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 44m
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 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Forgotten Heroes of the Civil War - 20 Book Collection
26CHAPTER III
2The Empty Sleeve or, The Life and Hardships of Henry H. Meacham, in the Union Army
27CHAPTER IV
3PREFACE.
28CHAPTER V
4The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers
29CHAPTER VI
5INTRODUCTION.
30CHAPTER VII
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6CHAPTER VIII.
31CHAPTER VIII
7CHAPTER XIII.
32CHAPTER IX
8CHAPTER XVII.
33CHAPTER X
9CHAPTER XXII.
34CHAPTER XI
10CHAPTER XXVI.
35CHAPTER XII
11CHAPTER XXIX.
36CHAPTER XIII
12Three Wisconsin Cushings
37CHAPTER XIV
13Three Wisconsin Cushings
38CHAPTER XV
14RECORDS AND APPRECIATIONS
39CHAPTER XVI
15THREE WISCONSIN CUSHINGS
40CHAPTER XVII
16A Military Genius: Life of Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland
41CHAPTER XVIII
17PREFACE.
42CHAPTER XIX
18A SEARCH FOR THE DOCUMENTS.
43Footnote
19MISS CARROLL'S MILITARY MAPS. (pt. 1)
44The History of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry: In the Late War of the Rebellion
20MISS CARROLL'S MILITARY MAPS. (pt. 2)
45PREFACE.
21MISS CARROLL'S MILITARY MAPS. (pt. 3)
46CHAPTER VI.
22The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade
47CHAPTER XI.
23INTRODUCTION
48CHAPTER XIII.
24CHAPTER I
49CHAPTER XV.
25CHAPTER II
50CHAPTER XVII.
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