A Confederate Legend: Sargeant Berry Benson in War and Peace

by Cashin, Edward J.

• ISBN13: 9780881461183
• ISBN10: 0881461180
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-30
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr

Author Biography

Edward J. Cashin retired as chairman of the History department at Augusta State University in 1996 to become director of the Center for the Study of Georgia History until his death in 2007.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Publisher's Note	p. xiii
Growing up in Hamburg	p. 1
Fort Sumter	p. 10
The Seven Days	p. 19
Second Manassas	p. 34
Sharpsburg	p. 43
Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville	p. 53
Wartime Augusta	p. 66
The Wilderness and Spotsylvania	p. 86
From Point Lookout to Elmira Prison Camp	p. 103
Through Enemy Country	p. 122
Campaign for Savannah	p. 134
The Lines at Petersburg	p. 143
The Emergence of the Lost Cause	p. 166
The Promise of the New South	p. 189
New Causes, New Campaigns	p. 206
The Confederate's Burden	p. 236
Epilogue	p. 258
Index	p. 263
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