A LIFE FOR THE CONFEDERACY - 17th MISSISSIPPI - BRAND NEW

Description: A LIFE FOR THE CONFEDERACY FROM THE WAR DIARY OF ROBERT A. MOORE, PRIVATE, C.S.A. Company G, 17th Mississippi Regiment, Confederate Guards, holly Springs, Mississippi EDITED BY JAMES W. SILVER FORWARD BY BELL IRVIN WILEY MINT CONDITION This book is brand new, unread, and in pristine condition. Sample shown; your book is brand new and still in the publisher's shrink wrap. Mint Condition, New Dust Jacket Clean, Sharp, Bright, Solidly-Bound, Brand New Book Contains Maps and Photos PUBLISHED BY BROADFOOT PUBLISHING, WILMINGTON, IN 1987 “…the diary of an educated Mississippian whose candid observations ended abruptly with his death at Chickamauga.” - Civil War Books. Robert Augustus Moore, aged 25, gave his life for the Confederacy at Chickamauga on September 20, 1863. No one knows where he was buried or whether he was buried at all, and the young Mississippi farmer would be no more than a name on an obscure muster roll had he not kept faithfully a diary of his war-time experiences. This remarkable record not only discloses the personality of its author, but illuminates the daily life of the Confederate soldier. An important Confederate document…. Occasionally young Moore expressed himself in picturesque language which may have been simply the idiom of the day. “Capt. Sears has entered his company for the fall races,” he wrote, and a little later he described Lt. Col. McQuirk as one who “gets about seventy-five cents in the dollar drunk.” More often he indulged in a restrained humor or careful understatement of fact. His descriptions are unusually accurate. When a jumpy sentinel shot a hog by mistake and the men rushed out to repel invasion, Moore wrote, “I do not think they expect a Yankee to look like a man.” On guard himself, he “came near shooting a loose horse tonight because he would not halt and give the countersign.” Army food and clothing and travail were the subjects of mild-mannered thrust: “I have partaken of a fine supper…composed of a slice of raw bacon and a piece of loaf bread. A better supper I never ate.” Before Fredericksburg in December, 1862, “The Rebels complain that their covering was rather too light,” and he wished that “the Yankees would stop troubling us.” At Leesburg, Moore reported that his companions have “received another invitation to work on Fort Beauregard tomorrow,” and he fell that that it “is our Generals favorite amusement to drill us in brigade drill.” On the New Year of 1862, the soldier wrote, “I think we have cause to be proud of our success in driving from our soil the ruthless invader.” In Winder quarters a year later, he mentioned long discussions; “We always close by coming to the conclusion that we will after much hard fighting succeed in establishing our independence.” Defeatism never appears in the diary – “We do not despond but only ask to be let at them on the open field.” With Vicksburg about to fall, “I can but believe all will work out well in that quarter,” and even after terrible losses at Gettysburg: “We fall back from no fear of the enemy but that our army is in no condition to move forward.” Not long before he was killed, Moore wrote that the times were “dark and gloomy and some are getting feint hearted. It is indeed a dark hour but we have seen as dark before. If our cause be just we will yet triumph.” – From the Editor’s Introduction. This is a brand new, unread, pristine-condition book. The dust jacket is brand new and in pristine condition as well. The book has no shortcomings; it is clean, sharp, bright and solidly bound. There isn't a mark in the book. The binding is solid throughout. The book loaded with great illustrations. The book comes in the original, publisher's shrink wrap. This wonderful, brand new, pristine-condition book. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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