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Gunner With Stonewall: Reminiscences of William Thomas Poague
Published in Paperback by Univ of Nebraska Pr (1998)
Authors: William Thomas Poague, Monroe F. Cockrell, Bell Irvin Wiley, and Robert K. Krick
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Gunner With Stonewall
Gunner With Stonewall is a typical and valuable first hand account of life in wartime. Filled with intersting atecdotes and personal details, it is closer in perspective to Henry Kyd Douglas' "I Rode With Stonewall" than Foote's or Catton's histories on the same period. This lends and air of timelessness and similarity with WWII- and Vietnam-era first -hand accounts. Written many years after the fact, the book contains some minor innaccuracies ultimately clarified by the Editor. All in all, considering the dirth of books about Confederate Army Artillery, it is a good read that diserves a place on the historian's bookshelf.

Acerbic and interesting first-person memoir
Poague reminds me of Porter Alexander in his occasionally acerbic tone and his willingness to tell it like he thinks it is with regards to generals and their foibles. Maybe it's an artillery thing. Also like Alexander, he's refreshingly bloodthirsty -- no Gordon-esque blandishments about chivalry here. His account of the death of Federal Gen. Kearny contrasts interestingly with other accounts I've read, and his description of the surrender at Appomattox is particularly evocative.


The Founding of Harman's Station: With an Account of the Indian Captivity of Mrs Jennie Wiley and the Exploration and Settlement of the Big Sany vall
Published in Paperback by Heritage Books (1989)
Author: William Elsey Connelley
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