HTF 1882 1st Americana Civil War Battles Journal 20th Maine Garrish Negro Troops

  
What a fantastic find for the Collector. Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Spottslyvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg... Theodore Gerrish was at them all with the Twentieth Maine Regiment. His vivid, compassionate, and often humorous telling is from the spot on the field where the minie-balls are thickest and the cannonading is deafening. This is one of the best private-soldier memoirs of the American Civil War in its scope and its minute details. The views Gerrish provides at the end of famous officers as seen from the private soldier's point of view include Grant, Meade, Hooker, Josuah Lawrence Chamberlain, and others with whom he came in contact. Chaplain, will you be kind enough to tell me what the two capital letters, B. Stand for, when they are printed together upon anything? It means before the birth of our Saviour, previous to the beginning of the Christian era. " He proceeded to give quite a profound theological exposition of the matter, and then inquired, "Why did you ask so unusual a question? " "O, nothin', " answered the innocent Dick, "only we have seen it stamped on these sheets of hard-tack, and were curious to know why it was there.

Of the African-Americans who fought, Gerrish says. As these two races march beside each other in the struggle of life, we only ask and demand that those who, in their poverty, did all they could to save the nation and assist its defenders, shall not be deprived of their sacred rights. Front-line letters and diaries of the Civil War bring an immediacy to a long-ago event and connect us to these everyday men and women who lived it.

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1. Year Printed: 1882
2. Modified Item: No
3. Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
4. Topic: Americana Civil War 20th Maine Gettysburg Surrende
5. Binding: Hardcover
6. Region: North America
7. Author: Theodore Gerrish
8. Subject: Americana Civil War 20th Maine Gettysburg Surrende
9. Personalized: No
10. Original/Facsimile: Original
11. Language: English
12. Character Family: Americana Civil War 20th Maine Gettysburg Surrende
13. Signed: No
14. Publisher: Hoyt, Fogg and Donham
15. Place of Publication: Portland
16. Special Attributes: 1st Edition