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Harold A. Small

The Road to Richmond

The Civil War Letters of Major Abner R. Small of the 16th Maine Volunteers

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Abner Small wrote one of the most honest, poignant, and moving memoirs to come out of the Civil War. He served as a non-commissioned officer in the Third Maine Infantry during the summer of 1861, experiencing battle for the first time at First Bull Run. As a recruiting officer, he helped to raise the Sixteenth Maine Infantry and served as its adjutant. The Sixteenth Maine gained fame for its heroic delaying action on July 1 at Gettysburg, where it lost 180 of its 200 men. It went on to serve in Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia.Small was an articulate observer of all this. He wrote his memoirs with a keen sense of the irony of life during… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8232-2014-4
  • EAN: 9780823220144
  • Produktnummer: 1555135
  • Verlag: Fordham University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
  • Seitenangabe: 314 S.
  • Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.0 cm 445 g
  • Auflage: New ed
  • Abbildungen: Illustrations
  • Gewicht: 445

Über den Autor


Harold A. Small (Author) Harold Adams Small was the son of Major Abner R. Small and was Director of the University of California Press.Earl J. Hess (Introducer) Earl J. Hess holds the Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History at Lincoln Memorial University and is the author of nearly twenty books on the Civil War.

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