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Subtitle: a Civil War memoir from Manassas to Appomattox
By: [edited by] Walbrook D. Swank.
Contributors: Swank, Walbrook D.
Series: Civil War heritage series ;; v. 10
Publisher: Burd Street Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Shippensburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Cave, Robert Catlett, 1843-1923.; Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 13th. Company A.; Soldiers -- Virginia -- Orange County -- Biography.; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.; Orange County (Va.) -- Biography.
Description: Robert Catlett Cave of Orange County, Virginia, promised his dying father that he would serve Virginia as long as she might need his services. He joined the Montpelier Guard, Co. A., Thirteenth Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. This unit participated in more than seventy various types of engagements during his career - from Manassas to Appomattox.

In his brilliant, vivid and fascinating story of his Civil War experiences, a member of General "Stonewall" Jackson's "foot cavalry" takes you through four years of battles and engagements with eyewitness accounts of fierce and bloody combat. He was wounded twice and his narrative brings the "Rebel Yell" to life. During the four years of the conflict, the killing fields of Virginia saw sixty-five percent of all the fighting that occurred in the course of the war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 85) and index.