Dewitt Clinton Beckwith

From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton's Regulars

A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment
Herausgeber: Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr.

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Produktbeschreibung

"Sixty years after the Civil War, the 121st New York Volunteers (Upton's Regulars) finally published a history of their regiment. Its stated author was a man who had not served directly with the 121st but had based the book on a memoir written by a survivor who had enlisted at age 15. That boy, Dewitt Clinton Beckwith, published his memoir thirty years after the war in an obscure upstate New York newspaper, The Mohawk Democrat. For years, the "origin story" lay in plain sight, until editor Salvatore Cilella discovered the memoir while performing research for a regimental history"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781476691121
• ISBN-10: 1476691126
• Artikelnr.: 73703119

Autorenporträt

Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr. is retired after a 43-year museum career and is the author/editor of several books. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Acknowledgments
vi Preface
1 Introduction
3 1.
Beckwith Goes for a Soldier
23 2.
Beckwith Enlists Again
34 3.
The Reality of War
44 4.
"Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg!"
52 5.
Salem Church
63 6.
Gettysburg
75 7.
Summer and Fall 1863
84 8.
The Overland Campaign
95 9.
Slaughter at Cold Harbor
112 10.
Saving Washington and into the Valley
123 11.
The Siege of Petersburg
139 12.
War's End
149 13.
Going Home
158 Chapter Notes
165 Bibliography
223 Index
233