Winner of the Bruce Fraser Award (2016)Voices of Civil War soldiers rise from the pages of Heroes for All Time. This book presents the war straight from the minds and pens of its participants; rich passages from soldiers’ letters and diaries complement hundreds of outstanding period photographs; most previously unpublished. The soldiers’ moving experiences; thoughts; and images animate each chapter. Written accounts by nurses and doctors; soldiers’ families; and volunteers on the home front add intriguing details to our picture of the struggle; which claimed roughly 6;000 Connecticut lives. Rare war artifacts—a bone ring carved on the battlefield or a wad of tobacco acquired from a rebel picket—connect the reader to the men and boys who once owned them. From camp life to battle; from Virginia to Louisiana; from the opening shot at Bull Run to the cheering at Appomattox; Heroes for All Time tells the story of the war through vivid; personal portrayals.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very thorough account of those Spaniards who came after De SotoBy Steven R. UrquhartVery enjoyable account of the last Spanish expeditions into the Catawba uplands connecting the fuller writings of De Soto's chroniclers with the most up-to-date research as to who was visited and at what locations at that time.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Loved this! A treasure for reference materialBy JS MooreLoved this! A treasure for reference material...11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. Spanish and Indians in the CarolinasBy SmallchiefCharles Hudson is perhaps the best scholar to read about the interaction of Indians and Spanish in the American Southeast during the 16th century. His book about De Soto's route is definitive. This book concerns the nearly-forgotten expeditions of Juan Pardo through the Carolinas and across the Appalachians to Tennessee in 1566;67;and 68. Included in the book are the official accounts in Spanish of Pardo's expeditions plus English translations.Pardo visited several of the same Indian cities as De Soto had thirty years earlier and thus we have two sources regarding such places as Cofitachequi; Joara; and Coosa. When De Soto reached Cofitachequi -- few miles east of present-day Columbia; SC; it was aleady in decline; having suffered from a plague -- almost certainly of European origin. By Pardo's time; the powerful Chiefdom was on its last legs. Within a few years; the complex societies seen by the early Spanish would cease to exist to be replaced by the much depopulated and simpler societies of the historic Creek; Cherokee; Catawba and other Indian tribes.Hudson pieces together linguistic and archaeological data as well as nuggets from the tiresome accounts of the expedition by Pardo's legalistic notary to portray the Indians Pardo met. One interesting feature of Pardo's expeditions compared with De Soto's is that Pardo had few battles or adventures; got along well with most of the Indians he met; and none of his men were killed or died.There is little information about the Indians of the Southeast at the time of first contacts with the invading Europeans. Pardo's is one of the most useful and least fanciful accounts that we have and Hudson's interpretation of it is almost surely the best that can be found.Smallchief
