Three Years a Soldier by Richard Griffin
Three Years a Soldier combines the diary, correspondence, and literary efforts of Private George Perkins of the Sixth New York Independent Battery, beginning in December 1861 and ending December 1864. The letters and essays-never before published in any collection of Civil War material-offer extended commentary and provide additional insights on the events related in the diary. Taken together, the diary, newspaper letters, and other documents tell a coherent story from the viewpoint of an educated private soldier in the Army of the Potomac. Not only did Perkins provide detailed, accurate reports of the battles and camp life of his service, but he also criticized top army leadership and offered commentaries on major personal and national issues, including his notions of the nature of courage, political issues such as the treatment of draft dodgers, and the effects of slavery. As his writings reveal, Perkins embodied the fiercely independent Northern free laborer whom Lincoln always claimed would win the war-and whose values the war would vindicate. Over time, Perkins's writings show that his personal reasons for joining the Union army became identified with the national goals of the Union effort: he came to believe that the existence of slavery was incompatible with the achievement of an advanced, just, and noble society based on free institutions. Three Years a Soldier will appeal to scholars and Civil War enthusiasts alike. Scholars will find rich primary source documents, most never before published. Civil War enthusiasts will discover that the Perkins diary and accompanyingMiddlesex Journal letters document the evolution and development of combined cavalry and horse artillery operations.-
Second Manassas
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Imprisoned at Camp Douglas
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Fighting with Stonewall in the Valley
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John Dooley's Civil War
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Memoirs of Lieut.-General Winfield Scott
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Sailing with Farragut
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The Lynches of South Carolina
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A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley
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To Succeed or Perish
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No Pardons to Ask, nor Apologies to Make
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Haunted by Memory
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In Memory of Self and Comrades
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Quest for a Star
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From Huntsville to Appomattox
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A Southern Boy in Blue
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Two Germans in the Civil War
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The Civil War Diaries of Cassie Fennell
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A Legacy of Valor
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Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton, Volume 1, 1857-1875
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Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen
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Correspondence of Major General Emory Upton, Volume 2, 1875-1881
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Dear Courier
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The Letters of General Richard S. Ewell
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Last to Leave the Field
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Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink
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The Union Must Stand
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Suffering in the Army of Tennessee
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Sanctified Trial
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The Folly and the Madness
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Miserable Little Conglomeration
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My Dearest Lilla
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New Fields of Adventure
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The Peninsula
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The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams
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Chickamauga Voices of the Civil War
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Shenandoah 1862
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As Wolves Upon a Sheep Fold
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The Civil War Memoir of a Boy from Baltimore
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Lee and Jackson's Bloody Twelfth
Richard N. Griffin is a retired U.S. Navy captain who lives in Alexandria, Virginia. George Perkins was his great-grandfather.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781572334557 |
| ISBN 10 | 157233455X |
| Title | Three Years a Soldier |
| Author | Richard Griffin |
| Series | Voices Of The Civil War |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Tennessee Press |
| Year published | 2006-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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