Down in Dixie: Life in a Cavalry Regiment (Expanded, Annotated)

Stanton Perry Allen

ISBN 10: 151905422X / ISBN 13: 9781519054227

Published by Independently published, 2016

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315 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.79 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # zk151905422X

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Down in Dixie: Life in a Cavalry Regiment (Expanded, Annotated)
• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 151905422X
• ISBN 13: 9781519054227
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.55 kilograms

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Synopsis

Only fourteen years old when he first tried enlisting in the Union army, he was not quite seventeen when he mustered out at the end of the war. Along the way, Stanton Perry Allen saw plenty of fighting and dying, and served on the staff of General George Gordon Meade, the hero of Gettysburg.In this hilarious, at times irreverent, but also sorrowful and respectful memoir, Allen brought his skill as a professional writer and observer to the creation of one of the most pleasurable Civil War memoirs you'll ever read. After the war he was a journalist, editor, lieutenant in the New York National Guard, and a clergyman.His proximity to great events and people, and his ability to bring those years to life makes this a cherished personal account of the American Civil War.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.