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This is a new release of the original 1959 edition.
One of the best primary accounts of the Civil War by a Confederate.
John Dooley was the youngest son of Irish immigrants to Richmond,
Virginia, where his father prospered, and the family took a leading
position among Richmond's sizeable Irish community. Early in 1862,
John left his studies at Georgetown University to serve in the
First Virginia Infantry Regiment, in which his father John and
brother James also served. John's service took him to Second
Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Fredericksburg,
and Gettysburg; before that last battle, Dooley was elected a
lieutenant. On the third day at Gettysburg, Dooley swept up the
hill in Pickett's charge, where he was shot through both legs and
lay all night on the field, to be made a POW the next day. Held
until February 27, 1865, Dooley made his way back south to arrive
home very near the Confederacy's final collapse. Dooley's account
is valuable for the content of his service and because most of the
material came from his diary, with some interpolations (which are
indicated as such) that he made shortly after the war's end when
his memory was still fresh. Dooley's health seems to have been
permanently compromised by his wounds; he entered a Roman Catholic
seminary after the war and died in 1873 several months before his
ordination was to take place.
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