Letters & Battles of the North Carolina 58th Infantry Regiment, 1861-1865
Author | : Rex Redmon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Mitchell County (N.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781467551113 |
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Author | : Rex Redmon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Mitchell County (N.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781467551113 |
Author | : George Boardman Battle |
Publisher | : Scuppernog Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780970172655 |
This collection of letters written by two teenage Confederate soldiers during the Civil War gives a moving account of life on the front lines--the deprivations, the hardships, and the horror.
Author | : Zenas T. Haines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2017-09-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780649512454 |
Author | : Christopher M. Watford |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 635 |
Release | : 2018-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1476605637 |
"You will perceive by this I am at least in the Confederate service.... Since I have been here I have had a severe sickness but am glad to say at present I am well though I fear my sickness would have incapacitated me for active service.... In all probability our regiment will be stationed here permanently for the winter to guard the bridge across the Watauga River..."--Private John H. Phillips, Company E, 62nd Regiment NC Troops, Camp Carter, Tennessee, October 13, 1862 This work presents letters and diary entries (and a few other documents) that tell the Civil War experiences of soldiers and civilians from the mountain counties of North Carolina: Alleghany, Ashe, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, McDowell, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Surry, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey. The book is arranged chronologically, 1861 through 1865. Before each letter or diary entry, background information is provided about the writer.
Author | : Alexander McNeill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781611175363 |
More than two hundred eloquently written Civil War letters of love and life on the battlefield During the American Civil War, Alexander "Sandy" McNeill, a southern merchant, served in the Secession Guards, Company F, and Second South Carolina Regiment from April 17, 1861, to May 2, 1865. Within three weeks after the war began at Fort Sumter, McNeill wrote his first epistle to his long-time friend, Almirah Haseltine "Tinie" Simmons, in a campaign to win her heart and hand in marriage. The 29-year-old McNeill proclaimed in that letter, "I have always esteemed you as a friend and now I feel stealing over me a feeling which tells me that you are now held in higher estimation than that of a friend." Civil War historian and documentary editor Mac Wyckoff adds context to the correspondence, more than two hundred letters that encompass the entire duration of the war. With the exception of three breaks in communication, McNeill wrote to Tinie four to five times a week and persisted to the last week of April 1865, more than two weeks after General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. In general, letters written during the final six months of the war are hard to find as are many other primary source materials for the waning war. While this is among the largest and fullest Civil War collections, it is the literary quality of McNeill's letters and wide variety of topics reported that distinguish it from others. In frequent and lengthy missives, McNeill opened his heart and mind to Tinie, his fiancée and then wife. He fulsomely reported his experiences and thoughts on a soldier's life during this war, describing combat, camp life, the building of winter quarters, the marches, company election of officers, weather, food, and morale. McNeill chronicled his experiences at First Manassas (Bull Run), Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and other battles. A man of sophisticated opinions, McNeill voiced his personal views on political, religious and military events, and the names of fellow soldiers he liked and disliked--all illuminating his deep, dynamic character.
Author | : Laura P. Peace |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2018-09-30 |
Genre | : Granville County (N.C.) |
ISBN | : 9781720772910 |
The Post Office for the community of Tranquillity, North Carolina, was first opened in 1839. To learn the details of relatives, friends, the events of importance in the neighborhood, and to share their own day-to-day lives, the Peace brothers wrote home to Tranquillity between 1861 and 1865. These are the more than two hundred letters written during the Civil War. As you listen to their voices, images of family, of community, of personal interactions emerge and you become a visitor in their neighborhood, are drawn into their war, care for their family, and form an emotional connection with each of them. The letters provide a history of one devastated community and the men in the 23rd Regiment NC, beginning at Bull Run and ending at Appomattox.
Author | : George Washington Finley Harper |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2019-01-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781793180278 |
This is a first hand account by a member of Company H of the North Carolina 58th Infantry Regiment. The North Carolina 58th Infantry Regiment was organized in Mitchell County, North Carolina, in July, 1862. Its twelve companies were recruited in the counties of Mitchell, Yancey, Watauga, Caldwell, McDowell, and Ashe. In September it moved to Cumberland Gap and spent the winter of 1862-1863 at Big Creek Gap, near Jacksboro, Tennessee. The 58th participated in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Atlanta, guarded prisoners at Columbia, Tennessee, during Hood's operations, then moved to South Carolina and skirmished along the Edisto River. Later it returned to North Carolina and saw action at Bentonville . It lost 46 killed and 114 wounded at Chickamauga, totalled 327 men and 186 arms in December, 1863, and took about 300 effectives to Bentonville. The unit was included in the surrender on April 26, 1865.The narrative primarily focuses on the events from the battle of Chickamauga to the end of the war. Harper describes the events at Bentonville: "The 58th, in this, its last battle, numbered about 300 effectives. The Brigade (Palmer's) was selected as the directing column for the Army of Tennessee in the assault on the enemy's line. The charge was made with great spirit and dash, and the enemy entrenched and with a high fence built in their front, gave way before inflicting great loss on their assailants. In the pursuit which followed, two pieces of artillery, limbering with all haste to the rear, were captured and driven back into our lines with their teams complete. In running down and taking the guns some of the artillerymen were shot while on the chests, and the old pine field was strewn with blankets, provisions and plunder of all sorts thrown away by the flying foe." We have added biographical sketches of the officers with photos and an index to the soldiers of the regiment. Also included is an extensive bibliography of resources for researching this regiment.