George S. Bernard was a Petersburg lawyer and member of the 12th
Virginia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Over the course of
his life, Bernard wrote extensively about his wartime experiences
and collected accounts from other veterans. In 1892, he published
"War Talks of Confederate Veterans, " a collection of firsthand
accounts focusing on the battles and campaigns of the 12th Virginia
that is widely read to this day. Bernard prepared a second volume
but was never able to publish it. After his death in 1912, his
papers became scattered or simply lost. But a series of finds,
culminating with the discovery of a cache of papers in Roanoke in
2004, have made it possible to reconstruct a complete manuscript of
the unpublished second volume.
The resulting book, "Civil War Talks, " contains speeches,
letters, Bernard's wartime diary, and other firsthand accounts of
the war not only by veterans of the Confederacy, such as General
William Mahone, but by Union veterans as well. Their personal
stories cover the major military campaigns in Virginia, Maryland,
and Pennsylvania--Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Gettysburg,
Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, and Appomattox. For the
general reader, this volume offers evocative testimonies focusing
on the experiences of individual soldiers. For scholars, it
provides convenient access to many accounts that, until now, have
not been widely available or have been simply unknown.
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