Richard Barksdale Harwell (1915–1988)
Author of The Confederate Reader: How the South Saw the War
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Works by Richard Barksdale Harwell
Washington: An abridgement in one volume by Richard Harwell of the seven-volume George Washington by Douglas Southall… (1968) 28 copies
In tall cotton: The 200 most important Confederate books for the reader, researcher, and collector (Contributions to… (1978) 12 copies
Proceedings of the County Committees, 1774-1776, the Committees of Safety of Westmoreland and Fincastle (1956) 6 copies
Confederate belles-lettres: A bibliography and a finding list of the fiction, poetry, drama, songsters, and… (1977) 4 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1915-06-06
- Date of death
- 1988-03-09
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Washington, Georgia, USA
- Place of death
- Augusta, Georgia, USA
- Education
- Emory University
- Occupations
- librarian
bibliographer
historian
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We get journal entries from Union soldiers in far flung theaters of war like New Mexico, but we are also taken inside Fort Sumter at the very beginning of the war, a diary entry of a woman watching the soldiers of both sides rush back and forth through the streets of her hometown, Gettysburg, first-hand accounts of major engagements like the Battle of Shiloh, letters and telegrams back and forth from an increasingly exasperated Lincoln to his generals during the early years of the conflict. There are accounts of life inside prisoner of war camps and a description of life in New Orleans during the Federal occupation.
Editor Richard B. Harwell (1915-1988) was a prominent enough Civil War historian (especially regarding the Confederacy) that the Atlanta Civil War Round Table now confers the Harwell Book Award for the best book on a Civil War subject published in the preceding year: http://www.civilwarroundtableofatlanta.org/Harwell-Bio.htm
The Union Reader was published in 1958. My copy is a first edition hardback.… (more)