All for the Union The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Name: All for the Union The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
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ISBN: 9780679738282

ISBN-10: 0679738282

ISBN-13: 9780679738282

Edition: 1992

Authors: Elisha Hunt Rhodes, Robert H. Rhodes

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All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 7/28/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.17" wide x 8.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English