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

All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes Paperback - 1992

by Rhodes (Ed), Robert Hunt

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Anyone who heard these diaries of a common Union soldier excerpted on the PBS-TV documentary The Civil War will recognize Elisha Hunt Rhodes' accounts of campaigns from Bull Run to Appomattox, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. "This remarkable diary chronicles the career of one of the Civil War's most remarkable soldiers".--James M. McPherson. 70 photos.

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New York: Vintage Civil War Library. New. 1992. Paperback. 248 pages. 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. Excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War, his accounts of those campaigns remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Rhodes's word 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. " .
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  • Title All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
  • Author Rhodes (Ed), Robert Hunt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Condition New
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Civil War Library, New York
  • Date 1992
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # LDJ003
  • ISBN 9780679738282 / 0679738282
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Biography, United States - History - Civil War,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91050734
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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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."

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"One of the best firsthand accounts I have read of campaigning and combat in the Civil War." -- James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom

"One of the most remarkable diaries I have ever read. Elisha Hunt Rhodes saw action from Bull Run to Appomattox and somehow survived, and his diary came to represent, better than any other I found, the spirit of the Union soldier." -- Ken Burns, director and writer of The Civil War

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 05/25/1992, Page 0

About the author

Elisha Hunt Rhodes was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, in 1842. He enlisted as a private in the Union Army in 1861. Four years later, he left the army as a twenty-three-year-old colonel, having fought in every campaign of the Army of the Potomac from Bull Run to Appomattox. After the war, he returned to his home state of Rhode Island and became a successful businessman. He remained active in military and veteran affairs, serving as the Brigadier General of the Brigade of Rhode Island Militia from 1879 to 1893 and acting as president of the Second Rhode Island Volunteers and Battery A Veterans Association. Rhodes died at the age of seventy-five on January 14, 1917.

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