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A Yankee At Arms : The Diary Of Lieutenant Augustus D. Ayling, 29th Massachusetts Volunteers

Title
- Voices Of The Civil War Series
Attribution
edited by Charles F. Herberger
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, University of Tennessee Press, 1999
Availability
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(LOWER LEVEL) E513.5 29th .A95 1999 AVAILABLE
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Authors
- Ayling, Augustus D
- Herberger, Charles F
Subject
Places in this work
- Massachusetts
- United States
Notes
- "When New Englander Augustus Ayling responded to President Lincoln’s first call for volunteers at the outbreak of the Civil War, he began a diary that he would keep until the end of the conflict. That recently discovered manuscript now provides us with an unusual panorama of the Civil War as seen by one man who fought in three different theaters." "Throughout his diary, Ayling eloquently described the difficult conditions under which soldiers served, revealing both the pleasures and problems of an officer’s life. As lively and dramatic in its reportage of key events as it is meticulous in detail, Ayling’s diary provides valuable perspectives on both the battlefield and the homefront."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Foreword / Frank L. Byrne
- 1. Enlistment and Fort Monroe
- 2. The Monitor and the Merrimack and Newport News
- 3. An Infantry Officer in the Army of the Potomac
- 4. McClellan’s Retreat and the Hospitalization of Lieutenant Ayling
- 5. Lieutenant Ayling on Sick Leave
- 6. The Fredericksburg Campaign
- 7. Winter Camp and Transfer to Newport News
- 8. A Wartime Love Affair
- 9. Occupation Duty in Kentucky
- 10. Down the Mississippi and the Siege of Vicksburg
- 11. Occupation in Mississippi and Return to Kentucky
- 12. Travel to Knoxville on Return from Sick Leave
- 13. Winter Camp in Eastern Tennessee
- 14. Hard Times and a Depleted Company
- 15. The End of the War
- 16. Postwar Duty in Richmond, Virginia
- 17. Last Days in Richmond
ISBN
- 1572330341
LCCN
- 98040114
Open Library ID
- /b/OL378067M