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Title: Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade by John S. Jackman, William C. Davis ISBN: 1-57003-164-9 Publisher: University of South Carolina Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book for anyone intersted in the Western Theater
Comment: The Orphan Brigade was one of the hardest fighting units in the Army of Tennessee. Jackman writes a very good history from his own expierences, first as a regular soldier then as an clerk for Co. B, 9th Kentucky. He takes us from the first camps of the Orphans through the war, to where he was injured at near where General Polk was killed at Pine Mountain and his hospital visits. While there are thing added either in his transfer of the diary to a new book in 1865 or after the war, William C. Davis helps make clear things that might have been changed. Davis also points out names where Jackman uses initals. Overall, it is worth the price, especially for a Civil War Reenactor like me.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent account of life in the 'Orphan Brigade'
Comment: In February of 1862, 4,000 men left Kentucky as part of the First Kentucky Brigade and marched south. Three years later, 600 returned, among them John S. Jackman. In between, the five regiments saw most of the Civil War in the west -- Shiloh, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, Chickamauga, the Atlanta campaign -- even ending their days as a unit in Washington, Georgia, just as President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet pass through in their attempt to escape Union troops.
Jackman saw it all, and as renowned and prolific Civil War author and editor William Davis points out, his account is the longest and most unvarnished of the diaries that have come out of the war about the "Orphan Brigade." "Diary of a Confederate Soldier" is one of the better memoirs to come out of the war, literate, readable, humorous (especially the great snowball battle in March of 1864), and educating.
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Title: Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade: The Journal of a Confederate Soldier by Johnny Green, Kent Masterson Brown, A. D. Kirwan ISBN: 081312221X Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home by William C. Davis ISBN: 0807110779 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: March, 1983 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Battle at Bull Run: A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War by Williwm C. Davis, William C. Davis ISBN: 0807108677 Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Pub. Date: May, 1981 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title:Gods and Generals ASIN: B00009OOFA Publisher: Warner Home Video Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.97 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.99 |
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