40 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers
Firsthand Confederate Accounts of Battle, Campaigns, Captivity, and Southern MemoryBy Heros von Borcke, John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee, George Cary Eggleston, James Longstreet, John Singleton Mosby, Edward M. Boykin, Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford, Isaac Hermann, Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, William Watson, Daniel P. Smith, James Carson Elliott, Thomas D. Duncan, David E. Johnston, Francis Warrington Dawson, John A. Sloan, La Salle Corbell Pickett, Henry Lane Stone, Basil Wilson Duke, Wayland Fuller Dunaway, Rufus H. Peck, Edward Alexander Moore, Raphael Semmes, Cole Younger, William Meade Dame, Caleb Huse, William G. Stevenson, Carlton McCarthy, Samuel Gibbs French, Richard L. Maury, J. Wilkinson, Alfred J. Vaughan, Luther W. Hopkins, John Porter Fort, John Milton Hubbard, John Call Dalton, James H. Wood, Frank M. Myers
Length317h 42m
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40 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers assembles a capacious and often contentious archive of memory, combining battlefield narrative, campaign recollection, naval experience, cavalry adventure, command perspective, and postwar reflection. Its varied prose ranges from formal military testimony to vivid anecdote and elegiac reminiscence, revealing how Confederate participants fashioned accounts of defeat, loyalty, courage, and loss. Read critically, the volume also exposes the omissions and ideological labor of Confederate memory, especially its relation to slavery, secession, and the later Lost Cause. The contributors include senior commanders, staff officers, enlisted observers, writers, and figures associated with army and naval service, among them Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet, John Singleton Mosby, Raphael Semmes, and Basil Wilson Duke. Their differing ranks, regions, and wartime roles prevent any single account from standing as definitive. Together, these voices illuminate both the immediate experience of war and the nineteenth-century culture of memoir through which veterans interpreted the Confederacy for later readers. This collection rewards students, historians, and general readers seeking a broad primary-source encounter with Civil War remembrance. Its forty perspectives invite comparison of style, evidence, silence, and self-justification, making the volume valuable not only for its military detail but also for the dialogue it creates between personal recollection and national history.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length317 hrs 42 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 1, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (Illustrated Edition)
2General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous "Marble Man"
3The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke
4PART I LEE'S EARLY LIFE
5I INTRODUCTION
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6II THE LEES OF VIRGINIA
7III GENERAL "LIGHT-HORSE HARRY" LEE
8IV STRATFORD
9V LEE'S EARLY MANHOOD AND CAREER IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY
10VI LEE AND SCOTT
11VII LEE RESIGNS
12VIII HIS RECEPTION AT RICHMOND
13IX LEE IN 1861
14X THE WAR BEGINS
15XI LEE'S ADVANCE INTO WESTERN VIRGINIA
16XII LEE'S LAST INTERVIEW WITH BISHOP MEADE
17PART II IN FRONT OF RICHMOND
18I PLAN OF THE FEDERAL CAMPAIGN
19II JOHNSTON IS WOUNDED
20III LEE ASSIGNED TO THE COMMAND — HIS FAMILY AT THE WHITE HOUSE
21IV LEE RESOLVES TO ATTACK
22V STUART'S "RIDE AROUND McCLELLAN"
23PART III ON THE CHICKAHOMINY
24I THE TWO ARMIES
25II LEE'S PLAN OF ASSAULT
26III THE BATTLE OF THE CHICKAHOMINY
27IV THE RETREAT
28V RICHMOND IN DANGER — LEE'S VIEWS
29VI LEE AND McCLELLAN — THEIR IDENTITY OF OPINION
30PART IV THE WAR ADVANCES NORTHWARD
31I LEE'S PROTEST
32II LEE'S MANOEUVRES
33III LEE ADVANCES FROM THE RAPIDAN
34IV JACKSON FLANKS GENERAL POPE
35V LEE FOLLOWS
36VI THE SECOND BATTLE OF MANASSAS
37PART V LEE INVADES MARYLAND
38I HIS DESIGNS
39II LEE IN MARYLAND
40III MOVEMENTS OF THE TWO ARMIES
41IV THE PRELUDE TO SHARPSBURG
42V THE BATTLE OF SHARPSBURG
43VI LEE AND McCLELLAN — THEIR MERITS IN THE MARYLAND CAMPAIGN
44VII LEE AND HIS MEN
45VIII LEE PASSES THE BLUE RIDGE
46IX LEE CONCENTRATES AT FREDERICKSBURG
47X THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG
48XI FINAL MOVEMENTS OF 1862
49XII THE YEAR OF BATTLES
50XIII LEE IN DECEMBER, 1862
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