Description
Farmers That Helped Shape The usa chronicles the settling of the untamed wilderness that may be today’s western Maryland and the participation of Isaac Van Sickle and his relatives in the Civil War. It also explores other historical developments, such as westward expansion; the building of the National Road; the B&O Railroad and the C&O Canal and their have an effect on on the mid-Atlantic region. This recounting begins with the Van Sickle circle of relatives, which was once one of the crucial earliest settling families in today’s western Maryland. The Van Sickle circle of relatives and a variety of relatives played an important role in the Battle of Monocacy (commonly known as the battle that saved Washington, D.C.) as a result of their service in the Union army as members of the Third Potomac Home Brigade. The Van Sickles’s adventures were shared by untold tens of thousands of hard working, poorly educated, patriotic young men from both the north and south; Collins’s retelling offers a unique insight into their Civil War era service. This story of hardships, survival, and courage of Collins’s ancestors will remind the reader of the selfless sacrifices that their own ancestors made in making and defending freedom. The Van Sickles’s story honors our past, present, and future soldiers.