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TO RESCUE MY NATIVE LAND THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF WILLIAM T. SHEPHERD
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781572334427
- Book Title
- To Rescue My Native Land : The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Tennessee Press
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Military / United States, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, IL, in, Ks, MI, MN, MO, Nd, Ne, OH, Sd, Wi), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Historical, Military
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 24.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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The salary of a private in the army is $12, monthly and fed & uniformed. I know it is a hard life, but anything for my Native Land, wrote William T. Shepherd, a Wisconsin native enlisted in Battery B of the First Illinois Light Artillery. During his three years in the Western theater, Shepherd served as both an artilleryman and a clerk in several ordnance offices, all the while carefully recording his experiences and observations in letters to his family.A keen chronicler of camp life and the vicissitudes of soldiering, Shepherd wrote extremely detailed and enlightening battle accounts. He saw significant action at Fredericktown, Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson, and Shiloh, with his battery playing a critical role in several of these engagements. In the fall of 1862, he became an ordnance clerk. From a unique vantage point rarely known by historians, he described the logistical apparatus supporting the Union advance against Vicksburg and later across Tennessee.In his new capacity as a rear-area soldier, Shepherd had the opportunity to interact with local civilians. He regularly attended civilian churches, had black servants and housekeepers and witnessed colored balls, met Southerners on the street on a daily basis, and boarded in a Southern home. Because of these experiences, Shepherd came to view the South s citizens as more than battlefield abstractions, and his understanding of the occupied South grew increasingly nuanced.Highly educated compared with many other soldiers of his rank, Shepherd expresses the life of the common combatant in an unusually articulate way. To Rescue My Native Land traces the evolution of a young recruit to veteran artilleryman and administrative operative and provides a unique look at the behind-the-scenes operations of several of the Civil War s most important engagements."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
ISBN-10
1572334428
ISBN-13
9781572334427
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45981901
Product Key Features
Book Title
To Rescue My Native Land : The Civil War Letters of William T. Shepherd, First Illinois Light Artillery
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Military / United States, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, IL, in, Ks, MI, MN, MO, Nd, Ne, OH, Sd, Wi), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Historical, Military
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
24.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E505.8 1st.S54 2006
Edition Number
2
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-007773
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Voices of the Civil War Ser.
Illustrated
Yes
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