The Union Must Stand by Mark Grimsley
Only rarely does a Civil War diarist combine detailed observations of events with an intelligent understanding of their significance. John Campbell, a newspaperman before the war, left such a legacy. A politically aware Union soldier with strong moral and abolitionist beliefs, Campbell recorded not only his own reflections on wartime matters but also those of his comrades and the southerners—soldiers, civilians, and slaves—that he encountered.Campbell served in the Fifth Iowa Volunteer Infantry from 1861 to 1864. He participated in the war’s major theaters and saw early action at Island No. 10, Iuka, and Corinth. His diary is especially valuable because he viewed the war as both a field-commissioned officer able to make intelligent comments about combat and as a former enlisted man with a feel for the soldier’s life. He was present during Grant’s campaign at Vicksburg and depicted the bloody failure of the May 22 storming of Confederate fortifications in unsparing terms; he then went on to fight at Chattanooga and took Gen. William T. Sherman to task for his poor leadership at Missionary Ridge.
The Union Must Stand contains more than Campbell’s journal. Editors Mark Grimsley and Todd Miller have written an introduction that provides background information and places the diary in the context of current debate over the ideological commitments of Civil War soldiers. An appendix reproduces fifteen of Campbell’s letters to his hometown newspaper, in which he shared his impressions of both war and slavery.
With its unique point of view, valuable insights into the conduct of various campaigns, and some of the most vivid depictions of Civil War combat ever set to paper, Campbell’s diary offers both a wealth of new primary material for historians and exciting reading for enthusiasts. Combining a journalist’s accuracy with a zealot’s idealism, it makes a forceful statement about why one man went to war.
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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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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
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Three Years a Soldier
Mark Grimsley is an associate professor of history at the Ohio State University and the author of The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward Southern Civilians, 1861-1865. Todd D. Miller is a history teacher and an independent researcher for Time-Life Books’ Civil War series. He lives in Ashland, Ohio.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781621903086 |
| ISBN 10 | 1621903087 |
| Title | The Union Must Stand |
| Author | Mark Grimsley |
| Series | Voices Of The Civil War |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Tennessee Press |
| Year published | 2017-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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