Author: Oliver Davis BonneyPublisher:
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Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
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Civil War Diaries and Occasional Letters
Author: Oliver Davis BonneyPublisher:
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Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
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Confederate Diaries and Letters
Author: Pamela StanfieldPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507505595
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book contains three diaries as well as various Civil War letters and documents. The first diary was written by Robert H. Wardlaw in 1820 when he was 13 years old and a young scholar and continues until age 18 when he learns of the death of his mother while he was away at school. Robert Wardlaw's ten sons all served the Confederacy and one of those sons, William C. Wardlaw is the author of the other two diaries. William Wardlaw was a captain in Company K of the 2nd SC Rifles, Jenkins Brigade. In addition to daily entries, he logs his locations when letters were sent or received. He writes almost daily of Molly, until he marries Josie. He reports Lincoln's death and the "humiliating ordeal of stacking our arms in the presence of the enemy" at Appomattox Court House. The diaries and letters were transcribed as written, as close to the originals as possible. Some photos are included which provide a realistic view of these fragile pieces of history.
Recollections of the Civil War
Author: Mason Whiting TylerCivil War Stories
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882077274
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Fear in North Carolina
Author: Cornelia Catherine Smith HenryPublisher: Reminiscing Books
ISBN: 0979396131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Cornelia Henrys three journals, written between 1860 and 1868, offer an excellent source for daily information on western North Carolina during the Civil War period.
Inside Lincoln's White House
Author: Michael BurlingamePublisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809322625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
On 18 April 1861, assistant presidential secretary John Hay recorded in his diary the report of several women that "some young Virginian long haired swaggering chivalrous of course. . . and half a dozen others including a daredevil guerrilla from Richmond named Ficklin would do a thing within forty eight hours that would ring through the world." The women feared that the Virginian planned either to assassinate or to capture the president. Calling this a "harrowing communication," Hay continued his entry: "They went away and I went to the bedside of the Chief couché. I told him the yarn; he quietly grinned." This is but one of the dramatic entries in Hay’s Civil War diary, presented here in a definitive edition by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger. Justly deemed the most intimate record we will ever have of Abraham Lincoln in the White House, the Hay diary is, according to Burlingame and Ettlinger, "one of the richest deposits of high-grade ore for the smelters of Lincoln biographers and Civil War historians." While the Cabinet diaries of Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Gideon Welles also shed much light on Lincoln’s presidency, as does the diary of Senator Orville Hickman Browning, none of these diaries has the literary flair of Hay’s, which is, as Lincoln’s friend Horace White noted, as "breezy and sparkling as champagne." An aspiring poet, Hay recorded events in a scintillating style that the lawyer-politician diarists conspicuously lacked. Burlingame and Ettlinger’s edition of the diary is the first to publish the complete text of all of Hay’s entries from 1861 through 1864. In 1939 Tyler Dennett published Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, which, as Civil War historian Allan Nevins observed, was "rather casually edited." This new edition is essential in part because Dennett omitted approximately 10 percent of Hay’s 1861–64 entries. Not only did the Dennett edition omit important parts of the diaries, it also introduced some glaring errors. More than three decades ago, John R. Turner Ettlinger, then in charge of Special Collections at the Brown University Library, made a careful and literal transcript of the text of the diary, which involved deciphering Hay’s difficult and occasionally obscure writing. In particular, passages were restored that had been canceled, sometimes heavily, by the first editors for reasons of confidentiality and propriety. Ettlinger’s text forms the basis for the present edition, which also incorporates, with many additions and much updating by Burlingame, a body of notes providing a critical apparatus to the diary, identifying historical events and persons.
"Dear Friends"
Author: Charles Edwin CortPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Touched with Fire
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The American Civil War
Author: Alexander Street Press (Alexandria, Virginia)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Touched with Fire
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.)Publisher: North's Civil War
ISBN: 9780823220175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Holmes's wartime letters and diary entries have attracted students of war as well as biographers of Holmes as rare glimpses into the mind and heart of a soldier who withstood the great slaughter.