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History of Kershaw's Brigade With Complete Roll of Companies, Biographical Sketches, Incidents, Anecdotes, etc.

Dickert, D. A. (David Augustus) · Public domain text

237,376 words · about 16 h 37 min to read

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Author
D. A. Dickert (1844–1917)
Language
English
Subjects
United States › History › Civil War, 1861-1865 › Regimental histories, Confederate States of America. Army. Kershaw's Brigade
Length
237,376 words · about 16 h 37 min
Sections
48 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (48)
  1. Opening under 1 min
  2. Introduction about 8 min
  3. Introduction about 8 min
  4. I. SECESSION about 11 min
  5. II. ENROLLMENT OF TROOPS about 22 min
  6. Chapter III about 24 min
  7. Chapter IV about 25 min
  8. Chapter V about 19 min
  9. VI. Vienna--Flint Hill--Duel Sports--July to October about 20 min
  10. VII. Winter Quarters at Bull Run about 37 min
  11. VIII. Reorganized--"New Officers"--Battle about 15 min
  12. IX. Battle of Seven Pines--Seven Days' Fight Around Richmond about 39 min
  13. Chapter X about 21 min
  14. XI. Sharpsburg or Antietam--Return to Virginia about 23 min
  15. XII. From Winchester to Fredericksburg about 18 min
  16. Chapter XIII about 29 min
  17. XIV. Incidents of the Battle--Comparisons With Other Engagements about 17 min
  18. XV. Reminiscences about 7 min
  19. XVI. Campaign of 1863--Battle of Chancellorsville about 22 min
  20. Chapter XVII about 21 min
  21. XVIII. Battle of Gettysburg--July 2d about 15 min
  22. XIX. Gettysburg Continued--Pickett's Charge about 12 min
  23. Chapter XX about 22 min
  24. XXI. Transferred to Georgia--Scenes Along the Route about 13 min
  25. XXII. The Battle of Chickamauga about 13 min
  26. XXIII. Notes of the Battle--Pathetic Scenes--Sketches of Officers about 14 min
  27. XXIV. In Front of Chattanooga about 30 min
  28. XXV. Around Knoxville--The Siege and Storming of Fort Sanders about 23 min
  29. Chapter XXVI about 20 min
  30. Chapter XXVII about 12 min
  31. XXVIII. In Camp on the Holston, East Tennessee. Return to Virginia about 12 min
  32. XXIX. Battle of the Wilderness about 20 min
  33. XXX. Brock's Cross Road and Spottsylvania to North Anna about 15 min
  34. Chapter XXXI about 18 min
  35. XXXII. From Cold Harbor to Petersburg about 19 min
  36. XXXIII. In the Trenches Around Petersburg about 50 min
  37. XXXIV. Leaves the Trenches in the Shenandoah Valley about 14 min
  38. XXXV. Reminiscences of the Valley about 19 min
  39. XXXVI. Leaves the Valley--Return to Early--Second Valley Campaign about 12 min
  40. XXXVII. Battle of Cedar Creek or Fisher's Hill, 19th October, 1864 about 43 min
  41. Chapter XXXVIII about 31 min
  42. XXXIX. Peace Conference--State Troops--Women of the South about 13 min
  43. Chapter XL about 22 min
  44. XLI. On the Saltkahatchie. February, 1865 about 9 min
  45. XLII. March Through South Carolina, February and March, 1865 about 22 min
  46. XLIII. From Smithfield to Greensboro--The Surrender about 10 min
  47. XLIV. Retrospect about 21 min
  48. Appendix about 1 h 27 min

The opening of Introduction

For three reasons, one purely personal (as you will soon see), I am pleased to play even a small part in the reprinting of D. Augustus Dickert's The History of Kershaw's Brigade ... an undertaking in my judgment long, long, overdue.

First, it is a very rare and valuable book. Privately published by Dickert's friend and neighbor, Elbert H. Aull, owner-editor of the small-town weekly Newberry (S.C.) Herald and News, almost all of the copies were shortly after water-logged in storage and destroyed. Meantime, only a few copies had been distributed, mostly to veterans and to libraries within the state. Small wonder, then, that Kershaw's Brigade ... so long out-of-print, is among the scarcest of Confederate War books--a point underscored by the fact that no copy has been listed in American Book Prices Current in fifty years. Only one sale of the book is recorded in John Mebane's Books Relating to the Civil War (1963), an ex-library copy which sold for $150. More recently, another copy, oddly described as "library indicia, extremely rare," was offered for sale by second-hand dealer for $200.

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