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Title: Recollections of a Private Soldier in the army of the
Potomac.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
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culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and
social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
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edition identification: ++++ British Library Wilkeson, Frank; 1896.
xii, 196 p.; 8 . 9604.bbb.23.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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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