Military Memoir of Confederate Artillery Narrative, Civil War, Gettysburg

  
A hard-hitting, authoritative narrative by one of Lee's finest young officers. Assessments of the military operations of the Army of Northern Virginia are honest, fair, and sound. Military Memoirs of a Confederate. Is regarded by many historians as one of the most important and dispassionate first-hand general accounts of the American Civil War. Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander had no use for bitter "Lost Cause" theories to explain the South's defeat.

Alexander was willing to objectively evaluate and criticize prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. The result is a clear-eyed assessment of the long, bloody conflict that forged a nation.

The memoir opens with Alexander, recently graduated from West Point, heading to Utah to tamp down the hostile actions of Mormons who had refused to receive a territorial governor appointed by President Buchanan. A few years later, Alexander finds himself on the opposite side of a much larger rebellion-this time aligned with Confederates bent on secession from the Union. In the years that follow, he is involved in most of the major battles of the East, including Manassas, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. Alexander describes each battle and battlefield in sharp detail. Few wartime narratives offer the insight and objectivity of Alexander's.

Civil war buffs and students of American history have much to learn from this superb personal narrative. I have been a private collector of Civil War books and ephemera for about 30 years.

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This item is in the category "Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "odylmacfineusedbooks" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.

1. Binding: Hardcover
2. Place of Publication: New York
3. Signed: No
4. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
5. Modified Item: No
6. Subject: Military & War; Longstreet; Gettysburg
7. Year Printed: 1910
8. Original/Facsimile: Original
9. Language: English
10. Special Attributes: Maps
11. Region: North America
12. Author: E. General CSA
13. Personalized: No
14. Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
15. Topic: Military; Civil War; Artillery; Gettysburg