Seven months in the rebel states during the North American war, 1863
By: Justus Scheibert ; translated from the German by Joseph C. Hayes ; edited with an introduction by W.M. Stanley Hoole.
Contributors: Hoole, William Stanley, 1903-
Series: Seeing the elephant--Southern eyewitnesses to the Civil War
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780817355913; 9780817382940
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
Work titles: Sieben monate in den rebellen-staaten während des  nordamerikanischen krieges 1863.
Description: Scheibert, a Prussian Army captain traveled through Carolinas and Virginia, and accompanied Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the campaigns of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, and identified with civilians and soldiers who acted as his hosts. His narrative of Lee's spring and summer campaigns in 1863 is loaded with perceptive biographical detail about Lee and a number of his subordinates as well as his observations of a rebel nation.
Notes: Originally published as: Sieben monate in den rebellen-staaten während des  nordamerikanischen krieges 1863. Stetttin : T. von der Nahmer, 1868.  Previously published in English: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : Confederate Pub. Co., 1958.

Includes bibliographical references and index.