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From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton's Regulars : a Civil War memoir from the 121st New York regiment / Dewitt Clinton Beckwith ; edited by Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr.
Van Pelt Library E523.5 121st .B43 2023
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckwith, Dewitt Clinton, 1846-1926, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862.
- Appomattox Campaign, 1865.
- United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 121st (1861-1865).
- United States.
- Beckwith, Dewitt Clinton, 1846-1926.
- Beckwith, Dewitt Clinton.
- New York (State)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- New York (State).
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Civil War memoir from the 121st New York regiment
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
- Summary:
- "Sixty years after the Civil War, the 121st New York Volunteers (Upton's Regulars) finally published a history of their regiment. Its stated author was a man who had not served directly with the 121st but had based the book on a memoir written by a survivor who had enlisted at age 15. That boy, Dewitt Clinton Beckwith, published his memoir thirty years after the war in an obscure upstate New York newspaper, The Mohawk Democrat. For years, the "origin story" lay in plain sight, until editor Salvatore Cilella discovered the memoir while performing research for a regimental history"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Beckwith Goes for a Soldier
- Beckwith Enlists Again
- The Reality of War
- "Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg!"
- Salem Church
- Gettysburg
- Summer and Fall 1863
- The Overland Campaign
- Slaughter at Cold Harbor
- Saving Washington and into the Valley
- The Siege of Petersburg
- War's End
- Going Home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Maryann B. Sudo CW'63 and John B. Baxter, Jr., American History Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781476691121
- 1476691126
- OCLC:
- 1346215062
- Publisher Number:
- 99993952256
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