Reminiscences: Or Four Years in the Confederate Army; A History of the Experiences of the Private Soldier in Camp, Hospital, Prison, on the March, and ... Battlefield; 1861 to 1865 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Jno; Will Dyer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0260709352 ISBN 13: 9780260709356

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Reminiscences: Or Four Years in the Confederate Army; A History of the Experiences of the Private Soldier in Camp, Hospital, Prison, on the March, and on the Battlefield; 1861 to 1865

In this narrative, In speaking of the private soldier. I include all from the Colonel down; the men who endured the hardships and bore the brunt of the conflict. I use the first person singular in many instances, not to call at tention to myself, but because my personal observations were easier to remember and only record similar deeds performed by hundreds of thousands of other men North and South whose experience was like mine.

Of course, we of the South had more of this kind of experience than those of the North, but I am sure that my brother who wore the blue will not now begrudge us the credit to which we feel entitled.

I write this from a Southern standpoint, but I can assure my brother who wore the blue that he will find nothing in theso pages derogatory to the reputation of a brave and true soldier. By meeting with you on the field I learned that you could shoot as hard and stay as long as the best of them, and in your prison you did me many acts of kindness. Of course you had some among vou who disregarded the amenities of humanity; so did we, and we know them, but between the true men of the armies the best of feeling prevailed, and when peace was declared we quit fighting, and now thirty-three years afterward. We get together and an outsider can't tell which side we were on, and we wonder ourselves why we could not settle our differences without a fight.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0260709352
• ISBN 13: 9780260709356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 386