John Dooley's Civil War
Subtitle: an Irish American's journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment
By: edited by Robert Emmett Curran
Contributors: Curran, Robert Emmett
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Voices of the civil war
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781572338227
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Prisoners and prisons; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 1st; Confederate States of America; Soldiers; Confederate Personal narratives; Irish American soldiers; Johnson Island Prison; Biography; History
Description: "John Dooley's Civil War gives us ... a comprehensive version of Dooley's 'war notes', which editor Robert Curran has reassembled from seven different manuscripts ... The notes were created as diaries that recorded Dooley's service as an officer in the famed First Virginia Regiment along with twenty months as a prisoner of war ... In addition to the war notes, the book includes a prewar essay that Dooley wrote in defense of secession and an extended poem he penned in 1870 on what he perceived as the evils of Reconstruction"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.