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John Dooley's Civil War : an Irish American's journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment / edited by Robert Emmett Curran.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dooley, John, 1842-1873.
- Series:
- Voices of the Civil War.
- Voices of the Civil War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dooley, John, 1842-1873.
- Dooley, John.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 1st.
- Confederate States of America.
- Johnson Island Prison--Biography.
- Johnson Island Prison.
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Soldiers.
- Irish American soldiers--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Irish American soldiers.
- Prisoners of war--Ohio--Johnson Island--Biography.
- Prisoners of war.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- Virginia.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (551 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley's vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett's Charge and subsequently captured. As it happens, the 1945 edition is actually a much-truncated version of Dooley's original journal that fails to capture
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Secession
- pt. 2. War
- pt. 3. Reconstruction.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-12504-7
- 9786613528902
- 1-57233-830-X
- OCLC:
- 776108942
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