Title: The South Carolinians; Colonel Asbury Coward's memoirs.
Authors: Coward, Asbury, 1835-1925.; Bond, Natalie Jenkins,; Coward, Osmun Latrobe,; Bond, Natalie Jenkins,; Coward, Osmun Latrobe,
Publisher: Vantage Press
Year: 1968
Subjects: Coward, Asbury,; United States History Personal narratives, Confederate.
Abstract: "Asbury Coward's account of the South Carolinians' part in the drama played a century ago. Since history must be written from the objective point of view, this is not a history, it is the story of Coward and his comrades [of the Fifth South Carolina Infantry], as he lived it"--Foreword.
Contents: Storm clouds break -- The lull -- Lightning on the peninsula -- Sun and smoke -- Autumn leaves are falling -- Thunder of a distant drum -- Wind from the mountains -- Spring in Tidewater -- Wind and the rain -- Trumpets from the sky -- Cold is the night -- Winter rendezvous -- Another spring -- Hail in the wilderness -- Lengthening shadows -- Twilight at Cold Harbor -- Tornado in Petersburg -- Autumn equinox -- Winter -- The stars fall -- The dawn of nothing -- Postscript.