Forgotten Heroes of the Civil War - 20 Book Collection
Union and Confederate Memoirs, Campaign Chronicles, and Voices of SacrificeBy Henry H. Meacham, Frank M. Myers, Theron Wilber Haight, Sarah Ellen Blackwell, S. B. Barron, William H. Osborne, Alfred S. Roe, W. W. Goldsborough, Carlton McCarthy, Samuel Scoville, Richard L. Maury, David Lathrop, James Harrison Wilson, Dudley Landon Vaill, Francis J. Parker, George C. Sumner, William Young Warren Ripley, Basil Wilson Duke, Jewett Palmer, William E. Barton
Length163h 47m
About this audiobook
Forgotten Heroes of the Civil War gathers twenty volumes that restore the conflict's human scale through memoir, regimental history, biography, battlefield narrative, and reflective historical prose. Its range encompasses tactical recollection and military analysis alongside accounts of service, sacrifice, captivity, leadership, and remembrance. Rather than reducing the war to a familiar pantheon, the collection foregrounds lesser-known actors and episodes, making the volume a valuable counterpoint to monumental narratives of Union and Confederate command. The contributors include veterans, officers, historians, clergy, and public writers whose perspectives emerge from the culture of postwar commemoration. Their varied regional affiliations and professional backgrounds illuminate how Civil War memory was shaped by eyewitness testimony, local loyalties, veterans' organizations, and the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century desire to preserve rapidly receding experience. Together, these voices participate in the broader tradition of Civil War reminiscence while revealing its tensions: between documentation and nostalgia, martial heroism and private loss, national reunion and unresolved sectional memory. This collection is recommended for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the Civil War's many lived histories. Its multiplicity of forms and viewpoints rewards comparative reading, supports study of memory and historiography, and invites sustained dialogue among accounts that complicate one another. It offers both an educational archive and a compelling encounter with the individuals history too often leaves unnamed.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length163 hrs 47 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Forgotten Heroes of the Civil War - 20 Book Collection
26CHAPTER VIII
2The Empty Sleeve or, The Life and Hardships of Henry H. Meacham, in the Union Army
27CHAPTER IX
3PREFACE.
28The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade
4The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers
29INTRODUCTION
5INTRODUCTION.
30CHAPTER I
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6CHAPTER VIII.
31CHAPTER II
7CHAPTER XIII.
32CHAPTER III
8CHAPTER XVII.
33CHAPTER IV
9CHAPTER XXII.
34CHAPTER V
10CHAPTER XXVI.
35CHAPTER VI
11CHAPTER XXIX.
36CHAPTER VII
12Three Wisconsin Cushings
37CHAPTER VIII
13RECORDS AND APPRECIATIONS
38CHAPTER IX
14THREE WISCONSIN CUSHINGS
39CHAPTER X
15A Military Genius: Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland
40CHAPTER XI
16PREFACE.
41CHAPTER XII
17A SEARCH FOR THE DOCUMENTS.
42CHAPTER XIII
18MISS CARROLL'S MILITARY MAPS.
43CHAPTER XIV
19CHAPTER I
44CHAPTER XV
20CHAPTER II
45CHAPTER XVI
21CHAPTER III
46CHAPTER XVII
22CHAPTER IV
47CHAPTER XVIII
23CHAPTER V
48CHAPTER XIX
24CHAPTER VI
49Footnote
25CHAPTER VII
50The History of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry: In the Late War of the Rebellion
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