Fighting for the Confederacy The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander

Name: Fighting for the Confederacy The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander
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ISBN: 9780807847220

ISBN-10: 0807847224

ISBN-13: 9780807847220

Edition: 1998 (Reprint)

Authors: Gary W. Gallagher, Edward Porter Alexander

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Originally published by UNC Press in 1989, Fighting for the Confederacy is one of the richest personal accounts in all of the vast literature on the Civil War. Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East, from First Manassas through Appomattox, and his duties brought him into frequent contact with most of the high command of the Army of Northern Virginia, including Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and James Longstreet. No other Civil War veteran of his stature matched Alexander's ability to discuss operations in penetrating detailthis is especially true of his description of Gettysburg. His narrative is also remarkable for its utterly candid appraisals of leaders…

Book details

List price: $36.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 3/2/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 692
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.53" tall
Weight: 2.442
Language: English

Gary W Gallagher is a civil war historian with a special interest in the military aspects of the war. He is the author or co-author of several books including Lee and His Generals in War and Memory and The Confederate War. He has also served as President of the Association of Preservation of Civil War sites. He is a professor of history at the University of Virginia.



Contents


Acknowledgments


Introduction


Editor's Note



Early Days



First Manassas or Bull Run



Fall & Winter after Bull Run



Seven Days



Second Manassas Campaign



Sharpsburg Campaign



The Fall of 1862



The Battle of Fredericksburg



Winter after Fredericksburg



Battle of Chancellorsville



The Gettysburg Campaign



Chickamauga



Chattanooga & Knoxville



Spring of 1864



Wilderness & Spottsylvania



North Anna & Drury's Bluff



Totopotomoy & Cold Harbor



Passage of James River



Siege of Petersburg



Fall of 1864



Fall & Winter of 1864 & '65



Appomattox


Notes


Index


Figures



Hogshead and platform



Hogs on "sawpit" timbers



Projectile with hole through long axis



Vicinity of First Manassas battlefield



Strategic situation prior to First Manassas



First issue Confederate flag



Army of Northern Virginia battle flag



Confederate flag with cross as union



Confederate flag surrounded by stars



Lt. Gen James Longstreet late in life



Peninsula of Virginia



Battlefield at Seven Pines



Battlefield at Mechanicsville



Battlefield at Gaines's Mill



Terrain at White Oak Swamp



Strategic situation on the Richmond-Petersburg front, 1862



Virginia and Maryland



Potomac River near Shepherdstown



Battlefield at Sharpsburg



Battlefield at Fredericksburg ...



General Lee's return to his lines after surrender



McLean House, Appomattox Court House