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Hell's Broke Loose In Georgia by Scott Walker SIGNED ***
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Features
- Signed
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Georgia
- Subject
- United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- ISBN
- 9780820326054
- Subject Area
- History
- Publication Name
- Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia : Survival in a Civil War Regiment
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Weight
- 22.1 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820326054
ISBN-13
9780820326054
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44185463
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia : Survival in a Civil War Regiment
Subject
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.1 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2005-008517
Reviews
"Amidst the fog enveloping the vast array of literature on the American Civil War, much of it mundane and redundant, emerges a real jewel of a book. For in Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia, author Scott Walker breaks free from the usual litany of battles, campaigns, and troop movements and serves up an engaging, tightly woven, account of what the participants felt during the campaigns, rather than how they fought." -- Georgia Historical Quarterly, "Scott Walker has produced history that is at the same time very old and quite new. He relies upon a rich trove of letters and diaries to focus his narrative upon the coming-of-age experiences and vivid observations of men and boys who served in the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry Regiment. Walker also offers a species of the 'new' military history-a drama set in blood and mud instead of command posts in which common soldiers instead of generals are the principal characters. This is an excellent book."--Emory M. Thomas, author ofRobert E. LeeandThe Confederate Nation, "Walker's book is both a labor of love and an excellent insight into the true nature of military life during the Civil War."-- North & South, "Diligent use of manuscript letters makes this [book] a sturdy soldiers' chronicle ably set in Western Theater history."--Blue and Gray, "Walker uses this disastrous defeat to criticize the Confederate high command, something he does with stylish effectiveness throughout the book as Southern forces in the West stagger from one debacle to another . . . But Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia isn't unique because it points out the shortcomings of Hood, Braxton Bragg and Jefferson Davis. It's Walker's passion for his subject, combined with the remarkable correspondence from Confederates to their families, that gives this unit portrait such bold color."-- Savannah Morning News, "A beautifully written narrative . . . Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia stands as a heartfelt recounting of one regiment's triumphs and traumas."-- Journal of American History, Civil War regimental histories are thick on the ground now, but Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia is a different sort of creature, a penetrating look at the inner world and lives of men who marched, ate, slept, fought, and died together. Not so much a unit history as a 'family' portrait of men bound by the war, Scott Walker's book offers a glimpse of the personality and inner world of almost all Civil War units, North and South alike. This is the part of regimental history that too many regimental historians overlook."--William C. Davis, author of Look Away! and Jefferson Davis, "Amidst the fog enveloping the vast array of lit erature on the American Civil War, much of it mun dane and redundant, emerges a real jewel of a book. For in Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia, author Scott Walker breaks free from the usual litany of battles, campaigns, and troop movements and serves up an engaging, tightly woven, account of what the participants felt during the campaigns, rather than how they fought." - Georgia Historical Quarterly, "The letters, diaries, and other information Scott Walker located and utilized on the soldiers and families of the 57th Georgia infantry are among the finest I've ever encountered. He has done complete justice to these superb primary sources by writing a narrative that is richly descriptive yet focused and restrained. Walker allows the soldiers and their families to speak for themselves while placing their words and deeds in a clear and meaningful context."--T. Michael Parrish, author ofRichard Taylorand editor ofBrothers In Gray, This book is not about glorious victory or honorable defeat; it is about the struggle of men to hold on to their humanity in war's fiery furnace of inhumanity. This is a book about hell-hell with a few humorous anecdotes, hell with unexpected acts of kindness, but hell."-- Southern Distinction, "Walker's book is both a labor of love and an excellent insight into the true nature of military life during the Civil War."--North & South, "This book is not about glorious victory or honorable defeat; it is about the struggle of men to hold on to their humanity in war's fiery furnace of inhumanity. This is a book about hell-hell with a few humorous anecdotes, hell with unexpected acts of kindness, but hell."-- Southern Distinction, "Diligent use of manuscript letters makes this [book] a sturdy soldiers' chronicle ably set in Western Theater history."-- Blue and Gray, "Civil War regimental histories are thick on the ground now, but Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia is a different sort of creature, a penetrating look at the inner world and lives of men who marched, ate, slept, fought, and died together. Not so much a unit history as a 'family' portrait of men bound by the war, Scott Walker's book offers a glimpse of the personality and inner world of almost all Civil War units, North and South alike. This is the part of regimental history that too many regimental historians overlook."--William C. Davis, author of Look Away! and Jefferson Davis, "The letters, diaries, and other information Scott Walker located and utilized on the soldiers and families of the 57th Georgia infantry are among the finest I've ever encountered. He has done complete justice to these superb primary sources by writing a narrative that is richly descriptive yet focused and restrained. Walker allows the soldiers and their families to speak for themselves while placing their words and deeds in a clear and meaningful context."--T. Michael Parrish, author of Richard Taylor and editor of Brothers In Gray, "Walker uses this disastrous defeat to criticize the Confederate high command, something he does with stylish effectiveness throughout the book as Southern forces in the West stagger from one debacle to another . . . ButHell's Broke Loose in Georgiaisn't unique because it points out the shortcomings of Hood, Braxton Bragg and Jefferson Davis. It's Walker's passion for his subject, combined with the remarkable correspondence from Confederates to their families, that gives this unit portrait such bold color."--Savannah Morning News, "A beautifully written narrative . . .Hell's Broke Loose in Georgiastands as a heartfelt recounting of one regiment's triumphs and traumas."--Journal of American History, "This book is not about glorious victory or honorable defeat; it is about the struggle of men to hold on to their humanity in war's fiery furnace of inhumanity. This is a book about hell-hell with a few humorous anecdotes, hell with unexpected acts of kindness, but hell."--Southern Distinction, "Civil War regimental histories are thick on the ground now, butHell's Broke Loose in Georgiais a different sort of creature, a penetrating look at the inner world and lives of men who marched, ate, slept, fought, and died together. Not so much a unit history as a 'family' portrait of men bound by the war, Scott Walker's book offers a glimpse of the personality and inner world of almost all Civil War units, North and South alike. This is the part of regimental history that too many regimental historians overlook."--William C. Davis, author ofLook Away!andJefferson Davis, "Amidst the fog enveloping the vast array of literature on the American Civil War, much of it mundane and redundant, emerges a real jewel of a book. For in Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia, author Scott Walker breaks free from the usual litany of battles, campaigns, and troop movements and serves up an engaging, tightly woven, account of what the participants felt during the campaigns, rather than how they fought." - Georgia Historical Quarterly
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
973.7/458
Synopsis
A regimental history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia infantry that reveals soldier's inner struggles and longings., This is a history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry, a unit of the famed Mercer's Brigade. More than just an account of their military engagements, this is a collective biography of a close-knit group. Relatives and neighbours served and died side by side and it shows how family ties and friendships played out in wartime settings., Darling, I never wanted to gow home as bad in my life as I doo now and if they don't give mee a furlow I am going any how. Written in December 1862 by Private Wright Vinson in Tennessee to his wife, Christiana, in Georgia, these lines go to the heart of why Scott Walker wrote this history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry, a unit of the famed Mercer's Brigade. All but a few members of the Fifty-seventh lived within a close radius of eighty miles from each other. More than just an account of their military engagements, this is a collective biography of a close-knit group. Relatives and neighbors served and died side by side in the Fifty-seventh, and Walker excels at showing how family ties, friendships, and other intimate dynamics played out in wartime settings. Humane but not sentimental, the history abounds in episodes of real feeling: a starving soldier's theft of a pie; another's open confession, in a letter to his wife, that he may desert; a slave's travails as a camp orderly. Drawing on memoirs and a trove of unpublished letters and diaries, Walker follows the soldiers of the Fifty-seventh as they push far into Unionist Kentucky, starve at the siege of Vicksburg, guard Union prisoners at the Andersonville stockade, defend Atlanta from Sherman, and more. Hardened fighters who would wish hell on an incompetent superior but break down at the sight of a dying Yankee, these are real people, as rarely seen in other Civil War histories., Darling, I never wanted to gow home as bad in my life as I doo now and if they don't give mee a furlow I am going any how. Written in December 1862 by Private Wright Vinson in Tennessee to his wife, Christiana, in Georgia, these lines go to the heart of why Scott Walker wrote this history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry, a unit of the famed Mercer's Brigade. All but a few members of the Fifty-seventh lived within a close radius of eighty miles from each other. More than just an account of their military engagements, this is a collective biography of a close-knit group. Relatives and neighbors served and died side by side in the Fifty-seventh, and Walker excels at showing how family ties, friendships, and other intimate dynamics played out in wartime settings. Humane but not sentimental, the history abounds in episodes of real feeling: a starving soldier's theft of a pie; another's open confession, in a letter to his wife, that he may desert; a slave's travails as a camp orderly. follows the soldiers of the Fifty-seventh as they push far into Unionist Kentucky, starve at the siege of Vicksburg, guard Union prisoners at the Andersonville stockade, defend Atlanta from Sherman, and more. Hardened fighters who would wish hell on an incompetent superior but break down at the sight of a dying Yankee, these are real people, as rarely seen in other Civil War histories.
LC Classification Number
E559.5 57th.W35 2005
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