
Military Memoirs of a Confederate
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Traber Burns
One of the most important and objective firsthand accounts of the Civil War
Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander objectively evaluated and criticized prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clear-eyed assessment of the bloody conflict that divided but subsequently united the nation.
The memoir starts with Alexander heading to Utah to suppress the hostility of Mormons who had refused to establish a municipal government approved by President Buchanan. Only a few years later, Alexander found himself on the opposite side of a much larger rebellion of Confederates wanting to secede from the Union. In the years that follow, he is involved in most major battles including Manassas, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga.
Alexander describes each battle and battlefield with a keen eye for detail. Few wartime narratives offer such insight and critical perspective as Alexander’s memoir.
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The best account of the Confederate war!
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Amazing Literature
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Civil war
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The General does his homework and is less about his personal experience and more of an oversight of the war. For those who study the Civil War, this is a must read.
A great first hand account
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Best Civil War book on Audible
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Great account of the war
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raised by Douglas Southall Freeman as "altogether the best critique of the operations of the Army of Northern Virginia."
Alexander eschewed the bitter Lost Cause theories of why the South was doomed to fail, given the overwhelming superiority of the North. He was willing to express in writing his criticisms of prominent Confederate officers, including General Lee himself. Many historians regard Alexander's memoirs as among the most objective and sharpest sources produced by a Civil War combatant. David Eicher called Fighting for the Confederacy "a superb personal narrative with a good deal of analysis of Lee's operations ... Dramatic and revealing, an important source on the general, his fellow officers, and the Army of Northern Virginia."
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As for the presentation, it was good but, as the article headline addresses, the word is “thousand” not “thousant”. If the word only occurs a few times, I could overlook the mispronunciation, but it is repeated many many times and is quite a distraction.
Thousand does not end with a “T”
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His insights are the gold nuggets. I wish there was more of that. But they get drowned out in casualty reports. At least for me. I can’t ever see reading this again, unlike the many others I’ve gotten from Audible.
The first one I may exchange
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