Gilbert Moxley Sorrel 
Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer [EPUB ebook] 

Sorrel’s memoir, ‘Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer’, was published posthumously, in 1905. Historian Douglas Southall Freeman deemed Sorrel’s book one of the best accounts of the personalities of the major players in the Confederacy, characterized by ‘a hundred touches of humor and revealing strokes of swift characterization.’