John Dooley's Civil War : an Irish American's Journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment.

Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequent...

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Main Author: Curran, Robert Emmett
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011.
Series:Voices of the Civil War.
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Summary:Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley's vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett's Charge and subsequently captured. As it happens, the 1945 edition is actually a much-truncated version of Dooley's original journal that fails to capture th.
Physical Description:1 online resource (551 pages)
ISBN:9781572338302
157233830X
1280125047
9781280125041
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.