A citizen-soldier's Civil War
Subtitle: the letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris
By: edited by Jerome Mushkat.
Contributors: Mushkat, Jerome.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: DeKalb
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Voris, Alvin C. -- Correspondence.; United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 67th (1861-1865); Generals -- United States -- Correspondence.; Ohio -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
Genres: Correspondence.; Personal narratives.
Description: "When "citizen-soldier" Alvin Coe Voris wrote his first letter to his beloved wife, Lydia, in 1861, he embarked on a correspondence that would span the duration of the Civil War. A former Ohio legislator, Voris filled his letters with keen insights into the daily life of soldiers, army politics, and such issues as the morality of combat and the evils of slavery.

Often heartwrenching and invariably gripping, the 428 letters collected in this volume form an unbroken and unique Civil War chronicle."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-307) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION "I Cannot Bear to Think of a Dismembered Country" 3; title: 1 "Soldering Is 'Romantic Indeed"; title: ILLUSION AND THE FIRST BATTLE OF KERNSTOWN 19; title: 2 "'The 67th J{as Not Been Stationary"; title: THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN 43; title: 3 "'Terrible Realities of a Protracted and Savage 'War"; title: THE PENINSULA CAMPAIGN 67; title: 4 "Never Ceasing Scramblefor 'This Bauble 9lory"; title: THE CHARLESTON SIEGE AND FORT WAGNER 95; title: 5 "Old Promptly J{as Returned"; title: CHARLESTON UNCONQUERED 133; title: 6 "Days of Intense Anxiety and Peril"; title: THE ARMY OF THE JAMES 156; title: 7 "Constantly under Tire"; title: THE BERMUDA HUNDRED FRONT 173; title: 8 "A Desolated Country Cursed by Slavery and Slavery's War"; title: STALEMATE AND MONOTONY AT BERMUDA HUNDRED 195; title: 9 "I Would Nfot Feel It Any 'Degradation to Command Colored Troops"; title: TRENCH WARFARE, DEEP BOTTOM, AND DARBYTOWN ROAD 211; title: 10 "Each Day Brings the War So Much Near a Close"; title: THE APPOMATTOX CAMPAIGN 241; title: 11 "A Black Woman 3Jad 'Rights"; title: RECONSTRUCTION IN VIRGINIA 256.