the Civil War (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 470
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The three articles that comprise this book tell different stories
about the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts,
which played an important role as an arms manufacturer during the
American Civil War. Together, they make up a kind of composite of
the Northern Civil War experience in the small, but dynamic,
universe of a factory town. We meet Nathan P. Ames and James T.
Ames, brothers who founded the firm, the younger burdened with the
responsibility to continue the company after the tragic and grisly
death of the older brother. We meet two workers in the factory, one
of whom, Charles Tracy, was a machinist who left his position to
join the army, and came home without a leg-and was awarded the
Medal of Honor. He was cared for by Clara Barton, and comforted by
President Abraham Lincoln in the hospital ward. The other man,
Melzar Mosman, just a boy of nineteen, worked in the foundry
department of the factory, forging canon. He also left to join the
army, but after the war would become celebrated for forging bronze
statuary, including a number of Civil War monuments.
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