A citizen-soldier's Civil War : the letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris / edited by Jerome Mushkat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voris, Alvin C.

Contributor:

Mushkat, Jerome.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voris, Alvin C--Correspondence.

Voris, Alvin C.

United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 67th (1861-1865).

United States.

History.

Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.

Ohio.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.

African Americans.

Generals--United States--Correspondence.

Generals.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Correspondence.

Autobiographies.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xi, 321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: "I Cannot Bear to Think of a Dismembered Country" 3

1 "Soldering Is Romantic Indeed" Illusion and the First Battle of Kernstown 19

2 "The 67th Has Not Been Stationary" The Shenandoah Valley Campaign 43

3 "Terrible Realities of a Protracted and Savage War" The Peninsula Campaign 67

4 "Never Ceasing Scramble for This Bauble Glory" The Charleston Siege and Fort Wagner 95

5 "Old Promptly Has Returned" Charleston Unconquered 133

6 "Days of Intense Anxiety and Peril" The Army of the James 156

7 "Constantly under Fire" The Bermuda Hundred Front 173

8 "A Desolated Country Cursed by Slavery and Slavery's War" Stalemate and Monotony at Bermuda Hundred 195

9 "I Would Not Feel It Any Degradation to Command Colored Troops" Trench Warfare, Deep Bottom, and Darbytown Road 211

10 "Each Day Brings the War So Much Near a Close" The Appomattox Campaign 241

11 "A Black Woman Had Rights" Reconstruction in Virginia 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-307) and index.

ISBN:

0875802982

OCLC:

49558787