Soldier and Scholar
Subtitle: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War (Publications of the Southern Texts Society)
Contributors: Basil L. Gildersleeve (Editor); Ward W. Briggs (Editor)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: February 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780813917436
Subjects: Biography: general; Civil war; c 1800 to c 1900; History: American; U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); History - U.S.; USA; Politics and government; Historical - U.S.; United States - Civil War; Gildersleeve, Basil L; Confederate States of America; Civil War, 1861-1865; History; Social conditions; Sources; United States
First sentence: "Even the most charitable of my Northern friends find it difficult to understand how a Southerner could have gone into the conflict with a clean conscience and whenever a reference is made to the war there is a certain reticence among wellbred people as if the Southern interlocutor had fallen into some heinous sin."