Winner of the Bruce Fraser Award (2016)
Voices of Civil War soldiers rise from the pages of Heroes for All Time. This book presents the war straight from the minds and pens of its participants; rich passages from soldiers’ letters and diaries complement hundreds of outstanding period photographs, most previously unpublished. The soldiers’ moving experiences, thoughts, and images animate each chapter. Written accounts by nurses and doctors, soldiers’ families, and volunteers on the home front add intriguing details to our picture of the struggle, which claimed roughly 6, 000 Connecticut lives. Rare war artifacts—a bone ring carved on the battlefield or a wad of tobacco acquired from a rebel picket—connect the reader to the men and boys who once owned them. From camp life to battle, from Virginia to Louisiana, from the opening shot at Bull Run to the cheering at Appomattox, Heroes for All Time tells the story of the war through vivid, personal portrayals.
A Driftless Connecticut Series Book, funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Tabella dei contenuti
Chapter One: Men of Connecticut!’ War Begins, Spring, 1861
Chapter Two: No One Dreamed of Anything but Victory Bull Run, Summer, 1861
Chapter Three: The Voice of Duty A Long War Ahead, Autumn, 1861 to Summer, 1862
Chapter Four: War by Citizen Soldiers The Makings of an Army
Chapter Five: I Never Knew What War Meant till Today Antietam September, 1862
Chapter Six: Emancipation is a Mighty Word Freedom Arrives
Chapter Seven: No Men on Earth Can Be Braver Fredericksburg, December, 1862
Chapter Eight: Who wouldn’t be a soldier? Life in Camp
Chapter Nine: All This Heroism, and All This Appalling Carnage Fighting in Virginia and Louisiana, Spring and Summer, 1863
Chapter Ten: That Place Long to Be Remembered Gettysburg, Summer 1863
Chapter Eleven: There Will Be No Turning Back Stubborn Fighting, July 1863 to June 1864
Chapter Twelve: Hope Never Dying From the Siege of Petersburg to the Sea, June to December 1864
Chapter Thirteen: Our Army Perfectly Crazy On to Appomattox, 1865
Chapter Fourteen: Soldiers of the Union Mustered Out The Aftermath
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
Circa l’autore
Buck Zaidel, a dentist and longtime Civil War enthusiast, collects objects and images related to Union soldiers’ daily lives. He has exhibited at Civil War and antique arms shows across the country, and contributed items to museum exhibitions, including Photography and the American Civil War at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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