
Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer
By Gilbert Moxley SorrelLength8h 56m
About this audiobook
Sorrel's memoir, "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer", was published posthumously, in 1905. Historian Douglas Southall Freeman deemed Sorrel's book one of the best accounts of the personalities of the major players in the Confederacy, characterized by "a hundred touches of humor and revealing strokes of swift characterization."
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GenreHistory
Length8 hrs 56 mins
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Publish dateNov 27, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer
20Chapter XVIII After Fredericksburg—Reminiscences
2Introduction
21Chapter XIX To South Virginia for Supplies
3Chapter I Battle of Manassas, July 21, 1861
22Chapter XX Preparing for Gettysburg
4Chapter II After Manassas at Centerville
23Chapter XXI Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, 1863
5Chapter III Reminiscences and Horses
24Chapter XXII Gettysburg Aftermath
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6Chapter IV Sketches
25Chapter XXIII In Virginia Again
7Chapter V Our National Hymn
26Chapter XXIV Longstreet to Reinforce Bragg
8Chapter VI The Peninsula and Battle of Williamsburg, May 5, 1862
27Chapter XXV Battle of Chickamauga, September 20, 1863
9Chapter VII Battle of Seven Pines, May 31, 1862
28Chapter XXVI Chattanooga—Incidents
10Chapter VIII Battles of the Chickahominy, June 26 to July 2, 1862
29Chapter XXVII The East Tennessee Campaign, November 1863, to April, 1864
11Chapter IX Rivalry and More Reminiscenses
30Chapter XXVIII The East Tennessee Campaign, Continued
12Chapter X Second Battle of Manassas, August 29 and 30, 1862
31Chapter XXIX At Home in Savannah—Sketches
13Chapter XI Battles of South Mountain (Boonsboro Gap) and Sharpsburg (Antietam), Sept. 14th and 17th, 1862
32Chapter XXX Battle of the Wilderness, May 6, 1864.
14Chapter XII Battle of Sharpsburg, Continued
33Chapter XXXI Coincidences—Longstreet's Successor
15Chapter XIII Battle of Sharpsburg, Concluded
34Chapter XXXII Battles of Spottsylvania C. H., May 10 and 12, and Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864
16Chapter XIV Our Personnel—Visitors
35Chapter XXXIII The Siege of Petersburg, June, 1864, to March, 1865
17Chapter XV The Staff
36Chapter XXXIV Longstreet's Return—Farewell to Lee
18Chapter XVI Events Preceding Fredericksburg
37Appendix
19Chapter XVII Battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862