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A Rebel's Recollections
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A Rebel's Recollections Paperback - 1996

by Eggleston, George Cary

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Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1996. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 187 pages. 8.25x5.75x0.50 inches.
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Details

  • Title A Rebel's Recollections
  • Author Eggleston, George Cary
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Louisiana State Univ Pr, Baton Rouge, LA
  • Date 1996
  • Bookseller's Inventory # x-0807121258
  • ISBN 9780807121252 / 0807121258
  • Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects Confederate States of America - History, United States - History - Civil War,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96027324
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

From the rear cover

Originally published in 1875, George Cary Eggleston's memoir, which proved immensely popular among readers throughout the country, is a nostalgic, often amusing collection of essays based on the author's Civil War experiences. Eggleston describes life in Virginia before the war, offers glowing assessments of the men who filled the Rebel ranks and the women who stood behind them, satirizes the Confederacy's finances and its army's red tape, and recollects the war's end. He also provides compelling portraits of his heroes, lavishing praise on Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and especially Jeb Stuart. By 1905, A Rebel's Recollections had run through four editions, suggesting how well it reflected the mood of the nation, which by then wanted to forget angry sectionalism and glorify the soldiers of both sides in an idealized view of the war. In this latest edition, Gaines M. Foster provides a new introduction, deftly placing Eggleston's memoir in the context of recent historiography.

About the author

Gaines M. Foster is T. Harry Williams Professor and chair of the history department at Louisiana State University and the author of Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South.