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Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia: Survival in a Civil War Regiment
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by Scott Walker
Sales Rank: 150120
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Discount: 32 %
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Features
Cover Type: Paperback with 311 pages
Published by: University of Georgia Press; New Ed edition July 15, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0820329339
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0820329338
Book Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
"Darling, I never wanted to gow home as terrible in my life as I doo now and if they don t give mee a furlow I am going any how." Written in December 1862 by Private Wright Vinson in Tennessee to his wife, Christiana, in Georgia, these lines go to the heart of why Scott Walker wrote this history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry, a unit of the famed Mercer's Brigade.
All but a few members of the Fifty-seventh lived within a close radius of eighty miles from each other. More than just an account of their military engagements, this is a collective biography of a close-knit group. Relatives and neighbors served and died side by side in the Fifty-seventh, and Walker excels at showing how family ties, friendships, and other intimate dynamics played out in wartime settings. Humane but not sentimental, the history abounds in episodes of real feeling: a starving soldier's theft of a pie; another's open confession, in a letter to his wife, that he may desert; a slave's travails as a camp orderly.
Drawing on memoirs and a trove of unpublished letters and diaries, Walker follows the soldiers of the Fifty-seventh as they push far into Unionist Kentucky, starve at the siege of Vicksburg, guard Union prisoners at the Andersonville stockade, defend Atlanta from Sherman, and more. Hardened fighters who would wish hell on an incompetent superior but break down at the sight of a dying Yankee, these are real people, as rarely seen in other Civil War histories.
About The Author
Scott Walker is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Waco, Texas, the author of nine books, and an adjunct professor at Baylor University. His great-great-grandfather was a member of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Hell's Broke Loose In Georgia: Survival In A Civil War Regiment (Hardcover)
My son's got me this book for my birthday knowing I enjoy reading about the Civil War. I could hardly put it down and had it read in less than a week. The author does an amazing job of combining the history of the war with the letters of members of the 57th Georgia Regiment, of which his great great grandfather was a member. The difficulties this group of soldiers faced were much greater than the bullets from the Union. Disentary, illness, improper clothing, and questionable leadership all contributed to their story. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in the Civil War.
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