The journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857-1878 / edited by Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins; with a foreword by Frank E. Vandiver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883.

Contributor:

Wiggins, Sarah Woolfolk, 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gorgas, Josiah, 1818-1883--Diaries.

Gorgas, Josiah.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Alabama.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Generals--Confederate States of America--Diaries.

Generals.

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

United States.

Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Josiah Gorgas was best known as the highly regarded Chief of Confederate Ordnance. Born in 1818, he attended West Point, served in the U.S. Army, and later, after marrying Amelia Gayle, daughter of a former Alabama governor, joined the Confederacy. After the Civil War he served as president of The University of Alabama until ill health forced him to resign. His journals, maintained between 1857 and 1878, reflect the family's economic successes and failures, detail the course of the South through the Civil War, and describe the ordeal of Reconstruction. Few journals cover such a sweep

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Editorial Policy; Genealogy of the Family of Josiah and Amelia Gorgas; Prologue; Antebellum; Chapter 1. ""Her Affectionate companionship is sufficient for me""; Chapter 2. ""My great regret is the wandering life we are obliged to lead""; Civil War; Chapter 3. ""Brilliant hopes which centered in the possession of Richmond""; Chapter 4. ""The confederacy totters to its destruction""; Chapter 5. ""Has war ever been carried on like this""; Chapter 6. "" Such a war, so relentless and so repugnant""

Chapter 7. ""Can we hold out much longer?""Chapter 8. ""The prospect is growing darker & darker about us; Reconstruction; Chapter 9. "" I am as one walking in a dream; Chapter 10. ""Our works progress slowly""; Chapter 11. ""Harassed with debt & surrounded with troubles""; Chapter 12. ""Our company affairs are very much embarrassed; Chapter 13. ""I am now daily teaching""; Chapter 14. "" I was not well pleased with the action of the Board of Trustees""; Epilogue; Biographical Directory; Bibliography; Manuscript Sources; Printed Sources; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-288) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8301-8

0-585-16196-8

OCLC:

769341335