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Although modern authors continually produce important studies of the War Between the States, the firsthand accounts of those who were in the conflict remain the most valuable tools for understanding. This collection of letters and diaries provides glimpses into the lives of a diverse group of South Carolinians.
Among the seventeen accounts are the voices of women, including a Confederate spy; of officers like Captain Obidiah Hardin, who left his beloved Palmetto State to fight and die in Virginia before the war was even a year old; and of common men, like German immigrant Augustus Franks, whose love for his adopted state compelled him to staunchly defend the Confederacy. Collected from the archives of Winthrop University, these remarkable documents give voices and faces to the war as it affected South Carolina and her citizens.
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Alicia Hicks
reviewed South Carolina in the Civil War: The Confederate Experience in Letters and Diaries on March 16, 2012
South Carolina in the Civil War: The Confederate Experience in Letters and Diaries
This really is a seriously good book. Thoroughly and painstakingly researched, Priest has come up with what would probably have to be the definitive account of Pickett's ill-fated attack on July 3, 1863.
The book takes the reader through each portion of the battlefield at various times of the day and through the use of letters and diaries from the men there on the day, recounts their thoughts and misgivings and describes the placements of regiments and guns in almost forensic fashion.
Priest is also very particular in telling us how bodies of men moved about the battlefield once the shooting started, how the Confederate attack started to fall apart almost from the beginning and how Union reinforcements and artillery were quickly able to thin the Confederate lines from the flanks as well as the front. Such was the intensity of Federal fire, many Rebels did not even cross the Emmitsburg Rd.
Although more likely written for folks who already know something about the battle or the American Civil War, John Michael Priest has made another valuable contribution to the already large stable of Civil War books.
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