Johnny Green of the Orphan Brigade

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University Press of Kentucky

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491_9780813122212

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY KENT MASTERSON BROWN Winner of the General Basil W. Duke Award for best Civil War reprint A riveting view of frontline Civil War action at Shiloh, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Atlanta, and many other crucial battles. John W. Green (1841-1920), an enlisted man with Kentuckys famed Confederate Orphan Brigade throughout the Civil War, fought at Shiloh, Baton Rouge, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Atlanta and many other crucial battles. An acute observer with a flair for humanizing the impersonal horror of war, he kept a record of his experiences, and penned an exciting front-line account of Americas defining trial by fire. A.D. Kirwan provides a brief history of the Orphan Brigade and a biography of Johnny Green. Introductions to each chapter explain references in the journal and also set the context for the major campaigns.

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