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The remainder of the diary documents Eliza's everyday activities, conversations with Confederate soldiers, and visits with a range of family members and acquaintances, among them Julia Toombs, the well-known Georgia orator and Confederate Constitution author Robert Toombs's wife. Eliza is frequently upset by the Union soldier's treatment of ...
"Rebel Yell: The Civil War Diary of John Thomas Whatley, CSA", edited by John Wilson Cowart, is the diary of a confederate soldier whose work included preparing for the defense of Savannah, Georgia. The diary documents his life from March 2, 1862, till November 27, 1864.
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade (1990) Civil War Journal: The Battles (1998) with Brian C. Pohanka and Don Troiani; Civil War Journal: The Legacies (1999) with Brian C. Pohanka and Don Troiani; A Fire-Eater Remembers: The Confederate Memoir of Robert Barnwell Rhett (2000)
United States. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is a 1989 first novel by Allan Gurganus [1] which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for eight months. It won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, [2] was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and sold over four million copies.
34912692. For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War is a book by the Pulitzer Prize –winning author James M. McPherson. The book was published by Oxford University Press in 1997 and covers the lives and ideals of American Civil War soldiers from both sides of the war. Drawing from a compilation of over 25,000 letters and 250 ...
The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting against the United States forces to win the independence of the Southern states and uphold and expand the institution of slavery. [3]
3. Elisha Hunt Rhodes (March 21, 1842 – January 14, 1917) was an American soldier who served in the Union Army of the Potomac for the entire duration of the American Civil War, rising from corporal to colonel of his regiment by war's end. Rhodes' illustrative diary of his war service was quoted prominently in Ken Burns 's 1990 PBS documentary ...
Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1813 [1] – October 1, 1864) was a famous Confederate spy during the American Civil War.A socialite in Washington, D.C., during the period before the war, she moved in important political circles and cultivated friendships with presidents, generals, senators, and high-ranking military officers including John C. Calhoun and James Buchanan. [2]