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Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863 by Wiley Britton (2008, Hardcover)

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PREFACE. DURIN the year 1863, I chronicled the vents mentioned in the following pages just I . pressed me by neti al observation, br by irithdrities dee1rle. d reliable. Though my manuscript cont ined all the facts here presented, cxcept a few notes made fm n of ficial data, I have never considered it in suita ble shape for publication. In rewriting it, I have stricken out certain criticisms and passages hastily set down in camp or on the march, and I hope that I h ve improved the expression in varions ways. I have en deavored to make thc work a pamo amic view of military operations and events on the borders of Xissonri, Kansas, Arkansas and the Indian Territorv dur ing the ycar 1363. Eighteen years have now elapsed since I collected the material from which my lfemoirs are written, and I have not as yet met with a single book pretending to give any kind of an accoant of the military operations of our arrny for any one year during the rebellion, in, that portion of the Trans-Mississippi region mentioned in the followi clh a pters. Though o ne might, by rnmmaging the archives of the War Department, get material enough on t of general orders and official reports of battles, skirmishes, etc., in that region, to enable him to writc a small volume, he wonld get very little of the kind of material that I collected. I noted not only the movements of the a . r wj . with which 1 was connected, and the lqt leoLa. n d, minor cngagernents which it fought E hnecla side xrow and then to note a, good many other things as, for instance, the thoughts and fselings of the soldiers on various subjects, as reflected in their conversa tions around their camp fires and on the march. I havealso given shortdescriptions of the country we marched over and around our camps the pro and con opinions of officers and soldiers in regard to the policy of the Government, in emancipating the slaves and of enlisting the freedxnerl . into the army. Aria on several occasions I give a mo-S ments thong to natural phcnomcnn, which were subjects of conversation in the camp. The critical reader may, perhaps, think that I have in one instance purposely arranged my composition to show that coming events cast their shadows be fore. But I have not. The facts however, show that they sometimes do. Gen. Shelbys raid throng Riissouri in October, 1863, affords an example. The approaching storrn was indicated a r a l ywe ek hefore the in-asion by the main force took place, and we are almost nlade to hear the distant r lnlblirlg o f artillery carriages and caissons, and the faint tramping of marching squadrons. Should it be atjked why I have allowed eighteen years to elapse before printing my chronicles, I reply becansc I felt that they should hare a more carcful and critical revision than I haw been able to give them nn til lately, before going to t, he public. literary cornpositioil even of this kind, like other art compositions, as in painting and sculptnre, for instance, is always tjusceptible of improvement in the manner of presentation, withol ta ffecting its truthfulness ill regard to the matter treated of. I have no doubt but that nlueh more trin ming and pruning might have been done to good advantage...

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Kessinger Publishing
ISBN-10
0548966117
ISBN-13
9780548966112
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Book Title
Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863
Author
Wiley Britton
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General, Military
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
454 Pages

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9in
Item Height
1.1in
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6in
Item Weight
29.5 Oz

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973.73

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