A Rebel's Recollections - Hardcover

Eggleston, George C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1169921426 ISBN 13: 9781169921429

Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2011

Synopsis

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About this title

From the Back Cover

Originally published in 1875, George Cary Eggleston's memoir, which proved immensely popular among readers throughout the country, is a nostalgic, often amusing collection of essays based on the author's Civil War experiences. Eggleston describes life in Virginia before the war, offers glowing assessments of the men who filled the Rebel ranks and the women who stood behind them, satirizes the Confederacy's finances and its army's red tape, and recollects the war's end. He also provides compelling portraits of his heroes, lavishing praise on Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and especially Jeb Stuart. By 1905, A Rebel's Recollections had run through four editions, suggesting how well it reflected the mood of the nation, which by then wanted to forget angry sectionalism and glorify the soldiers of both sides in an idealized view of the war. In this latest edition, Gaines M. Foster provides a new introduction, deftly placing Eggleston's memoir in the context of recent historiography.

About the Author

Gaines M. Foster is T. Harry Williams Professor and chair of the history department at Louisiana State University and the author of Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1169921426
• ISBN 13: 9781169921429
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192