Format:
Online-Ressource (551 p.)
ISBN:
9781572338227
Series Statement:
Voices of the Civil War
Content:
Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley’s vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett’s Charge and subsequently captured. As it happens, the 1945 edition is actually a much-truncated version of Dooley’s original journal that fails to capture the ful
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Secession; A Few Words upon the Right of a State to Withdraw from the United States; Part Two: War; Introduction to John Dooley's "War Notes"; 1. "Oh How Scared I Felt!": The Second Manassas Campaign, August 1862; 2. "Oh, How I Ran!": The Maryland Campaign, September 1862; 3. "Resting from Our Labors": Camp in the Shenandoah Valley, September-November 1862; 4. "These Brave but Doomed Foreigners": Fredericksburg, December 1862; 5. "Everything Is Excessively Dull": Winter Quarters, December1862-March 1863
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6. "We Slept in the Trenches": Coastal Carolina and Southeastern Virginia, March-June 18637. "Into the Very Jaws of Destruction": The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863; 8. "Vae Victis": Prisoner, July 1863; 9. "Still Hoping for Better Things": Fort McHenry, July-August 1863; 10. "This Selfish, Cold Hearted, Cold Blooded Enemy": Johnson's Island, August-November 1863; 11. "Learning How Little Food . . . a Man May Live Upon": Johnson's Island, November 1863-March 1864; 12. "Anxiety about Virginia Affairs": Johnson's Island, March-July 1864
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13. "The Bad News Is Raging": Johnson's Island, August-November 186414. "I Am among the Number-Glory, Alleluia": From Johnson's Island to Richmond, December 1864-March 1865; 15. "All Is Confusion and Panic": In Search of the CSA, March-April 1865; 16. "A Bitter, Bitter Draught": Journey's End, April-May 1865; Part Three: Reconstruction; Lines Addressed to the Bronze Statue of the Goddess of Liberty Which Covers the Capitol's Dome, Washington, D.C.; Notes; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781572338302
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781572338227
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe John Dooley's Civil War : An Irish American's Journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment
Language:
English
Keywords:
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