| Civil War Memoir of Philip Daingerfield Stephenson, D. D.: Private, Company K, 13th Arkansas Volunteer Infantry, Loader, Piece No. 4, 5th Company, Was Contributor(s): Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0807122696 ISBN-13: 9780807122693 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Military - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97046689 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.08" W x 9.03" (1.25 lbs) 412 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Geographic Orientation - Arkansas - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Truth in history is sacred and these things must be said." So writes Philip Stephenson in this remarkable memoir about his four years of service in the Army of Tennessee. Written in 1865, when he was twenty, Stephenson's diary relates his observations and reminiscences in painstaking detail. A private who became a veteran infantryman and artilleryman, Stephenson witnessed the death of Leonidas Polk and shared a blanket with a sleeping General Breckinridge. Ably edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., Stephenson's vibrant memoirs indeed stand out, as he had hoped, "as though photographed in letters of fire." |