Reseña del libro "The Best of Confederate Veteran Volume 2 (en Inglés)"
The Confederate Veteran Magazine was published monthly between 1893 and 1932; nearly 40 years of articles. This book contains a selection of some of the "best" articles. #1 Last Battles of the War - A journal by B. L. Ridley of Murfreesboro, TN who was aide to Gen. A. P. Stewart. The jounal begins on March 17, 1865 and extends through the battle of Bentonville.#2 "Deserter" Pardoned by General Lee - "MY DEAR EDWARD.-I have always been proud of you, and since your connection with the Confederate Army I have been prouder of you shall ever. I would not have you do anything wrong for the world; but before God, Edward, unless you come home, we must die! Last night I was roused by little Eddie crying. I called and said, 'What's the matter, Eddie?' and he said, 'O mamma, I am so hungry!' And Lucy, your darling Lucy, she never complains, but she is growing thinner every day, and I repeat, unless you come home, we must all die. YOUR MARY.”#3 The Preacher Stole the Skillet. - The recounting of a humorous incident which occurred in the spring of 1865 in South Carolina.#4 Forrest's Old Regiment - While the battle was at white heat I turned to speak to [Col. E. B.] Trezevant of how gallantly the men were bearing themselves, and I noticed that he looked pale. I stepped closer and said, "Colonel, are you hit!" The reply was, "Yes, Captain, I am killed. Take charge of the regiment."#6 Alabamians in the Crater Battle. - A first hand account by the Captain of the 11th Alabama Infantry.#7 Inside the lines at Franklin. - Francis "Fannie" O'Bryan, a schoolgirl at the Franklin Female Institute recounts the battle and its aftermath. In the afternoon, December 1st, some of us went to the battlefield, to give water and wine to the wounded. All of us carried cups from which to refresh the thirsty. Horrors! what sights that met our girlish eyes! The dead and wounded lined the Columbia pike for the distance of a mile. In Mrs. Sykes' yard, Gen. Hood sat talking with some of his staff officers. I didn't look upon him as a hero, because nothing had been accomplished that could benefit us. As we approached Col. Carter's house, we could scarcely walk without stepping on dead or dying men.#8 Reminiscences of the Wilderness. - The author, Marcus B. Toney of Nashville, TN of Gen. Ed. Johnson's Division, revisits the battlesite some 30 years later. We did not sleep any that night, but worked like beavers with our bayonets and tin plates. By noon of the 11th our trenches were five and a half feet deep, with pine logs resting in front and on top of the embankment, with sufficient space to shoot through. There was a cold, drizzling rain all day of the 11th and through the night, and we were in these muddy trenches. The rain rendered many of the guns useless...After nearly thirty-one years the trenches are grown up with oak and pine, thirty to forty feet high. What a fearful campaign from the 5th of May to the 12th, when over 4,000 men fell, and in the seven days with nothing to eat but cornbread, and very little sleep. How changed was Palmer's Field! Where I saw the 1,100 dead, is now grown up a wilderness of pines, so dense the sun cannot penetrate.#9 The Artillery at Bentonville - The author recounts the loss and recapture of a confederate gun.#10 Federal Veterans at Shiloh - What really happened to the Confederate Gold. Capt. Lot Abraham, of the Fourth Illinois Cavalry, near the close of the struggle was assigned to command of the post at Washington, Ga. He was busy soon after arrival paroling soldiers, when a gentleman walked in, tapped him on the shoulder, and said: "My name is Toombs. Breckinridge, in passing my house the other day, threw down from his horse a meal-sack containing money, which belongs to your Government, and it is your duty to take charge of it..."
