A citizen soldier's Civil War: the letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-307) and index |
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adam_text | A CITIZEN-SOLDIER S CIVIL WAR / VORIS, ALVIN C. : C2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
INTRODUCTION I CANNOT BEAR TO THINK OF A DISMEMBERED COUNTRY 3
1 SOLDERING IS ROMANTIC INDEED
ILLUSION AND THE FIRST BATTLE OF KERNSTOWN 19
2 THE 67TH J{AS NOT BEEN STATIONARY
THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN 43
3 TERRIBLE REALITIES OF A PROTRACTED AND SAVAGE WAR
THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN 67
4 NEVER CEASING SCRAMBLEFOR THIS BAUBLE 9LORY
THE CHARLESTON SIEGE AND FORT WAGNER 95
5 OLD PROMPTLY J{AS RETURNED
CHARLESTON UNCONQUERED 133
6 DAYS OF INTENSE ANXIETY AND PERIL
THE ARMY OF THE JAMES 156
7 CONSTANTLY UNDER TIRE
THE BERMUDA HUNDRED FRONT 173
8 A DESOLATED COUNTRY CURSED BY SLAVERY AND SLAVERY S WAR
STALEMATE AND MONOTONY AT BERMUDA HUNDRED 195
9 I WOULD NFOT FEEL IT ANY DEGRADATION TO COMMAND COLORED TROOPS
TRENCH WARFARE, DEEP BOTTOM, AND DARBYTOWN ROAD 211
10 EACH DAY BRINGS THE WAR SO MUCH NEAR A CLOSE
THE APPOMATTOX CAMPAIGN 241
11 A BLACK WOMAN 3JAD RIGHTS
RECONSTRUCTION IN VIRGINIA 256.
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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Citizen-Soldier s
CimíWar
THE LETTERS OF
BREVET MAJOR GENERAL
ALVIN C.
VORIS
•
When citizen-soldier
Alvin
Сое
Voris
wrote his first letter to his beloved
wife,
Lydia,
in
1861,
he embarked on a
correspondence that would span the
duration of the Civil War. A former
Ohio legislator.
Voris
filled his letters
with keen insights into the daily life of
soldiers, army politics, and such issues
as the morality of combat and the evils
of slavery. Often heartwrenching and
invariably gripping, the
428
letters
collected in this volume form an unbro¬
ken and unique Civil War chronicle.
Voris s personal merit and political
influence earned him the rank of
brevet major general of volunteers.
Known among his men as Old
Promptly, he strongly emphasized the
soldierly precepts of order and duty on
the battlefield. As leader of the 67th
Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment,
Voris
fought in the First Battle of
Kernstown, Stonewall Jackson s only
defeat. Though wounded in the attack
on Fort Wagner during the siege of
Charleston, he served in northern
Virginia until General Lee s surrender
at Appomattox Courthouse.
Some of Voris s most impassioned
letten
depict his firsthand observations
of slavery s effects on the nation as he
condemned the cruelty of slaveowners
and agonized over the predicament of
his fellow man. At one point,
Voris
led
an African American brigade consisting
of nearly
3,000
soldiers, and soon after
their first combat he wrote
Lydia
to
praise the men s valor and fighting
spirit. Discharged from military com¬
mand in
1865,
he remained an active,
dedicated supporter of equal rights for
African Americans.
A firm advocate of women s rights,
Voris
placed implicit trust in Lydia s
ability to manage their home in his
absence. He sent her his earnings and
rarely dictated their use.
Voris
frequently
praised Lydia s skills as a mother and,
regarding her as fully his intellectual
equal, shared with her his deepest
concerns as a military commander.
Edited and annotated by Jerome
Mushkat, this exceptionally complete
collection of letters reveals not only
the daily life of a Civil War soldier but
also the ideals and aspirations of a man
of conscience whom duty called to the
battlefield.
Jerome Mushkat is author of several
books on American political history,
including Martin Van
Buren:
Law,
Politics, and the Shaping of Republican
Ideology. He is Professor Emeritus of
History at the University of Akron.
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