Little to eat and thin mud to drink : letters, diaries, and memoirs from the Red River campaigns, 1863-1864 / Gary D. Joiner, general editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Joiner, Gary D.

Series:

Voices of the Civil War series

Voices of the Civil War

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Red River Expedition, 1864--Personal narratives.

Red River Expedition, 1864.

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

United States.

History.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

xxix, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2007]

Contents:

Introduction / Gary D. Joiner

James A. Jarratt and the consolidated Crescent Regiment in the Red River Campaign of 1864 / edited by Gary D. Joiner

A Vermont soldier's experience at the Battle of Mansfield / edited by Gary D. Joiner

Lieutenant Edward Cunningham : a Kirby Smith loyalist complains about Richard Taylor / edited by Gary D. Joiner

Private Julius Knapp, U.S.A. : a Union soldier's point of view / edited by Gary D. Joiner and Jimmy H. Sandefur

Confederate letters / edited by Gary D. Joiner ... [et al.]

Union letters / edited by Gary D. Joiner ... [et al.]

Miss Sidney Harding : a daughter of privilege flees northward / edited by Gary D. Joiner and Cheryl H. White

Joseph Pitty Couthouy : the death of a sailor-scientist / edited by Gary D. Joiner and Jimmy H. Sandefur

J.E. Hewitt : commemorating Mansfield / edited by Gary D. Joiner

The Battle of Mansfield song / edited by Marilyn Murrell Segura Joiner

Appendix 1 : orders of battle for the Red River Campaign

Appendix 2 : Mississippi squadron vessels

Appendix 3 : Red River Campaign time line

Appendix 4 : Julius L. Knapp diary, January and February 1864

Appendix 5 : Sidney Harding diary entries before March 1864 and after the campaign.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-329) and index.

ISBN:

1572335718

9781572335714

OCLC:

69992286