A Confederate chronicle
Subtitle: the life of a Civil War survivor
By: Pamela Chase Hain.
Series: Shades of blue and gray series
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780826215994
Subjects: Wragg, Thomas L.; Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 8th.; Georgia (Ironclad); Soldiers -- Georgia -- Biography.; Sailors -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.; Prisoners of war -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Biography.; Veterans -- Georgia -- Biography.; Physicians -- Florida -- Quincy -- Biography.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Focuses on the struggles of Civil War veteran Thomas L. Wragg, Confederate officer, prisoner of war, and successful doctor. Documents General Joseph E. Johnston's army at Harpers Ferry and the Battle of Bull Run, Wragg's training on the CSS Georgia, his imprisonment, his courtship, and the effects of posttraumatic stress"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a time of prosperity and peace, 1843-1861; title: The OLI, Company B, and the Eighth Georgia infantry from Savannah to Bull Run, 1861; title: All quiet on the eastern front, summer of 1861-spring of 1862; title: Naval notebook, on board the CSS Georgia, Savannah Squadron, 1863; title: The capture of the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, Savannah, June 17, 1863; title: Fort Warren Prison, Boston Harbor, June 1863-October 1864; title: James River Squadron to Semmes's Brigade, 1864-65; title: Confederate veteran returns to Reconstruction Georgia, 1865; title: Courtship by correspondence, 1866-68; title: Railroad agent, bookkeeper, farmer, store owner, conductor, doctor, 1868-78; title: "Coonbottom" to Quincy, 1878-89; title: Power, kinship, and murder, 1889-91; title: Epilogue : running from scandal; title: Appendix : Tomas L. Wragg poetry.