A Hard Trip: A History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry, CSAMercer University Press, 2003 - 194 páginas Not strictly a military history, Ben Wynne examines in this book the social components of Confederate service in the context of the experiences of a single regiment. Wynne begins with a general overview of the political climate of the 1850s, localized to the region that produced the 15th Mississippi, then covers the regiment's movements through the western theater, and ends with a localized treatment of the post-war social climate and the rise of Lost Cause mythology. The emphasis in this insightful and new approach to the Civil War focuses on the experiences of the men who served in the regiment, including their intrinsic connection to their communities, reasons that they enlisted, reactions to their first combat, views on conscription, accounts of major battles in the western theater, the ebb and flow of morale, desertion, and the post-war status of the men as heroes in a culture struggling to rationalize defeat. Using first person accounts from letters, diaries, memoirs, and other primary materials, the book sets the 15th Mississippi in a personal context. The narrative is chronologically arranged by the events of the western theater of the Civil War. Emphasizing the real war and not a romanticized version, the story of this unique regiment follows a group of men who entered the war with visions of glory and honor but within one year came to recognize the true nature of the conflict. |
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Organization 1861 | 32 |
Tennessee And Kentucky 18611862 | 51 |
Shiloh 1862 | 67 |
Mississippi And Louisiana 1862 | 79 |
Winter Quarters Port Hudson And The Vicksburg Campaign 1863 | 97 |
Retreat From Mississippi And The Atlanta Campaign 1864 | 115 |
PostAtlanta Movements And The Atlanta Campaign 1864 | 129 |
Nashville North Carolina And The Wars Conclusion 18641865 | 143 |
After The War | 157 |
Appendix | 175 |
Bibliography | 179 |
Index | 187 |
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15th Mississippi counties 15th Mississippi Infantry 15th Mississippi's Company Alabama Aldridge April Archives and History Army of Tennessee Atlanta Campaign Attala County Augustus Hervey Mecklin Battle of Franklin Battles and Leaders Bearss Brantley brigade camp Carroll County casualties Choctaw County command Company F Compiled Service Records Confederacy Confederate army Confederate Veteran Corinth Cry of Freedom defeat Department of Archives elected Federal Fifteenth Mississippi Infantry fight flag force Hervey Mecklin Papers History Library History of Mississippi Holmes County Hood's Jackson James Binford January John Bell Hood Johnston Lieutenant Long Creek Rifles Loring's division Lost Cause March Michael Farrell Mill Springs Mississippi Department moved Nashville North Carolina officers photo courtesy Port Hudson Press of Mississippi railroad Recollections regiment retreat River Sherman Shiloh slavery slaves South Southern Independence Statham Thomas took troops University Press VICKSBURG CAMPAIGN volunteers Walthall Water Valley Rifles William wounded wrote Yalobusha County Yankees Zollicoffer Zollicoffer's
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Página 155 - The officers to give their individual paroles not to take up arms against the government of the United States until properly exchanged ; and each company or regimental commander sign a like parole for the men of their commands.
Página 155 - States, until properly released from this obligation. "4. The side-arms of officers, and their private horses, and baggage to be retained by them. "5. This being done, all the officers and men will be permitted to return to their homes, not to be disturbed by the United States authorities, so long as they observe their obligation and the laws in force where they may reside.
Página 73 - Up to the battle of Shiloh I, as well as thousands of other citizens, believed that the rebellion against the Government would collapse suddenly and soon, if a decisive victory could be gained over any of its armies.
Página 21 - With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black; and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals...
Página 71 - If this cannot be done, our only hope is that the people of the Southwest will rally en masse with their private arms, and thus enable you to oppose the vast army which will threaten the destruction of our country.
Página 56 - Fort Henry, on the Tennessee River, and Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland River.
Página 30 - These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
Página 121 - Polk fell to-day at the outpost of this army, the army he raised and commanded, in all of whose trials he shared, to all of whose victories he contributed. In this distinguished leader we have lost the most courteous of gentlemen, the most gallant of soldiers. The Christian patriot soldier has neither lived nor died in vain. His example is before you ; his mantle rests with you.
Página 64 - Regiment, was absent at the time of the battle on furlough. His regiment was most gallantly led by Lieutenant-Colonel Walthall. The reputation of the Mississippians for heroism was fully sustained by this regiment. Its loss in killed and wounded, which was far greater than that of any other regiment, tells sufficiently the story of discipline and courage. The already extended limits of this report will not permit me, even if I had them at hand, to enumerate the individual acts of courage with which...
Página 4 - Marvellous accounts had gone forth of the fertility of its virgin lands; and the productions of the soil were commanding a price remunerating to slave labor as it had never been remunerated before. Emigrants came flocking in from all quarters of the Union, especially from the slaveholding States. The new country seemed to be a reservoir, and every road leading to it a vagrant stream of enterprise and adventure.