All For the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Rhodes, Elisha Hunt. Rhodes, Robert Hunt (ed.)

ISBN 10: 0517584271 / ISBN 13: 9780517584279

Published by Orion Books, New York, 1991

About this Item

255 pps. Silver titles: sp. Frontis. Illust. w/ b/w portraits, photos & facsimile docs. Black bds. w/ blue cloth sp. Decorative map endpapers. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Union soldier's war diary. Elisha Hunt served in the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry Regiment though out the war. He served as an enlisted man and rose to colonel of the regiment at age twenty-two. A clean unmarked copy.

Seller Inventory # 005096

Bibliographic Details

• Title: All For the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
• Publisher: Orion Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517584271
• ISBN 13: 9780517584279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Reprint Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Dimensions: Octavo ~23 cm / 9" tall Octavo, Approximately 23 centimetres, or 9 inches tall

About this title

Synopsis

The personal journal of a young Union soldier provides an insightful, eyewitness account of the battles and events

From the Inside Flap

All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."