20 Must-Read Memoirs of Civil War
Firsthand Union and Confederate Voices of Battle, Nursing, Civilian Life, and RemembranceBy Heros von Borcke, Mary Boykin Chesnut, Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan, Adam Gurowski, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Madison Page, Louisa May Alcott, Jacob D. Cox, George T. Ulmer, Wayland Fuller Dunaway, S. Emma E. Edmonds, Various, Joseph Warren Keifer, Thomas Coleman Younger, Samuel S. Hildebrand, La Salle Corbell Pickett, Henry H. Meacham, David W. Stafford
Length282h 12m
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20 Must-Read Memoirs of Civil War assembles a capacious documentary literature of the American Civil War, juxtaposing battlefield recollection, military analysis, political observation, domestic testimony, and accounts of irregular warfare. Its range extends from commanders' strategic narratives to nurses' and civilians' intimate records, rendering the conflict as both a national crisis and a sequence of intensely local, embodied experiences. Particularly compelling are the contrasts between formal campaign histories, prison and hospital recollections, and narratives shaped by the war's fractured borderlands. The contributors include Union and Confederate officers, enlisted participants, observers, women writing from the home front and medical sphere, and European-born witnesses attentive to America's political experiment. Figures associated with major campaigns appear alongside chroniclers of guerrilla violence and everyday wartime survival. Together, these voices situate the volume within the nineteenth-century memoir tradition and the contested culture of Civil War remembrance, revealing how memory, allegiance, class, gender, and region informed retrospective accounts of the same catastrophe. This collection is recommended for students, historians, and general readers seeking an accessible yet intellectually rich introduction to Civil War testimony. By bringing divergent perspectives into one volume, it invites comparison rather than easy reconciliation. Readers will find valuable primary-source insights, varied literary forms, and an enduring dialogue about conflict, emancipation, leadership, loss, and the making of historical memory.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length282 hrs 12 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THEODORE ROOSEVELT Boxed Set (Annotated)
2Memoirs of the Confederate War for Independence
3PREFACE
4CHAPTER I
5CHAPTER II
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6CHAPTER III
7CHAPTER IV
8CHAPTER V
9CHAPTER VI
10CHAPTER VII
11CHAPTER VIII
12CHAPTER IX
13CHAPTER X
14CHAPTER XI
15CHAPTER XII
16CHAPTER XIII
17CHAPTER XIV
18CHAPTER XV
19CHAPTER XVI
20CHAPTER XVII
21CHAPTER XVIII
22CHAPTER XIX
23CHAPTER XX
24CHAPTER XXI
25CHAPTER XXII
26CHAPTER XXIII
27CHAPTER XXIV
28A Diary from Dixie
29INTRODUCTION The Author and Her Book
30I. CHARLESTON, S. C. November 8, 1860 - December 27, 1860
31II. MONTGOMERY, ALA. February 19, 1861 - March 11, 1861
32III. CHARLESTON, S. C. March 26, 1861 - April 15, 1861
33IV. CAMDEN, S. C. April 20, 1861 - April 23, 1861
34V. MONTGOMERY, ALA. April 27, 1861 - May 20, 1861
35VI. CHARLESTON, S. C. May 25, 1861 - June 24, 1861
36VII. RICHMOND, VA. June 27, 1861 - July 4, 1861
37VIII. FAUQUIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, VA. July 6, 1861 - July 11, 1861
38IX. RICHMOND, VA. July 13, 1861 - September 2, 1861
39X. CAMDEN, S. C. September 9, 1861-September 19, 1861
40XI. COLUMBIA, S. C. February 20, 1862 - July 21, 1862 (pt. 1)
41XI. COLUMBIA, S. C. February 20, 1862 - July 21, 1862 (pt. 2)
42XII. FLAT ROCK, N. C. August 1,1862 - August 8,1862
43XIII. PORTLAND, ALA. July 8, 1863 - July 30, 1863
44XIV. RICHMOND, VA. August 10, 1863 - September 7. 1863
45XV. CAMDEN, S. C. September 10, 1863 - November 5, 1863
46XVI. RICHMOND, VA. November 28,1863 - April 11,1864
47XVII. CAMDEN, S. C. May 8,1864 - June 1,1864
48XVIII. COLUMBIA, S. C. July 6,1864 - January 17,1865
49XIX. LINCOLNTON, N. C. February 16,1865 - March 15,1865
50XX. CHESTER, S. C. March 21, 1865 - May 1, 1865
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