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Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

by Carlton McCarthy

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  1. A Voice from the Ranks

    22:09

  2. The Outfit Modified

    16:26

  3. Romantic Ideas Dissipated

    14:02

  4. On the March

    17:35

  5. Cooking and Eating

    22:29

  6. Comforts, Conveniences, and Consolations

    27:58

  7. Fun and Fury on the Field

    26:32

  8. Improvised Infantry

    53:27

  9. "Brave Survivors" Homeward Bound

    23:36

  10. Soldiers Transformed

    20:44

  11. Camp Fires of the Boys in Gray

    32:41

  12. The Battle Flag

    8:04

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 (1882) is a public domain work.

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Carlton McCarthy enlisted in the Second Company of the Richmond Howitzers in October 1864, just after turning seventeen, and he set down the war as the ranks saw it rather than as headquarters reported it. Twelve chapters follow the ordinary Confederate soldier from his over-packed first outfit through the loss of romantic illusions, then on to marching, cooking, sleeping, joking, and fighting, before turning to the surrender, the walk home, and the way veterans afterward remembered one another around reunion campfires. William L. Sheppard, a lieutenant in the same battery, drew the illustrations. Published in Richmond in 1882, it became one of the most quoted accounts of Confederate camp life and one of the clearest early statements of the Lost Cause, which makes it worth reading as testimony and as evidence of how the South chose to remember.

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Carlton McCarthy

Carlton McCarthy (1847-1936) was born in Richmond and joined the Second Company of the Richmond Howitzers in October 1864, at seventeen, serving through the siege of Petersburg and the retreat to Appomattox; an older brother who had commanded the unit was killed at Cold Harbor.

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First published
1882
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
149
Language
English
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Audio read by
David Leeson