Title: The Civil War letters of Joshua K. Callaway
First published: 1997
Description: From the Kentucky Campaign to Tullahoma, Chickamauga to Missionary Ridge, junior officer Joshua K. Callaway took part in some of the most critical campaigns of the Civil War. His twice-weekly letters home, written between April 1862 and November 1863, chronicle his gradual change from an ardent Confederate soldier to a weary veteran who longs to be at home.

Callaway was a schoolteacher, husband, and father of two when he enlisted in the 28th Alabama Infantry Regiment at the age of twenty-seven. Serving with the Army of the Tennessee, he campaigned in Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, and north Georgia. Along the way this perceptive observer and gifted writer wrote a continuous narrative detailing the activities, concerns, hopes, fears, discomforts, and pleasures of a Confederate soldier in the field.

Whether writing about combat, illness, encampments, or homesickness, Callaway makes even the everyday aspects of soldiering interesting. This large collection, seventy-four letters in all, is a valuable historical reference that provides new insights into life behind the front lines of the Civil War.
Subjects: Alabama Civil War, 1861-1865, Biography, Confederate Personal narratives, Confederate States of America, Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 28th, Correspondence, History, Personal narratives, Personal narratives, Confederate, Soldiers, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Confederate states of america, army, Soldiers, correspondence, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives, confederate, Alabama, biography, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, personal narratives
Places: Alabama, United States
People: Joshua K. Callaway
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E551.5 28th .C35 1997