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Dec 13, Peter rated it it was amazing Shelves: The knot at the heart of all Civil War memoirs is that the contrast between the story of a war — full of blood, pain, failure, comedy deriving from all of these things, and other messy human realities — in language that a lateth century American publisher and audience would find acceptable. Ulysses Grant had help from his friend, Mark Twain, though even his written orders show the lucid, forceful prose quality that make his memoirs a classic.
Lost Cause propagandists like Jefferson Davis an The knot at the heart of all Civil War memoirs is that the contrast between the story of a war — full of blood, pain, failure, comedy deriving from all of these things, and other messy human realities — in language that a lateth century American publisher and audience would find acceptable.
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Lost Cause propagandists like Jefferson Davis and Jubal Early could more easily pitch themselves to the cheap sentimental romanticism that rhetoric of the era encouraged than could Union people and abolitionists though lord knows both tried. John Beatty, an Ohioan who rose to Brigadier-General over the course of the war, created a classic with a consistent voice and a wry critical eye.
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He saw heavy action at Stone River and Chickamauga, but for the most part he talks about marching and camp life. His battle descriptions are decent but the real visceral stuff he packs in surrounds food, cold, exhaustion, and smells.
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He talks about the endless politicking. At first this is mostly between officers; seemingly ever ambitious man from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois saw the war more as an opportunity to make connections than anything else. But eventually a different kind of politics takes hold amongst the men- over the course of the war, you see them come to see themselves as a liberating army, and Beatty takes pride in that and castigated both dithering, soft generals like Buell and domestic dissidents in harsh terms.
The story of the Union in the Civil War was, in many respects, the story of deeply imperfect people trying — and in more ways than one would expect, succeeding — to be equal to an epochal historical change. May 23, Monte Lamb rated it liked it Shelves: This is a diary of an officer in the Army of The Cumberland who rose to brigade command and was involved in fighting from Perryville until Chattanooga. It is well written and gives a good flavor of camp life and his opinions and attitudes towards other officers and the men.
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I would think it a very typical diary for its time except it flows real nicely and is easy to read. It doesn't waste any words with superfluous over-the-top dramatizations but does give a good idea for what happened to this m This is a diary of an officer in the Army of The Cumberland who rose to brigade command and was involved in fighting from Perryville until Chattanooga. It doesn't waste any words with superfluous over-the-top dramatizations but does give a good idea for what happened to this man and his men.
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