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Voices from Company D : diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia / edited by G. Ward Hubbs.
Van Pelt Library E551.5 5th .V65 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 5th.
- Confederate States of America.
- Soldiers--Alabama--Greensboro Region--Diaries.
- Soldiers.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Regimental histories.
- Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Alabama.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States.
- Alabama--Greensboro Region.
- Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Greensboro Region (Ala.)--Biography.
- Greensboro Region (Ala.).
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Confederate.
- Personal narratives.
- Diaries.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 441 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- An unprecedented contribution to the field of Civil War history, Voices from Company D collects writings from the diaries of eight members of the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment. Woven into a single chronological narrative, these writings provide a unique perspective not only on many of the war's battles and campaigns but also on aspects of life and culture in the nineteenth-century South, including friendship and kinship, duty and honor, and commitment and sacrifice. As part of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Guards marched under Stonewall Jackson and Jubal Early and fought throughout the war in such battles as Seven Pines, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, and finally Petersburg, where all but one of the Guards were captured. Readers will find singular descriptions of the towns and countryside the men saw, of battlefields and camps, of civilians caught in the path of the war. The diarists also commented on such topics as politics, religion, the home front, the presence of slaves alongside the troops, prices and inflation, troop morale, and leisure activities from reading to gambling. While the diaries impart a wealth of information about critical military engagements, they also convey the full range of the wartime experience: from terror to boredom, pride to regret, victory to defeat.
- Contents:
- The Diaries: "A record of events transpiring in the Campaign of the Greensboro Guards, 5th Regt Ala Vols" 1
- 1861 3
- 1862 75
- 1863 130
- 1864 209
- 1865 339.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0820325147
- OCLC:
- 50960814
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