Tyler Alexander

If I Can Get Home This Fall

A Story of Love, Loss, and a Cause in the Civil War

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Produktbeschreibung

Tyler Alexander chronicles the epic story of Dan Mason, a white man who served in the Civil War as a soldier in the Sixth Vermont Infantry and as an officer in the Nineteenth U.S. Colored Troops.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781640126664
• ISBN-10: 164012666X
• Artikelnr.: 72668292

Autorenporträt

Tyler Alexander is an educator in Vermont who teaches American history and government. He is a former James Madison Fellow and studied forestry, history, and education at the University of Maine and the University of Vermont. One of Alexander’s ancestors served alongside Dan Mason in Company D of the Sixth Vermont.    

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “The Sum of All Villainies”
1. “The Wildest Enthusiasm Prevails” (Winter 1861–62)
2. “The Final Blow to Secession Will Be Struck Here” (Spring 1862)
3. “We Had a Pretty Rough Time” (Summer 1862)
4. “I Don’t Know What the Next Flop Will Be” (Fall 1862)
5. “Disgusted with the Manner the Machine Is Handled” (Winter 1862–63)
6. “You Cannot Imagine the Thrill of Joy” (Spring 1863)
7. “It Begins to Look Like Putting Down Rebellion” (Summer 1863)
8. “The Rotten Treacherous Walls of Slavery” (Fall 1863)
9. “There Is Something Wild and Exciting That Makes It Bewitching” (Winter
1863–64)
10. “I Was Really Proud of My Command” (Spring 1864)
11. “I Say Fight Them” (Summer 1864)
12. “When Will the Cruel War End?” (Fall 1864)
13. “My Future Happiness” (Winter 1864–65)
14. “You Don’t Know How I Would Like to See You” (Spring 1865)
15. “If I Can Get Home This Fall” (Summer 1865)
16. “A Brave and Elegant Soldier” (Fall 1865)
Epilogue: “Let Us Not Mock Our Honored Dead”
Notes
Bibliography
Index