FROM THE RAPIDEN TO RICHMOND AND THE SPOTTSYLVANIA CAMPAIGN A Sketch in Personal Narrative of the Scenes a Soldier Saw (Richmond Virginia [CSA] Howitzers Regimental History)

Dame, William Meade

Verlag: Green-Lucas Company, Baltimore, 1920

Beschreibung

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xvi, 213 pgs, portrait plates. Gilt titled cover and spine; tan cloth. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Covers are soiled and mottled, with minor rubbing to edges. Interior is clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: The author was a Private, First Company Richmond Howitzers. In 1861, though only in his seventeenth year, he became a private volunteer in the Confederate army of Virginia, serving in the first company of Richmond Howitzers until the surrender at Appomattox. Of his decision to be a minister he writes: "In the last two months of the war, in the trenches at Petersburg, came to me the definite purpose, born of the feeling that as God had saved my life and health through the dangers of a long and bloody war, I was bound to that line of duty for life which would most entirely serve Him. My own choice made me a soldier, and after the war a worker; the example, the training and the prayers of my parents, and the Spirit of God made me a minister." REFERENCES: DORN II #1119; COULTER 109 "This soldier's memoirs, written many years before publication, deal almost entirely with soldiers' life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the time it went into winter quarters on the Rapidan through the campaigns of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and Cold Harbor, to the final one at Appomattox."; NEVINS: I pg. 78: These memoirs by a man who became an Episcopal rector contain a wealth of human interest stories relative to the Army of Northern Virginia s last year. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1223049

Bibliografische Details

Titel: FROM THE RAPIDEN TO RICHMOND AND THE ...

Verlag: Green-Lucas Company, Baltimore

Erscheinungsdatum: 1920

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition