Mother, may you never see the sights I have seen : the Fifty-seventh Massachusetts Veteran Volunteers in the Army of the Potomac, 1864-1865 / Warren Wilkinson
- Bib ID:
- 924907
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Wilkinson, Warren
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Harper & Row, c1990
- xix, 665 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0060162570
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: List of Maps and Illustrations vii
- Foreword xi
- Preface xiii
- 1 Camp John E. Wool
- 2 Forming the Line 16
- 3 The Girl I Left Behind Me 34
- 4 Storm Across the Rapidan 50
- 5 Hellfire 66
- 6 And the Fires of Hell 84
- 7 My Soul to Keep 93
- 8 Mother, May You Never See the Sights I Have Seen
- 9 To Go to Your Cupboard, Hannah 124
- 10 The Brave Amongst the Bravest 130
- 11 Shelter Without Fire 145
- 12 The Cockade City 163
- 13 You Leg It Like the Devil 176
- 14 Black Interlude 190
- 15 To Just Endure 203
- 16 A Continual Rattle of Musketry 217
- 17 Rumors 229
- 18 Bury Them If They Won't Move 245
- 19 Thirty Men 266
- 20 This Damnable Place for a Dog 282
- 21 Hard Seasons 297
- 22 To Have This Business Closed Up 317
- 23 One Last Desperate Effort 322
- 24 The Ladies They Will All Turn Out 342
- Epilogue 368
- Notes 373
- Abbreviations in the Rosters and Appendixes 400
- Rosters 403
- Appendixes 625
- Bibliography 643
- Index 651.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 643-649) and index.
- Subject:
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- United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 57th (1864-1865) -- History
- United States. Army -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century
- Massachusetts -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1990
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