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Saddle bag and spinning wheel : being the Civil War letters of George W. Peddy, M.D., Surgeon, 56th Georgia Volunteer Regiment, C.S.A. and his wife Kate Featherston Peddy / edited by George Peddy Cuttino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peddy, George Washington, 1834-1913.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peddy, George Washington, 1834-1913.
- Peddy, George Washington.
- Peddy, Zerlina Catherine, 1838-1927.
- Peddy, Zerlina Catherine.
- Confederate States of America. Army.
- Surgeons.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States.
- History.
- Southern States.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Surgeons--Correspondence.
- Confederate States of America.
- Heard County (Ga.)--Biography.
- Heard County (Ga.).
- Surgeons--Southern States--Biography.
- American Civil War.
- Military Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- American Civil War.
- Military Medicine.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- Confederate.
- Biographies.
- Correspondence.
- Personal narratives.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 332 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Much ink and paper have been expended on the Civil War. But most of it has been for the professional observer's recollections or research results. Here is something different-the as-it-was-happening chronicle of two persons caught up in the events themselves.
- Here are 216 letters, the personal correspondence between George Washington Peddy, surgeon, 56th Georgia Volunteer Regiment, CSA, and his wife Kate. More of his letters (166) than hers (50) survived. Nevertheless the chronicle is complete (October 1861-April 1865).
- The letters were edited by a grandson of the letter writers, Georgie Peddy Cuttino. A professional historian himself, Cuttino recognized the value of these documents in their original form. The spontaneous intimacy, the grammatical and spelling idiosyncrasies, all in the vernacular of the times.
- What results is an unstudied, and consequently genuine and believable, portrayal of life during those trying times. This is the stuff of which real history is made-a chronicle of the unfamous about whom the historian knows so little but would like to know so much.
- Contents:
- Part I Coastal Operations in Georgia: 28 October 1861 - 18 April 1862 Nos. 1-55 7
- Part II Foray into Kentucky: 19 May 1862 - 31 December 1862 Nos. 56-93 93
- Part III Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga: 6 January 1863 - 18 April 1864 Nos. 94-166 143
- Part IV The Atlanta Campaign: 17 May 1864 - 17 September 1864 Nos. 167-197 241
- Part V Hood's Invasion of Tennessee Surrender in Carolina: 23 September 1864 - 17 April 1865 Nos. 198-216 289.
- Notes:
- Letters exchanged between Confederate surgeon G. Peddy and his wife, Z. Peddy, 1861-1865.
- Includes bibliographical and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780881461190
- OCLC:
- 6918702
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