All for the Union
The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Rhodes, Elisha Hunt
Rhodes, Robert Hunt (EDT)
Rhodes, Robert Hunt
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."
BOOK REVIEWS
"One of the best firsthand accounts I have read of campaigning and combat in the Civil War." -- James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom
"One of the most remarkable diaries I have ever read. Elisha Hunt Rhodes saw action from Bull Run to Appomattox and somehow survived, and his diary came to represent, better than any other I found, the spirit of the Union soldier." -- Ken Burns, director and writer of The Civil War
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679738282
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679738282
Copyright: 1992
Dewey Decimal: 973.7/445
Library of Congress: 91050734
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 248
Paper Weight (lb): 0.55
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