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Captain George N. Bliss experienced almost every aspect of the
Civil War, except death. As an officer in the First Rhode Island
Cavalry, Bliss engaged in some twenty-seven actions. He
miraculously survived a skirmish in Waynesboro, Virginia, in
September 1864, when he single-handedly charged into the Black
Horse Cavalry. Badly injured and taken prisoner, Bliss was
consigned to the notorious Libby Prison in Richmond. Midway through
the war, Bliss also served for nine months at a Conscript Camp in
Connecticut, where he sat on several courts-martial. Bliss richly
detailed his war experiences in letters to his close friend, David
Gerald, who lived in Rhode Island. In absolute candor, Bliss
expressed his opinions on many topics and related a plethora of
firsthand details. A colorful writer, he also penned dispatches
from the field for a Providence newspaper. Meticulously transcribed
and annotated, this collection of letters is unusual because Bliss
did not mask the devastation and challenges of his intense wartime
experiences as he might have done in writing to a family member. In
conclusion, the editors describe how, following the war, Bliss
sought out the Confederates who almost killed him, forming personal
relationships that lasted for decades.
These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island
Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search
for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War
general Nathanael Greene. The papers - letters and documents
received by Greene as well as those sent by him - are carefully
edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in
full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance. Greene,
who served as quartermaster general of the army and later as
commander of the forces fighting in the southern theater, is
generally considered the ablest of Washington's generals. His
papers are a vital source of information on the war itself as well
as on the man.
These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island
Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search
for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War
general Nathanael Greene. The papers - letters and documents
received by Greene as well as those sent by him - are carefully
edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in
full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance. Greene,
who served as quartermaster general of the army and later as
commander of the forces fighting in the southern theater, is
generally considered the ablest of Washington's generals. His
papers are a vital source of information on the war itself as well
as on the man.
This thirteenth and final volume of the series devoted to the
papers of General Nathanael Greene includes correspondence to and
from Greene from the end of the Revolutionary War up to his death
in June 1786. It concludes with an epilogue and an addendum of
forty-six documents that have come to light since the volumes in
which they would have appeared have been published. The documents
presented here trace the dismissal of the Southern Army and details
of salutes offered to Greene by the citizens of Richmond,
Fredericksburg, and Alexandria, Virginia, and Annapolis and
Baltimore, Maryland, as he traveled back home. Greene spent three
years after the close of the war attempting to settle his wartime
debts, many of which were incurred as a result of guarantees he
made on behalf of army contractors. He sought assistance in New
York, Philadelphia, and Charleston; from the president of Congress;
and from Dutch investors, but was declined at every turn. Within a
year of relocating his family to Mulberry Grove plantation, near
Savannah, after finally reaching an agreement with one of his
principal creditors, Greene became ill. He died a week later, at
the age of forty-three.
These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island
Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search
for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War
general Nathanael Greene. The papers - letters and documents
received by Greene as well as those sent by him - are carefully
edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in
full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance. Greene,
who served as quartermaster general of the army and later as
commander of the forces fighting in the southern theater, is
generally considered the ablest of Washington's generals. His
papers are a vital source of information on the war itself as well
as on the man.
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