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Four Years With The Iron Brigade: The Civil War Journals of William R. Ray, Company F, Seventh Wisconsin Volunteers

Door William R. Ray e.a.

Categorie
Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer
#328187-XE13
Titel
Four Years With The Iron Brigade: The Civil War Journals of William R. Ray, Company F, Seventh Wisconsin Volunteers
Auteur
Ray, William R. & Lance Herdegen & Sherry Murphy (editors)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
New York : Da Capo Press
Jaar van uitgave
2002
ISBN10
0306811197
ISBN13
9780306811197
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with some b/w photographs, maps, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The recently discovered journal of William Ray of the Seventh Wisconsin is the most important primary source ever of soldier life in one of the war's most famous fighting organizations. No other collection of letters or diaries comes close to it. Two days before his regiment left Wisconsin in 1861, the twenty-three-year-old blacksmith began, as he described it, "to keep account" of his life in what became the "Iron Brigade of the West." Ray's journal encompasses all aspects of the enlisted man's life-the battles, the hardships, the comradeship. And Ray saw most of the war from the front rank. He was wounded at Second Bull Run, again at Gettysburg, and yet a third time in the hell of the Wilderness. He penned something in his journal almost every day-occasionally just a ... (Lees verder)few lines, at other times thousands of words. Ray's candid assessments of officers and strategy, his vivid descriptions of marches and the fighting, and his evocative tales of foraging and daily army life fill a large gap in the historical record and give an unforgettable soldier's-eye view of the Civil War.
Pagina's
446
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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