Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives of the Civil War: Southern, Border, and Western states and territories ; Federal troops ; Union and Confederate biographies
Author: Military Bibliography of the Civil War: Regimental publications and personal narratives: Southern, Border, and Western States and Territories; Federal troops; Union and Confederate biographies
Author: Rebel Private: Front And Rear: Memoirs Of A Confederate Soldier
Author: William A. FletcherPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1786251787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
“The recent rediscovery of Rebel Private: Front and Rear, effectively lost for decades, marks an authentic publishing event in the literature of the Civil War. A rare insight into the conflict from the point of view of a Confederate army enlisted man, this compelling memoir has been hailed by historians as a classic and indispensible key to understanding the Southern perspective. Margaret Mitchell even described it as her single most valuable source of research for Gone With the Wind. “This stunning document is the work of a common foot soldier blessed with extraordinary perception and articulateness. After joining the famed Texas Brigade under Stonewall Jackson. Private William A. Fletcher saw action at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, and Chickamauga. He was wounded several times and escaped from a moving Union prison train before the South’s surrender. In 1907, he published this powerfully evocative account of his exploits, a volume of frank, detailed recollections that spares none of the horror, courage, or absurdity of war. But a fire destroyed all but a few copies before they could be distributed. One copy, however, did make its way to the Library of Congress, where it was eventually discovered. Today, this colorful work has become the voice of the Civil War front-line grunt, speaking to the modern reader with the intensity of personal experience and a vividness of detail that gives it a riveting you-are-there quality.”- Print ed. “Get this riveting book. Fletcher’s description of Gettysburg surpasses almost everything I’ve read anywhere about that battle, including—gasps!—Michael Shaara’s The Killer Angels.”—Jeff Guinn, Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Epitomizes unsung, unintentional greatness.... Readers find themselves in the trenches.... May become seminal reading for Civil War scholars and history buffs.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Life in the Confederate Army
Author: William WatsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Regimental Publications & Personal Narratives of the Civil War: General references ; Armed forces ; Campaigns and battles
Author: Writings of a Rebel Colonel
Author: Samuel WalkupPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476644489
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Lawyer, planter and politician Samuel Hoey Walkup (1818-1876) led the 48th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War. A devout Christian and Whig nationalist, he opposed secession until hostilities were well underway, then became a die-hard Confederate, serving in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days battles through Appomattox. Presenting Walkup's complete and annotated writings, this composite biography of an important but overlooked Southern leader reveals an insightful narrator of his times. Having been a pre-war civilian outside the West Point establishment, he offers a candid view of Confederate leadership, particularly Robert E. Lee and A.P. Hill. Home life with his wife Minnie Parmela Reece Price and the enslaved members of their household was a complex relationship of cooperation and resistance, congeniality and oppression. Walkup's story offers a cautionary account of misguided benevolence supporting profound racial oppression.
Memoirs of the Civil War
Author: William W. ChamberlainePublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817356355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Robert E.L. Krick is a Richmond based historian and author of Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia and Fortieth Virginia Infantry. --Book Jacket.
Military Memoirs of a Confederate
Author: Edward Porter AlexanderPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Him on the One Side and Me on the Other
Author: Alexander CampbellPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570032653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Alexander and James Campbell, born and raised in Scotland, immigrated to the United States as teenagers in the 1850s and settled in vastly different regions of the country - Alexander in New York City and James in Charleston, South Carolina. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Alexander and James opted to fight for their adopted states and causes: Alexander enlisted in the 79th New York "Highlanders" and James in the 1st South Carolina ("Charleston") Battalion. "Him on the One Side and Me on the Other" tells the remarkable story of these two brothers divided by the Civil War. Through their wartime letters to family and to each other, the brothers expose the deep fractures in American society caused by the most destructive war in this country's history. In the most dramatic moment in this story of the brothers' wartime experiences, the letters reveal a near-reunion on the battlefield of Secessionville, South Carolina, on June 16, 1862. There Alexander was part of the Union force that assaulted Tower Battery, a fort inhabited by James and his Confederate comrades.
The Life of Johnny Reb
Author: Bell Irvin WileyPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807104750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Offers a composite portrait of the Southern soldier during the Civil War.