Campbell Brown's Civil War: With Ewell and the Army of Northern Virginia

by Brown, Campbell; Jones, Terry L.; Jones, Terry L.

• ISBN13: 9780807127032
• ISBN10: 0807127035
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

The Civil War writings of G. Campbell Brown -- cousin, stepson, and staff officer of famed Confederate General Richard S. Ewell -- provide a comprehensive account of the major campaigns in the north Virginia theater. Terry L. Jones has performed an invaluable service by gathering these widely scattered but oftcited primary sources into a deftly edited volume.

Brown's memoir details his service under Ewell during the campaigns of First Manassas, the Shenandoah Valley, the Seven Days, Second Manassas, and Gettysburg, and under Joseph E. Johnston at Vicksburg. His correspondence and memoranda form a suspenseful recounting of the Overland Campaign, the siege of Richmond, and a harrowing retreat that ended with the capture of Brown and Ewell at Sayler's Creek just three days before Robert E. Lee's surrender. Their subsequent three-month captivity in Fort Warren, Massachusetts, is documented in Brown's letters.

Leaders such as Ewell, Johnston, Lee (whose daughter Brown tried to marry), "Stonewall" Jackson, and Jubal A. Early come to life in rich anecdotes and occ

Author Biography

Terry L. Jones is professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
First Manassas	17	(23)
Quiet Times	40	(38)
The Valley Campaign	78	(33)
The Seven Days	111	(25)
Cedar Mountain and Second Manassas	136	(28)
The Spring Hill Incident	164	(13)
With Joe Johnston	177	(11)
The Gettysburg Campaign	188	(43)
Britoe Station and Winter Quarters	231	(15)
The Overland Campaign and Lynchburg	246	(20)
Notes on the Campaign Before Richmond, 1864--1865	266	(7)
Defeat and Capture	273	(11)
Prisoner of War	284	(16)
The War in Words	300	(35)
Respected Citizen	335	(22)
Appendix	357	(34)
Bibliography	391	(10)
Index	401