A Soldier's Recollections McKim, First Maryland Infantry CSA, 1911, Civil War

  
A Soldier's Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate. W ith an Oration on the Motives and Aims of the Soldiers of the South. McKim records his remarkable military career which included service. In the artillery, infantry and cavalry as a private. With General Joe Johnston and Stonewall Jackson, as a staff officer under General George Steuart, and finally as chaplain of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment under Colonel Thomas Munford, in the brigade of General Fitzhugh Lee.

A scarce Confederate memoir from this Baltimore, Maryland native and member of the 2nd Maryland, CSA who was struck by four bullets on Culp's Hill at the Battle of Gettysburg. McKim was born in Baltimore and grew up at Belvedere, the ancestral home of Revolutionary War hero John Eager Howard. He earned degrees from the University of Virginia and the Virginia Theological Seminary and began his ministry as a Confederate chaplain during the Civil War. The author re-wrote and embellished his diary to produce an authentic and valuable narrative on soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia. Key words- book, diary, biography, campaign, army, civil war, Indian war, cavalry, infantry, regiment, brigade, Potomac, division, corps, medal, war, officer, cdv, military, American, soldier, navy, gun, gunboat, blockade, autograph, veteran, photograph, union, confederate, collectable, original, period, item, artillery, memorabilia, Antique, militaria, Virginia, Sherman, Grant, Lee, Jackson, Mollus, Commandery, Loyal Legion, Custer, Gettysburg, Lincoln, Davis, Colt, Spencer, Ames, Stanton, Farragut, Porter, ANV, Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Texas, Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas.