As If It Were Glory
Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments
In this powerful and moving memoir, Robert Beecham tells of his Civil War experiences, both as an enlisted man in the fabled Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac and as an officer commanding a newly raised African-American unit. Written in 1902, Beecham recounts his war experiences with a keen eye toward the daily life of the soldier, the suffering and brutality of war, and the remarkable acts of valor, by soldiers both black and white, that punctuated the grind of long campaigns. As If It Were Glory is an unforgettable account of the Civil War, unclouded by sentimentality and insistent that the nation remain true to the cause for which it…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-945612-55-1
- EAN: 9780945612551
- Produktnummer: 1841560
- Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.9 cm 568 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
- Gewicht: 568
Über den Autor
Michael E. Stevens is state historic preservation officer at the Wisconsin Historical Society. He has written and edited several books on common men and women during war including: Letters From the Front, 1898-1945, Women Remember the War, 1941-1945, Remembering the Holocaust, and Voices from Vietnam.
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