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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Weaver, James Riley, 1839-1920 (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: Klingensmith, Harold A. (Tony) (Éditeur intellectuel), Kawaue, Midori (Éditeur intellectuel), Wilson, Wesley (Wesley W.) (Éditeur intellectuel), Schlotterbeck, John T. (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Collection:Civil War soldiers and strategies.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Weaver, James Riley, > 1839-1920 > Diaries.
United States. > Army. > Cavalry > Officers > Diaries.
United States. > Army. > Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 18th (1862-1865)
Prisoners of war > United States > Diaries.
Soldiers > Pennsylvania > Diaries.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
Pennsylvania > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
Pennsylvania > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Prologue: Instilling the "ideal of Christian manhood," 1839 to 1863
  • "The arts and scenes of active warfare": the making of a cavalry officer, June 1 to July 17, 1863
  • "Slept to dream of war but woke to find all quiet": campaigning in Northern Virginia, July 18 to October 11, 1863
  • "What a little world in itself have we in Libby": Libby Prison, Richmond, October 12, 1863, to January 16, 1864
  • "Our happiness is alloyed by the fear of being disappointed": Libby Prison, Richmond, January 17 to May 6, 1864
  • "Think of home and wonder when the space that now separates us will be traversed": Macon, Georgia, May 7 to July 27, 1864
  • "They go high like a shooting meteor and fall abruptly as stars": Charleston, South Carolina, July 28 to October 5, 1864
  • "Escape is the order of the day": Camp Sorghum, Columbia, South Carolina, October 6 to December 11, 1864
  • "Sitting outside my tent penning these lines": Camp Asylum, Columbia, South Carolina, December 12, 1864, to February 13, 1865
  • "Altho' these things seemed as of former days, yet I could not realize that I was free": homeward bound, February 14 to April 1, 1865
  • Epilogue: "Students are co-laborers with the instructor in the investigation of specific subjects," Weaver's post-war career, 1865 to 1920.

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