A volunteer in the regulars : the Civil War journal and memoir of Gilbert Thompson, US Engineer Battalion /
At the outbreak of the war, Gilbert Thompson joined the regular army and was assigned to the engineer battalion. He began writing a journal of his service. After the war, Thompson took his three wartime journals and interleaved them into a single volume, adding some of his postwar reflections along...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Voices of the Civil War series.
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| Summary: | At the outbreak of the war, Gilbert Thompson joined the regular army and was assigned to the engineer battalion. He began writing a journal of his service. After the war, Thompson took his three wartime journals and interleaved them into a single volume, adding some of his postwar reflections along the way. Thus, the text he left to posterity is both journal and memoir, and he maintains a clear delineation between these two perspectives throughout. Thompson was also an accomplished artist and topographer, and his sketches from the field add a unique visual narrative to this book. His service, including activity at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Petersburg, extended well into 1864. |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781621905592 1621905594 |