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A Citizen-soldier’s Civil War : The Letters Of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris

Attribution
edited by Jerome Mushkat
Publication Details
Book, Northern Illinois University Press, 2002
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(LOWER LEVEL) E525.5 67th .V67 2002 AVAILABLE
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Authors
- Voris, Alvin C
- Mushkat, Jerome
Subject
Places in this work
- Ohio
- United States
Notes
- "When "citizen-soldier" Alvin Coe Voris wrote his first letter to his beloved wife, Lydia, in 1861, he embarked on a correspondence that would span the duration of the Civil War. A former Ohio legislator, Voris filled his letters with keen insights into the daily life of soldiers, army politics, and such issues as the morality of combat and the evils of slavery. Often heartwrenching and invariably gripping, the 428 letters collected in this volume form an unbroken and unique Civil War chronicle."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Introduction: "I Cannot Bear to Think of a Dismembered Country"
- 1. Soldering Is Romantic Indeed: Illusion and the First Battle of Kernstown
- 2. The 67th Has Not Been Stationary: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign
- 3. Terrible Realities of a Protracted and Savage War: The Peninsula Campaign
- 4. Never Ceasing Scramble for This Bauble Glory: The Charleston Siege and Fort Wagner
- 5. Old Promptly Has Returned: Charleston Unconquered
- 6. Days of Intense Anxiety and Peril: The Army of the James
- 7. Constantly under Fire: The Bermuda Hundred Front
- 8. A Desolated Country Cursed by Slavery and Slavery’s War: Stalemate and Monotony at Bermuda Hundred
- 9. I Would Not Feel It Any Degradation to Command Colored Troops: Trench Warfare, Deep Bottom, and Darbytown Road
- 10. Each Day Brings the War So Much Near a Close: The Appomattox Campaign
- 11. A Black Woman Had Rights: Reconstruction in Virginia
ISBN
- 0875802982
LCCN
- 2002067766
Open Library ID
- /b/OL3567983M