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The Civil War letters of Joshua K. Callaway / edited by Judith Lee Hallock.
Van Pelt Library E551.5 28th .C35 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Callaway, Joshua K.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Callaway, Joshua K--Correspondence.
- Callaway, Joshua K.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 28th.
- Confederate States of America.
- Soldiers--Alabama--Correspondence.
- Soldiers.
- Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Alabama.
- History.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States.
- Alabama--Biography.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Personal narratives -- Confederate.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [1997]
- Summary:
- From the Kentucky Campaign to Tullahoma, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, junior officer Joshua K. Callaway took part in some of the most critical campaigns of the Civil War. His twice-weekly letters home, written between April 1862 and November 1863, chronicle his gradual change from an ardent Confederate soldier to a weary veteran who longs to be at home. Callaway was a schoolteacher, husband, and father of two when he enlisted in the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment at the age of twenty-seven. Serving with the Army of the Tennessee, he campaigned in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, and north Georgia. Along the way this perceptive observer and gifted writer wrote a continuous narrative detailing the activities, concerns, hopes, fears, discomforts, and pleasures of a Confederate soldier in the field. Whether writing about combat, illness, encampments, or homesickness, Callaway makes even the everyday aspects of soldiering interesting. This large collection, seventy-four letters in all, is a valuable historical reference that provides new insights into life behind the front lines of the Civil War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0820318868
- OCLC:
- 36364090
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