My Recollections of the War, a Virginia Sergeant's Memories; Confederate Civil War Battle Story (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"My Recollections of the War" by Sgt. Fountain Shakelford of the 36th VA INF REGT., Mountain Riflemen, is a kind of "Cold Mountain" book for the Confederate soldier, in that it is an intimate, authentic diary of day-to-day life of a soldier with the insights and emotions that come from war. He begins his journey full of hope, born in the state of Virginia, which will become the state of West Virginia, and fights his first battle on his home ground, Carnifex Ferry, VA [WV], which is a stunning win for his Confederate Gen. Floyd. His journey spans from Tennessee to Washinton City [D. C.], and is fraught with danger and violence, marching, fighting, and hardship, and a severe wound to his face. In between is courtship and a "wee bit of mountain dew" and camp shenanigans. Towards the end of the war he visits in his father in the mountains of Nicholas county, only to leave on the run through the woods after dark. And, in the end, he talks about the confusion on the day of Lee's surrender, and the "bloodshed and carnage the like, which had never been witnessed on this continent." 22 chapters