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Turned Inside Out - Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac (Paperback)
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Turned Inside Out - Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac (Paperback)
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This memoir is no misty-eyed bit of nostalgia. Frank Wilkeson
writes, he tells us, because "the history of the fighting to
suppress the slave holders' rebellion, thus far written, has been
the work of commanding generals. The private soldiers who won the
battles, and lost them through the ignorance and incapacity of
commanders, have scarcely begun to write the history from their
point of view." Wilkeson's is a firsthand account of the fumbles
and near-cowardice of the commanders, of their squandering of
opportunity, materiel, and human life; yet it also portrays
foolishness, cupidity, recklessness, and sloth in the ranks.
Wilkeson believes stoutly in the virtues of private soldiers who
enlisted early in the war; he has a jaundiced eye for the
bounty-hunter, conscript, immigrant, and Johnny-come-lately
soldiers of the 1864 army. Nor does he cover the battlefield with
the haze of glory; he writes frankly and directly of the scenes of
death and mutilation, of battlegrounds covered with dead and dying
men and animals in the hot summer sun.
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