American against American - 20 Gripping Civil War Memoirs & Diaries
Twenty Firsthand Union and Confederate Memoirs, Diaries, and TestimoniesBy 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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American against American: 20 Gripping Civil War Memoirs & Diaries assembles a capacious archive of conflict, testimony, and remembrance from the United States' defining internal war. Ranging from diaries and military narratives to reflections on campaigns, captivity, guerrilla violence, nursing, and civilian endurance, the volume juxtaposes terse eyewitness record with retrospective memoir. Its standout materials illuminate both celebrated operations and the war's intimate dislocations, revealing how national fracture was experienced in camps, homes, hospitals, and contested borderlands. The contributors include Union and Confederate officers, enlisted soldiers, political observers, women writers, medical workers, and participants in irregular warfare. Figures associated with major command, abolitionist and reformist currents, domestic literary culture, and the divided loyalties of the border states bring markedly different social positions to the record. Together, these voices situate the Civil War within broader histories of emancipation, citizenship, military modernization, gendered labor, and regional memory, while preserving the contradictions of contemporaneous testimony. This collection is especially valuable for readers seeking many Civil Wars rather than a single master narrative. Its varied forms invite close comparison of perception, bias, rhetoric, and recollection. Students, scholars, and general readers alike will find an instructive, compelling volume whose internal dialogue makes the war's human, political, and literary complexity newly legible.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length282 hrs 12 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
140 Civil War Memoirs of Confederate Soldiers
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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