Book Description
Primarily describes events in Virginia, however from Feb.-May 1863 the author was in eastern North Carolina, including Kinston, New Bern, Washington, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Tarboro, Greenville, and Goldsboro.
Author : Louis Leon
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 1913
Category : North Carolina
ISBN :
Primarily describes events in Virginia, however from Feb.-May 1863 the author was in eastern North Carolina, including Kinston, New Bern, Washington, Wilson, Rocky Mount, Tarboro, Greenville, and Goldsboro.
Author : Kristen Brill
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,59 MB
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0807167436
Lucy Wood Butler's diary provides a compelling account of an ordinary woman's struggle to come to terms with realities of war on the Confederate home front. Married at the start of the war, she would become a widow by mid-1863; her account of life in the Confederacy explores her life in Virginia, her mourning period for her deceased husband, and her views on the waning prospect of Confederate victory. Now available in book form for the first time, The Diary of a Civil War Bride brings to light a vital archival resource that reveals the mindset of women in the Civil War South.
Author : John S. Jackman
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 36,11 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781570031649
Journal prized for its insight into the 'Orphan Brigade.'.
Author : Randolph Harrison McKim
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Gettysburg Campaign, 1863
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Author : James Edmond Hall
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 1961
Category : United States
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Author : Léon Louis
Publisher :
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781519086181
This is not the diary of a lieutenant or general, but instead that of an ordinary private. Leon Louis, at the age of nineteen, signed up to join the First North Carolina Regiment in 1861 and remained with them for six months before being mustered into the Fifty-Third North Carolina Regiment until the end of the war. He was not involved in strategic discussions or decisions but he was one of the many thousands who unquestioningly put their lives on the line for the cause of the confederacy. He reveals in stark prose the day to day drudgery of the war, from cutting down trees for the preparation of defences to creating bedding from collected leaves, which he described as 'a bed fit for a king or a Confederate soldier.' Louis saw conflict at number of occasions throughout the war including the Battle of the Wilderness where he was captured by the Union army. He spent the rest of the war in prison and details his life in those camps, but also gives details of the continuing action of the Fifty-Third Regiment from other sources until the end of the war. Also included in Leon's account are details of all the men who fought in the two regiments that he served with. Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate provides an insight into the life of an ordinary soldier fighting for the South during the American Civil War. After the War Leon was actively involved in the organization "United Confederate Veterans" in which he became a major. This diary was published in 1913 and he died in 1919. There is a monument in Charlotte, North Carolina, honoring him and the twelve other Jewish Confederate soldiers who are buried in the Hebrew Cemetery.
Author : Randolph Harrison McKim
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
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Author : Louis Leon
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,70 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category :
ISBN : 9781019386262
This compelling diary offers a firsthand account of the Civil War from the perspective of a North Carolina soldier. With its vivid descriptions of battles, camp life, and the experiences of ordinary soldiers, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of the Civil War. 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.
Author : John Guilford Earnest
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 20,49 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781572332331
All Right Let Them Come offers rare observations into the life of an East Tennessee Confederate soldier, John G. Earnest, and the events surrounding his involvement in the transfer to the western Confederate front and the siege of Vicksburg. The passages on the fighting at Chickasaw Bayou and at Big Black Bridge near Vicksburg cast light on the East Tennessee confederates military defects, Which Earnest suggests may have come from a lack of training and discipline, in addition to the region s sharply divided loyalties to the Union and Confederacy and the fact that these soldiers were moved great distances from the homelands they had volunteers to defend. Earnest s diary provides a readable account of the day-to-say life of a low-ranking officer. Material on the routines of camp life, on the limitations of the transportation system, which hindered the South s war efforts, and on travel across the western Confederacy address the lack of provisions, deficits in the Confederate soldiers discipline and morale, and the South s difficulties in maintaining a cohesive, powerful fighting force in the Western Theater. The Author: Charles Swift Northen III is a retired investment manager who lives in Birmingham, Alabama. John G. Earnest was his great-grandfather. "
Author : Samuel Rush Watkins
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761416463
Excerpts from the diary of a Confederate soldier from Tennessee, describing the battles he fought in during the Civil War.