Lee and Jackson's Bloody Twelfth : The Letters of Irby Goodwin Scott, First Lieutenant, Company G, Putnam Light Infantry, Twelfth Georgia Volunteer Infantry / edited by Johnnie Perry Pearson.
Offering a fascinating look at an ordinary soldier's struggle to survive not only the horrors of combat but also the unrelenting hardship of camp life, Lee and Jackson's Bloody Twelfth brings together for the first time the extant correspondence of Confederate lieutenant Irby Goodwin Scott, who served in the hard-fighting Twelfth Georgia Infantry. The collection begins with Scott's first letter home from Richmond, Virginia, in June 1861, and ends with his last letter to his father in February 1865. Scott miraculously completed the journey from naïve recruit to hardened ve
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Ausgabe | 1st ed. |
Ort, Verlag, Jahr |
Knoxville, Tenn.
: University of Tennessee Press
, 2010
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Umfang | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
ISBN | 1-283-09854-7 9786613098542 1-57233-739-7 |
Sprache | Englisch |
Zusatzinfo | Seat of war -- Mountains of Northwestern Virginia -- Camp on the Greenbrier River -- Cannon fire on the Greenbrier -- Camp Allegheny -- 1862 Valley Campaign -- Seven Days to Cedar Mountain -- Fredericksburg front -- Second Northern Campaign -- Rapidan front -- Detached duty -- 1864 Overland Campaign -- Final word home -- Appendix : roster of the Company G, Putnam Light Infantry, Twelfth Georgia Infantry Regiment. |
Zusatzinfo | English |
Serie/Reihe | Voices of the Civil War series. |
Online-Zugang | EBSCO EBS 2024 |
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