Title: A Southern soldier's letters home
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.
Subjects: Correspondence, Georgia Civil War, 1861-1865, Confederate States of America. Army. Cobb's Legion. Infantry Battalion, Confederate States of America, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Soldiers, Confederate Personal narratives, Regimental histories, Biography, History, Burney, Samuel A., Personal Memoirs, Historical - General, Biography / Autobiography, Shepherd, Sarah Elizabeth,, U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877), American Letters And Correspondence, History: World, Georgia, Burney, Samuel A, Military, United States - Civil War, (Samuel Augustus),, Madison, 1840-1896, 1840-1901
Places: Georgia, Madison, Madison (Ga.), United States
People: Samuel A. Burney (1840-1896), Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd (1840-1901)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865