Fighting for the Confederacy : The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander

by Alexander, Edward Porter

• ISBN13: 9780807847220
• ISBN10: 0807847224
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

First published by UNC Press in 1989, Porter Alexander's Fighting for the Confederacy is now considered one of the richest personal accounts of the Civil War. Intended for family and intimate friends, it is an insider's candid and evocative assessment of people and events.Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East and had frequent contact with the high command of the Army of Northern Virginia. A West Point graduate, he also is the author of Military Memoirs of a Confederate (1907), an acclaimed general history of Lee's army.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Introduction	xiii	(12)
Editor's Note	xxv
Chapter 1. Early Days	3	(34)
Chapter 2. First Manassas or Bull Run	37	(23)
Chapter 3. Fall & Winter after Bull Run	60	(34)
Chapter 4. Seven Days	94	(27)
Chapter 5. Second Manassas Campaign	121	(17)
Chapter 6. Sharpsburg Campaign	138	(17)
Chapter 7. The Fall of 1862	155	(11)
Chapter 8. The Battle of Fredericksburg	166	(22)
Chapter 9. Winter after Fredericksburg	188	(6)
Chapter 10. Battle of Chancellorsville	194	(25)
Chapter 11. The Gettysburg Campaign	219	(65)
Chapter 12. Chickamauga	284	(16)
Chapter 13. Chattanooga & Knoxville	300	(34)
Chapter 14. Spring of 1864	334	(11)
Chapter 15. Wilderness & Spottsylvania	345	(42)
Chapter 16. North Anna & Drury's Bluff	387	(8)
Chapter 17. Totopotomoy & Cold Harbor	395	(20)
Chapter 18. Passage of James River	415	(20)
Chapter 19. Siege of Petersburg	435	(33)
Chapter 20. Fall of 1864	468	(18)
Chapter 21. Fall & Winter of 1864 & '65	486	(24)
Chapter 22. Appomattox	510	(43)
Notes	553	(60)
Index	613