James Riley Weaver's Civil War : the diary of a Union cavalry officer and prisoner of war, 1863-1865 /

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666 days of diary entries documenting the life of a Union officer held in Confederate prisons. Captured on October 11, 1863, James Riley Weaver, a Union cavalry officer, spent nearly seventeen months in Confederate prisons. Remarkably, Weaver kept a diary that documents 666 consecutive days of his e...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Weaver, James Riley, 1839-1920 (Author)
Other Authors: Schlotterbeck, John T. (Editor), Wilson, Wesley (Wesley W.) (Editor), Kawaue, Midori (Editor), Klingensmith, Harold A. (Tony) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2019]
Series:Civil War soldiers and strategies.
Subjects:
Weaver, James Riley, > 1839-1920 > Diaries.
United States. > Army. > Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 18th (1862-1865)
United States. > Army. > Cavalry > Officers > Diaries.
United States. > Army. > Cavalry
1861-1865
Soldiers > Pennsylvania > Diaries.
Prisoners of war > United States > Diaries.
Armed Forces > Officers
Prisoners of war
Regimental histories
Soldiers
Pennsylvania > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
Pennsylvania > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons.
Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Récits personnels.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Récits personnels.
Pennsylvanie > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Histoire des unités.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Histoire des unités.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession) > Prisonniers et prisons.
Pennsylvania
United States
Personal Narrative
Diaries
History
Personal narratives
Personal narratives.
Récits personnels.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations; Editorial Method; Prologue: Instilling the "Ideal of Christian Manhood," 1839-1863; One: "The Arts and Scenes of Active Warfare": The Making of a Cavalry Officer, June 1-July 17, 1863; Two: "Slept to Dream of War but Woke to Find All Quiet": Campaigning in Northern Virginia, July 18-October 11, 1863; Three: "What a Little World in Itself Have We in Libby": Libby Prison, Richmond, October 12, 1863-January 16, 1864
  • Four: "Our Happiness Is Alloyed by the Fear of Being Disappointed": Libby Prison, Richmond, January 17-May 6, 1864Five: "Think of Home and Wonder When the Space That Now Separates Us Will Be Traversed": Macon, Georgia, May 7-July 27, 1864; Six: "They Go High Like a Shooting Meteor and Fall Abruptly as a Star": Charleston, South Carolina, July 28-October 5, 1864; Seven: "Escape Has Been the Order of the Day": Camp Sorghum, Columbia, South Carolina, October 6-December 11, 1864
  • Eight: "Sitting Outside My Tent Penning These Lines": Camp Asylum, Columbia, South Carolina, December 12, 1864-February 13, 1865Nine: "Altho All These Things Seemed as of Former Days, Yet I Could Not Realize That I Was Free": Homeward Bound, February 14-April 1, 1865; Epilogue: Students Are "Co-Laborers with the Instructor in the Investigation of Specific Subjects": Weaver's Postwar Career, 1865-1920; Appendix: James Riley Weaver, "A Phi Psi's Christmas in Libby," The Shield of Phi Kappa Psi (1899); Chronology; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

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