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A gripping, comprehensive account of the Civil War, including eyewitness testimony, profiles of key personalities, period photographs, illustrations and artifacts, and detailed battle maps. Fully researched, superbly written.Tags
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James I. Robertson Jr. is currently the Alumni Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Tenting Tonight: The Soldier's Life
- Original publication date
- 1984 (copyright) (copyright)
- People/Characters
- Richard Ackerman; Louisa May Alcott; Charles Allison; Robert Anderson; Enoch T. Baker; Francis Channing Barlow (show all 166); Joseph K. Barnes; Henry Barnum; Clara Barton; John Beatty; Mary Bell; Mollie Bell; John D. Billings; Edward Black; William Blackford; Chaplain Blemill; James G. Blunt; Allen Brady; George K. Brady; Braxton Bragg; William Brooks; Rice C. Bull; Thomas E. Caffey; Albert Cashier; R. B. Chaffin; Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain; Frances Clalin; Patrick Ronayne Cleburne; A. S. Clyne; William Collins; James Austin Connolly; Alonzo Cooper; Elbridge Copp; Samuel A. Craig; Samuel Croft; Edward Cross; Billy Crump; Kate Cumming; George Armstrong Custer; Alfred Davenport; Hugh Wythe Davis; Jefferson Davis; John William De Forest; Frederic Denison; Régis de Trobriand; Henry Dikeman; Dorothea Dix; Henry Kyd Douglas; Frederick Douglass; Michael Dresbach; Alfred N. A. Duffié (as Alfred Napoleon Duffié); Jubal A. Early; Richard Eddy; Sara Edmonds; George Eggleston; George Elliot; Benjamin F. Falls; John B. Floyd; Nathan Bedford Forrest; Arthur B. Fuller; Ulysses S. Grant (mentioned); John L. Gray; R. E. Guthrie; John Hagan; Andrew G. Hamilton; Isaac Handy; Roger W. Hanson; William J. Hardee; Luther Hardy; Rutherford B. Hayes; F. Y. Hedley; George Hegeman; Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Charles W. Hill; Daniel Harvey Hill (as Daniel H. Hill); Harrison C. Hobart; Jennie Hodgers; William Hoffman; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.; Winslow Homer; McHenry Howard; Julia Ward Howe; Victor Hugo (mentioned); Alexander Hunter; Jacob E. Hyneman; Andrew Jackson (mentioned); Stonewall Jackson; Lemuel Jeffries; Joseph Jones; Curtis King; Edward Latham; Abraham Lincoln; Thomas Livermore; Theodore Lyman; Carlton McCarthy; George B. McClellan; Frank McElhenny; John McElroy; James McIntosh; James McMahon; Vannoy H. Manning; George Maret; Thomas Meagher; Montgomery Meigs (as Montgomery C. Meigs); Thomas H. Mooney; John Hunt Morgan; Oliver Norton; William Oatley; John T. Omenhausser; Richard Owen; Phoebe Yates Pember; John C. Pemberton; George E. Pickett; John Pickle; Camille Armand Jules Marie Polignac; E. Pollard; John Pope (as John Q. Pope); Richard Puffer; Adam Radar; William C. Raulston; F. L. O. Roehrig; Nathaniel Rollins; George Root; Thomas E. Rose; John M. Schofield; Carl Schurz; Walter Scott (mentioned); James Seddon; William Shakespeare (mentioned); William Ludwell Sheppard; Henry H. Sibley; Daniel E. Sickles (as Daniel Sickles); Franz Sigel; Philip Smith; Robert C. Smith; Truman Smith; Edwin M. Stanton; George Stevens; Joel S. Stevens; Joseph Clay Stiles; Leander Stilwell; Abel D. Streight; Frank Thompson; Sally Tompkins; George A. Townsend; John Trice; Richard Turner; David Van Buskirk; Werner Von Bachelle; James Waddell; George Washington; William Watson; Henry H. Waugh; Walt Whitman; William E. Wiatt; Frank Wilkeson; Orlando B. Willcox; L. J. Williams; Peter Wilson; John H. Winder; Henry Wirz; Thomas Witherspoon; Abraham Wolf; John Worsham; W. Wrightman
- Important places
- Alabama, USA; Alexandria, Virginia, USA; Andersonville Prison, Macon County, Georgia, USA (as Andersonville prison camp); Annapolis, Maryland, USA; Aquia Creek, Virginia, USA; Arlington, Virginia, USA (show all 73); Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Augusta, Georgia, USA; Belle Isle, Virginia, USA (prison camp); Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Cairo, Illinois, USA; Camp Chase, Ohio, USA; Camp Defiance, Illinois, USA; Camp Douglas, Illinois, USA; Camp Morton, Indiana, USA; Camp Quantico, Virginia, USA; Castle Pinckney, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Charleston, South Carolina, USA; Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Chicago, Illinois, USA; Chillicothe, Ohio, USA; Chimborazo Hospital, Virginia, USA; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; City Point, Virginia, USA; Colorado, USA; Connecticut, USA; Cox's Landing, Virginia, USA; Culpeper Court House, Culpeper, Virginia, USA; Elmira, New York, USA; Elmira Prison, Elmira, New York, USA; Falls Church, Virginia, USA; Fort Delaware, Delaware, USA; Fort Donelson, Tennessee, USA; Fort Pillow, Tennessee, USA; Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, USA; Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA; Georgia Landing, Louisiana, USA; Germantown, Virginia, USA; Harewood Hospital, Washington, D.C., USA; Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, USA; Helena, Arkansas, USA; Oklahoma Indian Territory, USA; Iowa, USA; Johnson's Island, Ohio, USA; Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, USA; Macon County, Georgia, USA; Manassas, Virginia, USA; Manchester, Tennessee, USA; Mexico; Miner's Hill, Virginia, USA; Nashville, Tennessee, USA; New Mexico, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA; New York, New York, USA; Niagara, Pennsylvania, USA; Ohio State Penitentiary, Youngstown, Ohio, USA; Pensacola, Florida, USA; Petersburg, Virginia, USA; Point Lookout, Maryland, USA; Poison Spring, Arkansas, USA; Pope's Run, Virginia, USA; Richmond, Virginia, USA; Salem Church, Virginia, USA; Saltville, Virginia, USA; Sandusky, Ohio, USA; Sangster's Station, Virginia, USA; Savage's Station, Virginia, USA; Savannah, Georgia, USA; Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA; Stono River, South Carolina, USA; Warrenton, Virginia, USA; Dalton, Georgia, USA; Douglas Hospital, Washington, D.C., USA
- Important events
- War of 1812 (1812 | 1815); American Civil War (1861 | 1865); First Battle of Bull Run (1861-07-21); Battle of Wilson's Creek (1861-08-10); Battle of Ball's Bluff (1861-10-21 | 1861-10-22); Battle of Shiloh (1862-04-06 | 1862-04-07) (show all 22); Capture of New Orleans (1862-04-25 | 1862-05-01); Seven Days' Battles (1862-06-25 | 1862-07-01); Battle of Gaines' Mill (1862-06-27); Battle of Cedar Mountain (1862-08-09); Second Battle of Bull Run (1862-08-28 | 1862-08-30); Battle of Chickamauga (1863-09-19 | 1863-09-20); Battle of Prairie Grove (1862-12-07); Battle of Fredericksburg (1862-12-13); Vicksburg Campaign (1862-12-26 | 1863-07-04); Battle of Stones River (1862-12-31 | 1863-01-02); Battle of Gettysburg (1863-07-01 | 1863-07-03); Battle of Honey Springs (1863-07-17); Overland Campaign (1864-05 | 1864-06); Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (1864-05); Battle of Jonesboro (1864-08-31 | 1864-09-01); Battle of Nashville (1864-12-15 | 1864-12-16)
- First words
- When the Civil War erupted and the call for volunteers was sounded across the land, the respondents on both sides harbored a "fancy idea," as Confederate artilleryman Carlton McCarthy put it, "that the principal occupation of... (show all) a soldier should be actual conflict with the enemy."
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)However much credit and glory might be given to the leaders in this War, Bragg felt assured that "history will yet reward the main honor where it is due - to the private soldier."
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