In this Book
- Recollections of War Times: By An Old Veteran while under Stonewall Jackson and Lieutenant General James Longstreet
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
- Series: Seeing the Elephant
summary
Recollections of War Times is a dramatically improved edition of William A. “Gus” McClendon’s memoir of his service in the 15th Alabama Infantry. It has long been recognized among the rarest books by any veteran of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Keith Bohannon has conducted relentless research that uncovered a gratifying array of new information about McClendon, as well as new photographs. The introduction based on that research might be a model for the genre, full of details acquired from arcane sources that throw new light on the subject. Bohannon's new exhaustive index also makes McClendon's memoir notably more accessible.
"Gus" McClendon joined the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment, and served in many of the Eastern Theater engagements. More than fifty years later, he sent down his reminiscences, still an unreconstructed Southern patriot, although able to look back with some amusement on his younger self.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780817383312
Related ISBN(s)
9780817355869
MARC Record
OCLC
778874763
Pages
300
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2010