Download or read book Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer written by Gilbert Moxley Sorrel and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorrel's memoir, "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer", was published posthumously, in 1905. Historian Douglas Southall Freeman deemed Sorrel's book one of the best accounts of the personalities of the major players in the Confederacy, characterized by "a hundred touches of humor and revealing strokes of swift characterization."

Download or read book Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer written by Gilbert Moxley Sorrel and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir takes the reader inside the workings of the Confederate army staff. Sorrel was a relatively unknown officer who rose through the ranks to become General Longstreet's most trusted associate. Sorrel's memoir makes no claims to strategic analysis. It simply relates what he saw and the events of which he was a part. His vantage point was, however, in many ways unique. His service with Longstreet brought him into the thick of many of the war's decisive engagements.

Download or read book Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer written by Gilbert Moxley Sorrel and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorrel's memoir, "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer", was published posthumously, in 1905. Historian Douglas Southall Freeman deemed Sorrel's book one of the best accounts of the personalities of the major players in the Confederacy, characterized by "a hundred touches of humor and revealing strokes of swift characterization."

Download or read book Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer written by Gilbert Moxley Sorrel and published by Madison & Adams Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. Sorrel's memoir, "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer", was published posthumously, in 1905. Historian Douglas Southall Freeman deemed Sorrel's book one of the best accounts of the personalities of the major players in the Confederacy, characterized by "a hundred touches of humor and revealing strokes of swift characterization."

Download or read book Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer written by G. Moxley Sorrel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-13 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer , published in 1905 after General Sorrel's death, is considered one of the most interesting Civil War memoirs as it describes many of the famous Confederates in personal detail.

Download or read book Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer written by Gilbert Moxley Sorrel and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir takes the reader inside the workings of the Confederate army staff. Sorrel was a relatively unknown officer who rose through the ranks to become General Longstreet's most trusted associate. Sorrel's memoir makes no claims to strategic analysis. It simply relates what he saw and the events of which he was a part. His vantage point was, however, in many ways unique. His service with Longstreet brought him into the thick of many of the war's decisive engagements.

Download or read book Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer written by G. Moxley Sorrel and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Longstreet's] de facto chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Moxley Sorrel, was the best staff officer in the Confederacy." The Journal of Military History At the tender age of just twenty-three Gilbert Moxley Sorrel earned his commission as captain and was posted as General James Longstreet's chief-of-staff. Through the next three years he would remain by Longstreet's side, rising to the ranks of Major and Lieutenant Colonel, until he was eventually given command of his own brigade within Major General William Mahone's division. Moxley Sorrel made an immediate impression on Longstreet who wrote that he "came into the battle as gaily as a beau, and seemed to receive orders which threw him into more exposed positions with particular delight." Indeed he went on to witness some of the most famous battles of the American Civil War and his experiences are recorded here, from Manassas to Seven Pines, Sharpsburg to Fredericksburg, Gettysburg to Petersburg. He was even with Longstreet at the Battle of Wilderness when Longstreet was struck down by a bullet coming from their own men. As Longstreet's right hand man through the war until 1864 Moxley Sorrel was put into contact with some of the most remarkable figures of the Confederate army, and they are all vividly portrayed within his memoirs. At Petersburg, during the Battle of Hatcher's Run, he was wounded and feared mortally so, eventually he recovered but his military career ended here. The historian Douglas Southall Freeman wrote that Moxely Sorrel's Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer contains "a hundred touches of humor and revealing strokes of swift characterisation." Once the war ended Moxley Sorrel returned to the south where he entered business. His Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer was published in 1905. He died in 1901 in Roanoke, Virginia.

Download or read book Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer written by Evelyn Sieburg and published by Burd Street Press. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer written by James Wylie Ratchford and published by White Mane Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major James Ratchford's reminiscences, unrevealed for more than one hundred years, provide a different perspective on the generals he served and the more than thirty engagements he survived. As adjutant general to Daniel Harvey Hill, John B. Hood, and Stephen D. Lee, Ratchford participated in major battles in the East, such as Fredericksburg and the Seven Days, witnessed the siege of Atlanta, and finally surrendered with Joseph E. Johnston's army at Greensboro, North Carolina, in April 1865. Professor Sieburg, Ratchford's granddaughter, has edited her ancestor's accounts of his close contacts with such Confederate leaders as Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, as well as his descriptions of the combat soldier's life. Ratchford's job as a courier enabled him to shed new light on the famous lost dispatch, which many believe led to the Confederate defeat at Antietam (Sharpsburg). Major Ratchford claimed little knowledge of the larger military picture, but describes in a simple, straightforward style the humor, heroism, and honor which were part of that epic conflict.

Download or read book Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer written by Gen. G. Moxley Sorrel and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Military Memoirs Of A Confederate A Critical Narrative Illustrated Edition written by General Edward Porter Alexander and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack - 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. “First published in 1907, 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. Lee. 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 Military Memoirs of a Confederate . Civil war buffs and students of American history have much to learn from this superb personal narrative”-Paperback Edition

Download or read book Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer Under Johnston Jackson and Lee written by McHenry Howard and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer written by Sorrel G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Recollections of a Maryland Confederate Soldier and Staff Officer Under Johnston Jackson and Lee written by McHenry Howard and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXI Fort Delaware Fort Delaware is built on a small flat island, of a few acres, in the middle of the river or bay, about thirty or forty miles below Philadelphia and opposite the town of Salem, New Jersey, on the east side and Delaware " City" --so pretentiously called--at the mouth of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, connecting the two bays, on the west side. And perhaps the island may be more properly said to be in the upper part of the bay, for the water is two or more miles wide and brackish, particularly on flood tides, which push up this far. It is called Pea Patch Island, and a doubtful story was that it was originally formed by the sinking of a vessel loaded with peas which germinated and caused an accumulation of mud and sand. Probably this is one of those fictions which are so often invented to account for natural phenomena. The fort itself, situated on the lower end of the island, is one of those high stone structures of which so many were built before the war and which were supposed to be impregnable to an attack by vessels of war until the day of ironclads. It was perhaps an octagon in shape, at any rate many sided, and one section of the upper casemates, without guns, was used as rooms, divided by thick partition walls of brick and opening at the back on connecting passages. These were occupied during about half of the time that I was there as quarters for Confederate officers of higher rank and other somewhat favored prisoners, and life in them was more comfortable and had some special privileges and advantages. I suppose the walls of the fort enclosed an area of between one and two acres and the interior space was open. Separated from the fort by some distance was the "pen" or quarters for the many thousand...

Download or read book Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer written by G. Sorrel and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-07-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1905, these are the memoirs of Confederate General Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, who served as Lt. Colonel and Chief of Staff for Longstreet's 1st Army Corps and Brigadier General commanding Sorrel's Brigade, A.P. Hill's 3rd Army Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.

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Download or read book The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J Seymour written by Terry L. Jones and published by Savas Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Confederate captain from the 1st Louisiana Brigade uses his skill as a newspaper editor to recount his experiences during the U.S. Civil War. Like many other soldiers who fought in the Civil War, New Orleans newspaper editor William J. Seymour left behind an account of his wartime experiences. It is the only memoir by any field or staff officer of the famous 1st Louisiana Brigade (Hays’ Brigade) in the Army of Northern Virginia. Long out of print, The Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Tiger is available once more in this updated and completely revised edition by award-winning author Terry L. Jones. Seymour’s invaluable narrative begins with his service as a volunteer aide to Confederate Gen. Johnson K. Duncan during the 1862 New Orleans campaign. Utilizing his journalistic background and eye for detail, Seymour recalls the siege of Fort Jackson (the only Southern soldier’s account except for official reports), the bickering and confusion among Confederate officers, and the subsequent mutiny and surrender of the fort’s defenders. Jailed after the fall of New Orleans for violating Maj. Gen. Ben Butler’s censorship order, Seymour was eventually released and joined General Hays’ staff in Virginia. Seymour’s memoirs cover his experiences in the army of Northern Virginia, including the campaigns of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Shenandoah Valley, ending with the Battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. His pen recounts the activities of the Louisiana Brigade while offering a critical analysis of the tactics and strategies employed by the army. A perceptive and articulate officer, Seymour left behind an invaluable account of the Civil War’s drudgery and horror, pomp and glory. Terry L. Jones’ spare and judicious editing enhances Seymour’s memoirs to create an indispensable resource for Civil War historians and enthusiasts.