Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

by John O. Casler

Overview

Published in 1906, this is the recollections of John Casler while in the service of the Confederacy and being a member of the Stonewall Brigade during the Civil War.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788822890146
Publisher:	Arcadia Press
Publication date:	01/16/2017
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	548,581
File size:	406 KB

About the Author

Robert K. Krick was for thirty years the chief historian at Virginia's Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain and The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy.

Editorial Reviews

Released in 1893 and revised and expanded in 1906, Casler's firsthand account of his time in the Confederate Army is as much about looting and lining his pockets as about combat. His honesty as to the moral ambiguity of stealing from the dead as well as the confusion at the front lines and the cruelty he suffered as an eventual prisoner makes this valuable. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

As illustrating the daily life of a soldier in the ranks, it is one of the very best publications I have read. I found it a vivid reminder of the days gone by.”

E. M. Schutte

I can vouch for the similarity and lifelike experiences–not exaggerated, but plain facts jotted down at the time and from careful thought.”

J. M. McSherry

"It was difficult for a soldier to figure out why a gold watch or money in the pocket of a dead soldier, who had been trying to kill him all day, did not belong to the man who found it as much as it did to anyone else."

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