The Confederate reader.
"In The Confederate Reader the soldiers and civilians who experienced the searing events of 1860 through 1865 tell in their own words the story of the Confederacy and the Civil War. The Confederate Reader is a chronological selection from the southern writing of the time, writings that were ava...
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New York :
Longmans, Green,
1957.
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Table of Contents:
- 1860: To dissolve the Union
- 1861: Fort Sumter ; The tune of Dixie ; A visit to the capitol at Montgomery ; "Glorious, triumphant and complete victory ; The Texans leave for war ; A skirmish of horse artillery ; A prayer for our armies ; Winter in Virginia
- 1862: Naval victory in Hampton Roads ; The Texans invade New Mexico ; The drummer boy of Shiloh ; Stealing the telegraph ; A scout for Stuart ; Beauregard answers Butler ; Behind the lines in Carolina ; General Robert Edward Lee ; Morgan in Kentucky ; A hit at everybody ; Richmond views of the news ; The battle of frederickburg
- 1863: The Alabama versus the Hatteras ; The New Richmond Theatre ; Mosby makes a night raid ; A journey across Texas ; The South mourns Jackson ; Defeat at Vicksburg ; Mule meat at the Hotel de Vicksburg ; Gettysburg ; All-out war ; A prayer by General Lee ; In camp near Chickamauga ; General Joseph E. Johnston ; Dinner at the Oriental ; The close of '63
- 1864: President Davis' address to the soldiers ; Gaiety as usual in Mobile ; The consequence of desertion ; Theatricals in the Army ; The bishop-general, Leonidas Polk ; A plea for the reliable gentleman ; The Jews in Richmond ; Spending the seed corn ; Peace negotiations ; Victories in the Indian Territories ; Sherman in Atlanta ; In a Yankee prison ; To the friends of the Southern cause ; Discipline in Lee's army ; In Sherman's wake
- 1865: "Forbid it heaven!" ; "Humiliation spreads her ashes" ; "The glory of history is honour" ; "Great disasters have overtaken us" ; Secession runs its course.