Author: Frank WilkesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac
Author: Frank WilkesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Turned Inside Out
Author: Frank WilkesonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803297999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Reflecting no misty-eyed nostalgia, Frank Wilkeson's memoir of the Civil War is "unlike most others by Civil War veterans, who tended to romanticize and sometimes to glorify their experiences, thus distorting the experiences they went through. . . . His emphasis on the seamy, unheroic, horrific side of war is a healthy corrective to romanticism".--James M. McPherson, from his Introduction.
Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac
Author: Frank WilkesonRecollections of a Private
Author: Warren Lee GossPublisher: Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN: 1582181624
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Recollections of a Private is an engrossing look at the life of the private soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Warren Lee Goss chronicles not only his own experiences but those of his brother soldiers as well. Beginning with life as a raw recruit and continuing through the major battles of the Civil War, Goss gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a soldier's life before, during and after battle. This is a reprint edition As Published in 1890. Text illustrations throughout. Recollections of a Private began as a series of Articles in Century Magazine. Any Civil War buff would love this book. It would make for a great gift. DSI digitally re-typeset an original edition and enhanced the wood-cut illustrations. Also available in jacketed hardcover as ISBN 9781582181639.
Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac
Author: Frank WilkesonPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230321714
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... VIII. THE BATTLE OF COLD HARBOR. ON the morning of May 28, 1864, the Second Corps crossed the Pamunkey River. Close by the bridge on which we crossed, and to the right of it, under a tree, stood Generals Grant, Meade, and Hancock, and a little back of them was a group of staff officers. Grant looked tired. He was sallow. He held a dead cigar firmly between his teeth. His face was as expressionless as a pine board. He gazed steadily at the enlisted men as they marched by, as though trying to read their thoughts, and they gazed intently at him. He had the power to send us to our deaths, and we were curious to see him. But the men did not evince the slightest enthusiasm. None cheered him, none saluted him. Grant stood silently looking at his troops and listening to Hancock, who was talking and gesticulating earnestly. Meade stood by Grant's side and thoughtfully stroked his own face. I stepped from the column and filled my canteens in the Pamunkey River, and looked my fill at the generals and their staffs, and then ran by the marching troops through a gantlet of chaff, as " Go it, artillery," " The artillery is advancing," " Hurry to your gun, my son, or the battle will be lost," and similar sarcastically good-natured remarks, which were calculated to stimulate my speed. During the afternoon we heard considerable firing in front of us, and toward evening we marched over ground where dead cavalrymen were plentifully sprinkled. The blue and the gray lay side by side, and their arms by them. With the Confederates lay muzzle-loading carbines, the ramrods of which worked upward on a swivel hinge fastened near the muzzle of the weapon. It was an awkward arm and far inferior to the Spencer carbine with which our cavalry was armed. There were...
Recollections of a Private
Author: Warren Lee GossPublisher: Time Life Education
ISBN: 9780809444663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Recollections of a Private is an engrossing look at the life of the private soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Warren Lee Goss chronicles not only his own experiences but those of his brother soldiers as well. Beginning with life as a raw recruit and continuing through the major battles of the Civil War, Goss gives us a behind-the-scenes look at a soldier's life before, during and after battle.
Recollections of a Private
Author: Warren Lee GossPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333923389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Excerpt from Recollections of a Private: A Story of the Army of the Potomac HE first few chapters of this book were published under the title of Recollections of a Private in the Century Magazine. Herein I have endeavored to speak for my many comrades in the ranks. Could their voices have been heard mine would have been silent. The general of an army, in his reports, gives the anatomy of army movements and of battle. A description of the many incidents of the private soldier's experience shows its living soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Four Years in the Army of the Potomac
Author: Evan Rowland JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Army Life
Author: Theodore GerrishPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
1. From Portland to Antietam -- 2. Battle of Antietam -- 3. From Antietam to Fredericksburgh -- 4. Three visits to Fredericksburgh -- 5. Hooker's campaign - Chancellorsville -- 6. Gettysburgh -- 7. From Gettysburgh to Rappahannock Station -- 8. Rappahannock Station -- 9. The Wilderness campaign opened -- 10. The Battle of Spottsylvania -- 11. North Anna to the James -- 12. In front of Petersburgh -- 13. The Weldon railroad -- 14. Five Forks -- 15. The surrender -- 16. Appomattox to Richmond -- 17. Marching through Richmond -- 18. The great review -- 19. Homeward bound -- 20. Hospital life -- 21. Pen pictures of Union generals -- 22. A review.
Personal Recollections of the Civil War
Author: James Madison StonePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Personal Recollections of the Civil War" (By One Who Took Part in It as a Private Soldier in the 21st Volunteer Regiment of Infantry from Massachusetts) by James Madison Stone. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.