Warriors of Freedom: 70 Memoirs of Union Soldiers
Seventy Firsthand Union Accounts of Battle, Freedom, Sacrifice, and Civil War MemoryBy Ulysses S. Grant, William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan, John D. Billings, Charles W. Reed, J. W. Gibson, George Perkins, Henry B. James, Henry Bascom Smith, Henry Martyn Kieffer, Charles A. Fuller, Willard W. Glazier, Joseph Warren Keifer, John McElroy, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, James Madison Page, Alonzo Cooper, Lemuel Abijah Abbott, Louis Richards, S. Emma E. Edmonds, Samuel Scoville, Henry H. Meacham, Frank A. Rollin, Richard Taylor, John Beatty, Leander Stillwell, Charles Anderson Dana, James Harvey Kidd, Jacob D. Cox, Stanton P. Allen, Hampton Sidney Thomas, James Harrison Wilson, Frederick L. Hitchcock, James R. Carnahan, Joseph W. Grant, Richard J. Fulfer, John Lockwood, Henry C. Meyer, D. H. Fletcher, Samuel H. Fletcher, H. Clay Trumbull, James Madison Stone, Allen Ripley Foote, Thomas Kirwan, E. H. Clement, Edward Mott Robbins, Martin A. Haynes, Grenville Mellen Dodge, John G. B. Adams, Ansel D. Nickerson, Warren Olney, Daniel Avery Langworthy, Joshua M. Addeman, Eugene Winslow Watson, Samuel Dana Greene, John Lorimer Worden, H. Ashton Ramsay, Bradford Ripley Jr. Wood, John Watson Foster, R. E. McBride, Charles Carleton Coffin, Wickham Hoffman, George T. Ulmer, William A. Canfield, Abner Doubleday, John M. Batten, Lawrence Van Alstyne, David W. Stafford, Charles C. Nott, John Levi Maile, William N. Tyler, John Azor Kellogg, James Pike, Lot D. Young, Susie King Taylor
Length503h 13m
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Warriors of Freedom: 70 Memoirs of Union Soldiers gathers firsthand Civil War testimony into a capacious record of military service, emancipation, captivity, command, and remembrance. Its selections range from battlefield narrative and campaign history to prison recollection, naval experience, medical observation, and reflections on the war's moral stakes. Grand strategic accounts stand beside intimate scenes of marching, deprivation, comradeship, and survival, making the volume a significant cross-section of nineteenth-century documentary prose. The contributors include prominent Union commanders alongside enlisted veterans, officers, journalists, reform-minded observers, and Susie King Taylor, whose presence enlarges the collection's account of wartime labor, race, gender, and freedom. Written from varied regional, social, and institutional positions, these memoirs belong to the rich postwar culture of Civil War commemoration, when participants contested the meanings of Union, citizenship, and national reconstruction. Their convergences and disagreements reveal remembrance itself as a historical field of struggle. This volume is especially recommended for readers seeking an accessible yet substantial encounter with the Civil War's many lived realities. By placing diverse voices and literary modes in dialogue, it offers both an educational archive and a compelling reading experience. Students, historians, and general readers alike will find in it a broad, nuanced meditation on sacrifice, liberation, and the enduring work of historical memory.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length503 hrs 13 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Mysteries of Masons Revealed - 8 Book Collection
2Hard Tack and Coffee: The Unwritten Story of Army Life
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.
25The Life of Uncle Billy: Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
26GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN to HIS COMRADES IN ARMS, VOLUNTEERS AND REGULARS
27PREFACE
28CHAPTER I FROM 1820 TO THE MEXICAN WAR 1820-1846
29CHAPTER II EARLY RECOLLECTIONS of CALIFORNIA 1846-1848
30CHAPTER III EARLY RECOLLECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA — (CONTINUED) 1849-1850
31CHAPTER IV MISSOURI, LOUISIANA, AND CALIFORNIA 1850-1855
32CHAPTER V CALIFORNIA 1855-1857
33CHAPTER VI CALIFORNIA, NEW YORK, AND KANSAS 1857-1859
34CHAPTER VII LOUISIANA 1859-1861
35CHAPTER VIII MISSOURI APRIL AND MAY, 1861
36CHAPTER IX FROM THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN TO PADUCAH - KENTUCKY AND MISSOURI 1861-1862
37CHAPTER X BATTLE of SHILOH MARCH AND APRIL, 1862
38CHAPTER XI SHILOH TO MEMPHIS APRIL TO JULY, 1862
39CHAPTER XII MEMPHIS TO ARKANSAS POST JULY, 1882 TO JANUARY, 1883
40CHAPTER XIII VICKSBURG JANUARY TO JULY, 1888
41CHAPTER XIV CHATTANOOGA AND KNOXVILLE JULY TO DECEMBER, 1863
42CHAPTER XV MERIDIAN CAMPAIGN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1864
43CHAPTER XVI ATLANTA CAMPAIGN-NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA TO BENEBAW MARCH, APRIL, AND MAY, 1864
44CHAPTER XVII ATLANTA CAMPAIGN — BATTLES ABOUT KENESAW MOUNTAIN JUNE, 1864
45CHAPTER XVIII ATLANTA CAMPAIGN — BATTLES ABOUT ATLANTA JULY, 1864
46CHAPTER XIX CAPTURE OF ATLANTA AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1864
47CHAPTER XX ATLANTA AND AFTER — PURSUIT OF HOOD SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1864
48CHAPTER XXI THE MARCH TO THE SEA FROM ATLANTA TO SAVANNAH NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1864 (pt. 1)
49CHAPTER XXI THE MARCH TO THE SEA FROM ATLANTA TO SAVANNAH NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1864 (pt. 2)
50CHAPTER XXII SAVANNAH AND POCOTALIGO DECEMBER, 1884, AND JANUARY, 1885
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