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| Preface | ||
| A Biographical Sketch of David Eldred Holt | ||
| 1 | Early Childhood | 1 |
| 2 | School Days | 10 |
| 3 | The Visions of Uncle Louis | 16 |
| 4 | Aunt Yates's Christmas Greeting | 22 |
| 5 | Summer Vacation | 26 |
| 6 | The Reformation of Ben Botts and the Tragedy of Old Bill Gibson | 31 |
| 7 | The Treatment of Slaves; Plantation Life | 35 |
| 8 | Mississippi Camp Meetings | 43 |
| 9 | Yellow Fever Rages, 1855 | 54 |
| 10 | War Clouds Gather, 1856-1861 | 59 |
| 11 | My First Taste of Battle; Jackson's Valley Campaign | 68 |
| 12 | The Seven Days' Battles | 81 |
| 13 | Richmond, Prison, and Illness | 93 |
| 14 | I Start for Bedford County, Virginia | 105 |
| 15 | I Meet Relatives | 110 |
| 16 | She Knew Washington; Visits and Recreation | 119 |
| 17 | I Return to the Army | 128 |
| 18 | An Excursion for Pie | 135 |
| 19 | The Battle of Fredericksburg | 141 |
| 20 | The English Flag and a New Colonel | 149 |
| 21 | Christmas Yearnings | 155 |
| 22 | We Are Praised by Old Stonewall | 159 |
| 23 | Chancellorsville | 165 |
| 24 | We Capture a Company | 171 |
| 25 | Back to Chancellorsville; Compton and Chapman Escape from the Yanks | 177 |
| 26 | The Ugly Contest; A Good Camp; We Drink Brandy | 184 |
| 27 | A Blue Patch; The March to Pennsylvania; Bill Secures an Outfit | 189 |
| 28 | The Battle of Gettysburg | 194 |
| 29 | Retreat from Gettysburg; About My Personal Appearance | 200 |
| 30 | Back to Virginia; Camp Life; Bad News from Home | 207 |
| 31 | Bristoe Campaign; Camp Starvation | 212 |
| 32 | Rooster Chase; Music; A Visit to My Brother | 219 |
| 33 | Toting Turnips; A Mess of Wild Mustard | 225 |
| 34 | Religious Meetings | 231 |
| 35 | The Battle of the Wilderness | 238 |
| 36 | Odd Happenings | 247 |
| 37 | We Hold the Salient | 255 |
| 38 | On the March; Tommy and the Yank | 263 |
| 39 | The Wrong General Wright; Quarreling in the Ranks; J. B. Starr | 270 |
| 40 | Cold Harbor; An Armistice | 276 |
| 41 | Petersburg; Skirmishing; I Dig a Well | 281 |
| 42 | The Crater | 286 |
| 43 | A Scouting Expedition | 290 |
| 44 | General Mahone Is Toned Down | 294 |
| 45 | To Richmond and Back | 297 |
| 46 | Wilson's Raid | 300 |
| 47 | A Night in a Tavern | 303 |
| 48 | We Surrender | 307 |
| 49 | Bull Pens | 314 |
| 50 | Prisoner at Point Lookout | 322 |
| 51 | I Leave Prison | 332 |
| 52 | Homeward Bound | 337 |
| Appendix | 345 | |
| Bibliographical Note | 361 | |
| Index | 365 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Robert Sheriff
reviewed A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt on October 18, 2017 A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt
This is an excellent book to listen to in the audible format since there are many voices that are done quite well and some apparently the actual people.
On the negative side this book is almost totally about World War II. This book is a follow up to The Greatest Generation. I was not paying close enough attention since I thought this was that book. But I do not think I will be following up by reading that book.
I am not fond of books that glorify war. I am not fond of books that act as if wars are about protecting our freedom. This book certainly recognizes that plenty of people don't come home from war but I think it leans heavily on the glory of the sacrifice. World War II is the war that people like to see as the one where we were all in it together and we were all fighting for the same thing. This book gives absolutely no alternative viewpoints.
Well let me take that back just a smidgen. There is the story about the 16 Negroes Who were trained to be paratroopers. After they were trained they were shipped up to Washington state to fight forest fires!
There was much mention in reminiscences by people who said their father never talked about the war. And there were some indirect (very indirect) references to the horror of war. There were statistics about how many tons of bombs and flights of the carpet bombing B-17s in Europe. But war was very sanitized. While I would have to say that it is hard to imagine a pro war book, this book leans a little that way. But given the title that should not be totally surprising. This is after all a book about American heroes.
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