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As If It Were Glory

Robert Beecham's Civil War from the Iron Brigade to the Black Regiments

Szerző: R. K. Beecham

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Rowman & Littlefield

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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In this powerful and moving memoir, Robert Beecham tells of his Civil War experiences, both as an en...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

R. K. Beecham

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

1998

oldal

264

EAN

9780945612551

ISBN

0945612559

Enbook ID

04948845

Kiadó

Rowman & Littlefield

Súly

608

Méretek

160 x 234 x 23

Teljes leírás

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 fought. Beecham's war was a long one-he served from May 1861 through the completion of the war in the spring of 1865. With the Iron Brigade he saw action at such momentous battles as Chancellorsville and then at Gettysburg, where he was taken prisoner. Returned to service in a prison exchange, Beecham was promoted to first lieutenant of the 23rd United States Colored Troops whom he lead in fierce fighting at the Battle of the Crater. At the Crater, Beecham was wounded, again captured, and, after eight months in a Confederate prison, escaped to find his way to Annapolis just before the conclusion of the war. In his narrative, Beecham celebrates the ingenuity of the enlisted man at the expense of officers who are often arrogant or incompetent. He also chides the altered recollections of fellow veterans who remember only triumphs and forgot defeats. In one of the most powerful parts of his memoir, Beecham pays tribute to the valor of the African Americans who fought under his command and insists that they were "the bravest and best soldiers that ever lived."