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As If It Were Glory - Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments (Hardcover)
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As If It Were Glory - Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments (Hardcover)
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In this powerful and moving memoir, Robert Beecham tells of his
Civil War experiences, both as an enlisted man in the fabled Iron
Brigade of the Army of the Potomac and as an officer commanding a
newly raised African-American unit. Written in 1902, Beecham
recounts his war experiences with a keen eye toward the daily life
of the soldier, the suffering and brutality of war, and the
remarkable acts of valor, by soldiers both black and white, that
punctuated the grind of long campaigns. As If It Were Glory is an
unforgettable account of the Civil War, unclouded by sentimentality
and insistent that the nation remain true to the cause for which it
fought. Beecham's war was a long one-he served from May 1861
through the completion of the war in the spring of 1865. With the
Iron Brigade he saw action at such momentous battles as
Chancellorsville and then at Gettysburg, where he was taken
prisoner. Returned to service in a prison exchange, Beecham was
promoted to first lieutenant of the 23rd United States Colored
Troops whom he lead in fierce fighting at the Battle of the Crater.
At the Crater, Beecham was wounded, again captured, and, after
eight months in a Confederate prison, escaped to find his way to
Annapolis just before the conclusion of the war. In his narrative,
Beecham celebrates the ingenuity of the enlisted man at the expense
of officers who are often arrogant or incompetent. He also chides
the altered recollections of fellow veterans who remember only
triumphs and forgot defeats. In one of the most powerful parts of
his memoir, Beecham pays tribute to the valor of the African
Americans who fought under his command and insists that they were
"the bravest and best soldiers that ever lived."
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