Carrying the flag
Subtitle: the story of private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's unlikely hero
By: Gordon C. Rhea.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
Subjects: Whilden, Charles Edmonston, 1824-1866; Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 1st; Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864; Soldiers -- South Carolina -- Biography; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns; South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories; Charleston (S.C.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The fate of two nations; title: A city by a harbor; title: Life among scoundrels and grasshoppers; title: A desert blasted by fire; title: General Lee's shock troops; title: An eerie, inhospitable region; title: Like a Saturday evening market in Augusta; title: A mortifying disaster; title: Death was always present; title: The mule shoe; title: A human flag pole; title: Under a spreading oak.