ebooks Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards; Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment; Army of Northern Virginia by G. Ward Hubbs in History

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. great civli war bookBy joe dobrodeygood insight to life in a rebel regiment; soldier. diaries are awesome ; because everyone saw and experienced something different on the same battlefield.0 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great Book Easy Read Hated for it to end.By George T. ErdelLoved this book found some mention of my Grand Uncle William Tinker in the book. An easy and educational read that made me feel as though I had been on the campaigns with them.7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating and UniqueBy JimThe editor did a fantastic job of combining these diaries into a chronologically coherent narrative. Additionally he was very wise to preserve the non-standard spellings and minimize annotations. By doing this he preserved the spontaneous quality of the writing.The writing skills of these diarists is quite surprising. Time and again the reader will come across details and vignettes that are astonishing. In one instance the writer (a private) takes a late night stroll and in the moonlight passes another lone stroller...Robert E. Lee. In another instance a young doctor; fighting as a private; describes his heroic attempts to save his best friend from a protracted illness only to have him die in his arms. It may well be the most poignant thing I have ever read. Other descriptions will create images that will long remain with the reader. From now on when I hear bacon frying I will think of flying miniballs!This book is unlike anything I have ever read concerning the War Between the States. I highly recommend it.