This Will Make a Man of Me (eBook)

The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War

James M. Scythes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
196 Seiten
Lehigh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61146-219-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents a firsthand account of the experiences of seventeen-year-old Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell during Major General George McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign. Howell’s story offers the reader a unique perspective of a young man coming of age in the Union army during the Civil War.

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This book offers a unique firsthand account of the experiences of a teenage officer in America's Civil War. Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell was only seventeen years old when he received his commission to serve the 3rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Featuring sixty-five letters that Howell wrote home to his family, this book describes soldier life in the Army of the Potomac during the spring and summer of 1862, focusing on Howell's experiences during Major General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. Howell's letters tell the story of a young man coming of age in the army. He wrote to his mother and siblings about the particular challenges he faced in seeking to earn the respect of both the men he commanded and his superiors. Unfortunately, however, the young lieutenant's life was cut short in his very first combat experience when he was struck in the abdomen by a cannonball and nearly torn in two during the Battle of Gaines' Mill. This book records Howell's tragic story, and it traces his distinctive perception of the Civil War as a vehicle enabling him to transition into manhood and to prove his masculinity.

Autor

James Scythes is instructor of history at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Inhalt

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsPreface IntroductionPart I:“The rough life of a soldier”Part II:“Hot work soon enough”ConclusionNotesBibliographyAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.7.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 13 Illustrations including: - 13 Black & White Illustrations.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: American History • Civil War Studies • military history • Nineteenth-Century history
• ISBN-10: 1-61146-219-3 / 1611462193
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61146-219-7 / 9781611462197