Soldiers' Life: Confederate


Confederate Soldier

Georgia Confederate soldier

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CONF030  Confederate Engineer. Training and Campaigning With John Morris Wampler
George G. Kundahl
Wampler was a topographical engineer in the Provisional "Army of the Confederate States and eventually became chief engineer of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.  Based on extensive use of his unpublished correspondence and journals, the biography follows his experiences before hostilities and then during the war in both major theaters. 

Bookguy price $34


AL080 Wearing of the Grey  
John Esten Cooke 
 
Bookguy price  $26.95


AL005   Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life, 1861-65.
C. McCarthy.
First printed in 1882, this book does for the Confederate side what Hardtack and Coffee does for the North. 
Bookguy price  $12.95


AL045  The Heart of a Soldier.  Intimate Wartime Letters from Gen. George E. Pickett to His Wife.    
La Salle Pickett
These tender and moving letters of Gen. Pickett to his wife reflect his courage and devotion of the soldier to his duty and his compassion for the suffering caused by the war.
Bookguy price  $12.95


CAV024   With Pen & Saber. The Letters and Diaries of J.E.B. Stuart's Staff Officers.    
ed. R. Trout.
 
While Stuart led the cavalry, his staff officers wrote frequent letters to their wives, parents, brothers, sisters, and friends, describing what army life was like. 
Bookguy price  $24.95


AL028   In The Woods Before Dawn.   
J. Frey.
 
A compilation of over 70 letters written to and from Jefferson Davis both during and after the Civil War taken directly from the Samuel Richey Collection of the Southern Confederacy. 
Bookguy price  $24.95


AL010H   The Life of Johnny Reb. The Common Soldier of the Confederacy. 
Wiley
.  
First published in 1943. A great overview of the life of the Confederate soldier. $34.95 one copy left