A gunner in Lee's army : the Civil War letters of Thomas Henry Carter / edited by Graham T. Dozier.

By:

Carter, Thomas Henry, 1831-1908

Contributor(s):

Dozier, Graham T [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Civil War America (Series)Publisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1469618753
9781469618753
9781469618760
1469618761

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

973.7/82092 23

LOC classification:

E605 .C29 2014

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Contents:

Life before the war -- 1861: 15 September-29 December 1861 -- From Northern Virginia to the Peninsula: 8 January-1 May 1862 -- To Maryland and back: 13 July-17 December 1862 -- Winter quarters: 20 January-25 June 1863 -- Guarding the Rapidan: 18 September-27 December 1863 -- From the Wilderness to the Valley: 17 March-31 December 1864 -- War's end: 1 January-7 March 1865 -- Life after the war.

Summary: In May 1861, the prominent young Virginian Thomas Henry Carter raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army during the American Civil War. Over the next four years he rose steadily in rank from captain to colonel, placing him among the senior artillerists in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. During the war, Carter wrote more than 100 revealing letters to his wife Susan about his service. This book presents Carter's letters, one of the best first-hand accounts of Lee's army and Confederate life in Virginia.

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In May 1861, the prominent young Virginian Thomas Henry Carter raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army during the American Civil War. Over the next four years he rose steadily in rank from captain to colonel, placing him among the senior artillerists in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. During the war, Carter wrote more than 100 revealing letters to his wife Susan about his service. This book presents Carter's letters, one of the best first-hand accounts of Lee's army and Confederate life in Virginia.

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