Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia
Title | Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Walker |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2007-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780820329338 |
Darling, I never wanted to gow home as bad in my life as I doo now and if they don’t give mee a furlow I am going any how. Written in December 1862 by Private Wright Vinson in Tennessee to his wife, Christiana, in Georgia, these lines go to the heart of why Scott Walker wrote this history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry, a unit of the famed Mercer’s Brigade. All but a few members of the Fifty-seventh lived within a close radius of eighty miles from each other. More than just an account of their military engagements, this is a collective biography of a close-knit group. Relatives and neighbors served and died side by side in the Fifty-seventh, and Walker excels at showing how family ties, friendships, and other intimate dynamics played out in wartime settings. Humane but not sentimental, the history abounds in episodes of real feeling: a starving soldier’s theft of a pie; another’s open confession, in a letter to his wife, that he may desert; a slave’s travails as a camp orderly. Drawing on memoirs and a trove of unpublished letters and diaries, Walker follows the soldiers of the Fifty-seventh as they push far into Unionist Kentucky, starve at the siege of Vicksburg, guard Union prisoners at the Andersonville stockade, defend Atlanta from Sherman, and more. Hardened fighters who would wish hell on an incompetent superior but break down at the sight of a dying Yankee, these are real people, as rarely seen in other Civil War histories.
Anthology of Magazine Verse for ...
Title | Anthology of Magazine Verse for ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 640 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
The Century
Title | The Century PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 888 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Periodicals |
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Anthology of Magazine Verse for ... and Year Book of American Poetry
Title | Anthology of Magazine Verse for ... and Year Book of American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 636 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | American poetry |
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Anthology of Magazine Verse
Title | Anthology of Magazine Verse PDF eBook |
Author | William Stanley Braithwaite |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 636 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
Vol. for 1958 includes "Anthology of poems from the seventeen previously published Braithwaite anthologies."
Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People
Title | Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 870 |
Release | 1925 |
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The Best Poems of 1922-1943
Title | The Best Poems of 1922-1943 PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 152 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | American poetry |
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