Boy Colonel of the Confederacy : The Life and Times of Henry King Burgwyn, Jr.

by Davis, Archie K.

• ISBN13: 9780807816479
• ISBN10: 0807816477
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1985-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Irony and the Tragedy	p. 3
The Lady from Boston	p. 9
On the Roanoke	p. 19
Harry Burgwyn--His Formative Years	p. 30
A Cadet at Virginia Military Institute	p. 40
You Can Get No Troops from North Carolina	p. 58
In Dead Earnest	p. 71
The Descent upon New Bern	p. 91
My Command Was the Last to Retreat	p. 108
After New Bern	p. 127
We Literally Hear Nothing or Know Nothing	p. 139
In Defense of Richmond	p. 153
The Boy Becomes a Colonel	p. 176
I am Proud of My Command	p. 190
Skill under Fire	p. 203
Goldsboro under Attack	p. 213
A Winter of Tedious Monotony	p. 223
My Compliments to Miss Annie Devereux	p. 236
Back to Virginia	p. 249
And Now I Must Bid You Good Bye	p. 265
Roads to Gettysburg	p. 277
Gettysburg--Morning of the First	p. 292
Afternoon in McPherson's Grove	p. 308
So Noble & So Glorious	p. 329
Afterword	p. 340
Appendix	p. 349
Notes	p. 355
Index	p. 395
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