A Southern soldier's letters home
Subtitle: the Civil War letters of Samuel A. Burney, Cobb's Georgia Legion, Army of Northern Virginia
By: edited by Nat S. Turner III.
Contributors: Turner, Nat S.; Shepherd, Sarah Elizabeth, 1840-1901.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Macon, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Burney, Samuel A. 1840-1896 -- Correspondence.; Shepherd, Sarah Elizabeth, 1840-1901 -- Correspondence.; Confederate States of America. Army. Cobb's Legion. Infantry Battalion.; Soldiers -- Georgia -- Madison -- Correspondence.; Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.; Georgia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories.; Madison (Ga.) -- Biography.
Genres: Correspondence.; Personal narratives, Confederate.; Biography.
Description: "Samuel A. Burney, born in April 1840, was the son of Thomas Jefferson Burney and Julia Shields Burney. He graduated from Mercer University (then at Penfield, Georgia) in 1860. He joined the Panola Guards, an infantry component of Thomas R. R. Cobb's Georgia Legion, in July 1861. For the next four years he served in the Army of Northern Virginia both in Virginia and in Tennessee. Burney was wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and as a result of his wound he was placed on disability in March 1864 and served the remainder of the war on commissary duty in southwest Georgia." "These letters of a college graduate written to his wife - Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd - are lyrical and beautifully written. Burney describes battles, camp life, theology, and the day-to-day dreariness of life in the army. This is an astounding collection of letters for anyone interested in the Civil War or the South."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-300) and index.
Collected letters of Samuel Burney written to his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd.