All for the Union : The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Overview
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780679738282
- ISBN-10: 0679738282
- Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
- Publish Date: July 1992
- Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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