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Lee and Jackson's bloody twelfth : the letters of Irby Goodwin Scott, first lieutenant, Company G, Putnam Light Infantry, Twelfth Georgia Volunteer Infantry / edited by Johnnie Perry Pearson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Irby Goodwin, 1840-1925.
- Series:
- Voices of the Civil War series.
- Voices of the Civil War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scott, Irby Goodwin, 1840-1925--Correspondence.
- Scott, Irby Goodwin.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 12th.
- Confederate States of America.
- Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 12th. Company G.
- Soldiers--Georgia--Putnam County--Correspondence.
- Soldiers.
- Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Georgia.
- Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Putnam County (Ga.)--Biography.
- Putnam County (Ga.).
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
- United States.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental histories.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Virginia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offering a fascinating look at an ordinary soldier's struggle to survive not only the horrors of combat but also the unrelenting hardship of camp life, Lee and Jackson's Bloody Twelfth brings together for the first time the extant correspondence of Confederate lieutenant Irby Goodwin Scott, who served in the hard-fighting Twelfth Georgia Infantry. The collection begins with Scott's first letter home from Richmond, Virginia, in June 1861, and ends with his last letter to his father in February 1865. Scott miraculously completed the journey from naïve recruit to hardened ve
- Contents:
- Seat of war
- Mountains of Northwestern Virginia
- Camp on the Greenbrier River
- Cannon fire on the Greenbrier
- Camp Allegheny
- 1862 Valley Campaign
- Seven Days to Cedar Mountain
- Fredericksburg front
- Second Northern Campaign
- Rapidan front
- Detached duty
- 1864 Overland Campaign
- Final word home
- Appendix : roster of the Company G, Putnam Light Infantry, Twelfth Georgia Infantry Regiment.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-248) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-09854-7
- 9786613098542
- 1-57233-739-7
- OCLC:
- 704284859
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