A Young Dutchman Views Post--Civil War America: Diary of Claude August Crommelin

by Claude August Crommelin, Augustus J. Veenendaal Jr. (Translator), H. Roger Grant (Editor)

Overview

Not long after the end of the American Civil War, a wealthy young
Dutchman by the name of Claude August Crommelin embarked on a tour of the young
country, visiting New England, the Middle Atlantic States, the Upper Mississippi
Valley, and the war-ravaged South. His family connections allowed him to meet
important people, and his interests in industry, politics, and public institutions
led him to observe what others might not have noticed. His meticulously kept journal
reveals an inquisitive traveler with a keen eye for detail and a genial writing
style. Available in English for the first time, Crommelin's book provides an
illuminating outsider's account of the United States at a pivotal point in its
history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253000903
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	03/28/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. is author of Spoorwegen in Nederland
[Railways in the Netherlands].

H. Roger Grant is Kathryn and
Calhoun Lemon Professor of History at Clemson University. He is author of 24 books,
including Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution
(IUP, 2008).

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1.
From Amsterdam through Belgium and Great Britain to New York:
April<N>May 1866
2. In New York City and Westward to Chicago:
May 1866
3. From Chicago through Illinois and Northward to Minnesota:
May<N>June 1866
4. In Chicago and by way of Cincinnati and
Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia: June<N>July 1866
5. New
York City, Albany, Niagara Falls, Pennsylvania Oil, and Canada:
July<N>August 1866
6. In Boston and New England:
August<N>September 1866
7. In New York City, New Jersey, and
Troy, New York: September<N>October 1866
8. In Boston,
Providence, Albany, and back to New York City: October<N>December
1866
9. In the South: Charleston and Savannah: December 1866
10.
In Georgia and Virginia: December 1866
11. To Baltimore and Washington,
D.C.: December 1866<N>January 1867
12. In New York City:
January 1867
13. In New York City and Boston and Salem, Massachusetts:
January<N>February
1867

Notes
Index