The Diary of Sam Watkins, a Confederate Soldier

The Diary of Sam Watkins, a Confederate Soldier
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Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0761416463
ISBN-13 : 9780761416463
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Diary of Sam Watkins, a Confederate Soldier by : Samuel Rush Watkins

Excerpts from the diary of a Confederate soldier from Tennessee, describing the battles he fought in during the Civil War.

Company Aytch

Company Aytch
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Publisher : CreateSpace
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 1481211072
ISBN-13 : 9781481211079
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Company Aytch by : Samuel Sam Rush Watkins

This collection explores monetary institutions linking Europe and the Americas in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

"Co. Aytch"

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Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B61820
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Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis "Co. Aytch" by : Samuel R. Watkins

Company Aytch

Company Aytch
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 277
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ISBN-10 : 9781443429047
ISBN-13 : 144342904X
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Company Aytch by : Samuel R. Watkins

Company Aytch; Or, a Side Show of the Big Show is the personal memoir of American Civil War veteran Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins. Often heralded as one of the most reliable and informative primary sources on the Civil War, Watkins describes his experiences during his service as an infantryman in the Confederate Army. In the early days of the war, Watkins enlisted in the Tennessee Infantry and served through the duration of the conflict, participating in many battles, including ones in Atlanta, Jonesboro, and Nashville. Profoundly, Watkins was one of only sixty-five men from the First Tennessee infantry, which recruited over three thousand men, to survive the war. Widely studied by Civil War historians, Company Aytch is valued for its portrayal of the experience of the common soldier. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

For Cause and Comrades

For Cause and Comrades
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780199741052
ISBN-13 : 0199741050
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis For Cause and Comrades by : James M. McPherson

General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You couldn't get American soldiers today to make an attack like that." Why did those men risk certain death, over and over again, through countless bloody battles and four long, awful years ? Why did the conventional wisdom -- that soldiers become increasingly cynical and disillusioned as war progresses -- not hold true in the Civil War? It is to this question--why did they fight--that James McPherson, America's preeminent Civil War historian, now turns his attention. He shows that, contrary to what many scholars believe, the soldiers of the Civil War remained powerfully convinced of the ideals for which they fought throughout the conflict. Motivated by duty and honor, and often by religious faith, these men wrote frequently of their firm belief in the cause for which they fought: the principles of liberty, freedom, justice, and patriotism. Soldiers on both sides harkened back to the Founding Fathers, and the ideals of the American Revolution. They fought to defend their country, either the Union--"the best Government ever made"--or the Confederate states, where their very homes and families were under siege. And they fought to defend their honor and manhood. "I should not lik to go home with the name of a couhard," one Massachusetts private wrote, and another private from Ohio said, "My wife would sooner hear of my death than my disgrace." Even after three years of bloody battles, more than half of the Union soldiers reenlisted voluntarily. "While duty calls me here and my country demands my services I should be willing to make the sacrifice," one man wrote to his protesting parents. And another soldier said simply, "I still love my country." McPherson draws on more than 25,000 letters and nearly 250 private diaries from men on both sides. Civil War soldiers were among the most literate soldiers in history, and most of them wrote home frequently, as it was the only way for them to keep in touch with homes that many of them had left for the first time in their lives. Significantly, their letters were also uncensored by military authorities, and are uniquely frank in their criticism and detailed in their reports of marches and battles, relations between officers and men, political debates, and morale. For Cause and Comrades lets these soldiers tell their own stories in their own words to create an account that is both deeply moving and far truer than most books on war. Battle Cry of Freedom, McPherson's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the Civil War, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in The New York Times, called "history writing of the highest order." For Cause and Comrades deserves similar accolades, as McPherson's masterful prose and the soldiers' own words combine to create both an important book on an often-overlooked aspect of our bloody Civil War, and a powerfully moving account of the men who fought it.

Civil War Memoir of Philip Daingerfield Stephenson, D. D.

Civil War Memoir of Philip Daingerfield Stephenson, D. D.
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Publisher : LSU Press
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 0807122696
ISBN-13 : 9780807122693
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Civil War Memoir of Philip Daingerfield Stephenson, D. D. by : Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr.

“Truth in history is sacred and these things must be said.” So writes Philip Stephenson in this remarkable memoir about his four years of service in the Army of Tennessee. Written in 1865, when he was twenty, Stephenson’s diary relates his observations and reminiscences in painstaking detail. A private who became a veteran infantryman and artilleryman, Stephenson witnessed the death of Leonidas Polk and shared a blanket with a sleeping General Breckinridge. Ably edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., Stephenson’s vibrant memoirs indeed stand out, as he had hoped, “as though photographed in letters of fire.”

Hardtack and Coffee, Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life

Hardtack and Coffee, Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life
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Publisher : Time Life Medical
Total Pages : 440
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89067420463
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Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Hardtack and Coffee, Or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life by : John Davis Billings

First published more than 100 years ago, Hard Tack And Coffee is John Billings? absorbing first-person account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier during the Civil War. Billings attended a reunion of Civil War veterans in 1881 that brought together a group of survivors whose memories and stories of the war compelled him to write this account.Illustrated by Charles W. Reed, this edition is enhanced with over 200 sketches that reflect the sights and scenes of America's most turbulent era. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Tom Taylor's Civil War

Tom Taylor's Civil War
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Publisher : Modern War Studies
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105028639891
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Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Tom Taylor's Civil War by : Thomas Thomson Taylor

Thomas Taylor was a junior officer who fought under Sherman at Vicksburg and Chattanooga and on the march through Georgia. Piecing together vivid descriptions of the various skirmishes from his diaries and letters, Castel has created a work on the Civil War as engrossing as any novel. 15 photos. 4 maps.

Co. Aytch

Co. Aytch
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9781439104880
ISBN-13 : 1439104883
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Co. Aytch by : Sam R. Watkins

A classic Civil War memoir, Co. Aytch is the work of a natural storyteller who balances the horror of war with an irrepressible sense of humor and a sharp eye for the lighter side of battle. It is a testament to one man’s enduring humanity, courage, and wisdom in the midst of death and destruction. Early in May 1861, twenty-one-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment, Company H, to fight for the Confederacy. Of the 120 original recruits in his company, Watkins was one of only seven to survive every one of its battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a “house full of young ‘rebels’ clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows,” he wrote this remarkable account—a memoir of a humble soldier fighting in the American Civil War, replete with tales of the common foot soldiers, commanders, Yankee enemies, victories, defeats, and the South’s ultimate surrender on April 26, 1865.

Letters of a Civil War Nurse

Letters of a Civil War Nurse
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9781496203762
ISBN-13 : 1496203763
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Letters of a Civil War Nurse by : Cornelia Hancock

She was called "The Florence Nightingale of America." From the fighting at Gettysburg to the capture of Richmond, this young Quaker nurse worked tirelessly to relieve the suffering of soldiers. She was one of the great heroines of the Union. Cornelia Hancock served in field and evacuating hospitals, in a contraband camp, and (defying authority) on the battlefield. Her letters to family members are witty, unsentimental, and full of indignation about the neglect of wounded soldiers and black refugees. Hancock was fiercely devoted to the welfare of the privates who had "nothing before them but hard marching, poor fare, and terrible fighting."