A Volunteer in the Regular Army - The Civil War Journal and Memoir of Gilbert Thompson, U.s. Army

"At the outbreak of the war, Gilbert Thompson joined the regular army and was assigned to the engineer battalion. He began writing a journal of his service. After the war, Thompson took his three wartime journals and interleaved them into a single volume, adding some of his postwar reflections along the way. Thus, the text he left to posterity is both journal and memoir, and he maintains a clear delineation between these two perspectives throughout. Thompson was also an accomplished artist and topographer, and his sketches from the field add a unique visual narrative to this book. His service, including activity at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Petersburg, extended well into 1864"--

About the author

MARK A. SMITH, professor of history at Fort Valley State University, is the author of Engineering Security: The Corps of Engineers and Third System Defense Policy, 1815-1861.

Product details

• Authors: Mark A Smith, Mark A. Smith, Mark A. (EDT) Smith
• Assisted by: Mark A. Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Univeristy of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781621905592
• ISBN: 978-1-62190-559-2
• Series: Voices of the Civil War
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, History - Military / War, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)