All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes - Couverture souple

Rhodes, Elisha Hunt

 
9780679738282: All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0679738282 ISBN 13 : 9780679738282
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

Synopsis

All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in 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 satisfaction of giving "all for the union."

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À propos de l'auteur

Elisha Hunt Rhodes was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, in 1842. He enlisted as a private in the Union Army in 1861. Four years later, he left the army as a twenty-three-year-old colonel, having fought in every campaign of the Army of the Potomac from Bull Run to Appomattox. After the war, he returned to his home state of Rhode Island and became a successful businessman. He remained active in military and veteran affairs, serving as the Brigadier General of the Brigade of Rhode Island Militia from 1879 to 1893 and acting as president of the Second Rhode Island Volunteers and Battery A Veterans Association. Rhodes died at the age of seventy-five on January 14, 1917.

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Éditeur
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0679738282
ISBN 13 
9780679738282
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
270
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9780517584279: All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0517584271 ISBN 13 :  9780517584279
Editeur : Orion Books, 1991
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