Alonzo's War (eBook)

Letters from a Young Civil War Soldier

Mary Searing O'Shaughnessy (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
268 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-555-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The book details the everyday life of a private and gives an up-close account of what the details of a battle mean to a man participating in it as opposed to learning about generals’ battle plans and the movement of troops. These details bring a personal understanding to a student of the war.

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Alonzo Bryant Searing, a high school graduate aged 18, enlisted in the 11th New Jersey Volunteer Regiment in Dover, New Jersey in 1862 and served two years and ten months as a Private in the Union Army. His unit served in 27 engagements and he was slightly wounded twice. During that time he wrote 110 letters home to his sister. Twenty-five years later he edited these letters, adding information from his well-kept journals and his memory and had them published in The Morris County Journal newspaper from 1890-1893. The book is this collection of letters, written with a dry humor, which includes graphic descriptions of engagements, including some listings of death, wounding and sickness, opinions of the war, politics, religion, race, alcohol, deserters, camp conditions, hospital life, his own poetry and accounts of meetings with friends and relatives in nearby Army units.

Autor

Mary O’Shaughnessy is the granddaughter of Alonzo Bryant Searing.

Inhalt

ContentsForewordArrival at CampTrip to Washington, D. C.Near the Battle of Bull RunCulpepper, VirginiaMovements of the 2nd DivisionBrandy StationBattles of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court HouseReceived Sick FurloughReported back to Mansion House HospitalTransfer to Fort RenoReturn from Furlough Home “to vote” – Battle of Fort MortonReturn to Active Duty at the FrontBattle of Hatcher’s RunBattle for PetersburgCamp near Burkesville March from Burkesville to near AlexandriaGrand Review of the Army of the PotomacFarewellsGoing Home

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 19th-Century • American Civil War • American Literature • History • Literary Studies • military history • United States history
• ISBN-10: 1-61147-555-4 / 1611475554
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-555-5 / 9781611475555