A Confederate Yankee - The Journal of Edward William Drummond, a Confederate Soldier from Maine

"Brother against brother": this cliche of the Civil War experience is brought to life in A Confederate Yankee. Edward William Drummond served in the Confederate army while his brother Clark served for the Union. Yet these brothers came not from Kentucky, Maryland, or Missouri, border states where such conflicts were relatively common. Instead, Ned Drummond came from an abolitionist family in Maine. In 1859, at the age of twenty-one, Drummond moved to Savannah, Georgia, and married a local girl; he joined the local Confederate forces shortly after the war began. His journal follows his experiences as a commissary sergeant at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, prior to, during, and following the attack on that post in April 1862. After the fall of Fort Pulaski, he was imprisoned with other Southern troops--first at Governors Island in New York Harbor and later at Johnson's Island, Ohio, where captivity intensified his loyalty to the Confederacy. Later released in a prisoner-of-war exchange, he returned to Savannah, served in the Confederate army to the end of the war, and eventually reconciled with his Northern family members.

About the author

Roger S. Durham is director of the Army Heritage Museum at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He is the editor of The Blues in Gray: The Civil War Journal of William Daniel Dixon and the Republican Blues Daybook. His articles have appeared in Civil War Times Illustrated and Blue and Gray.

Product details

• Authors: Edward William Drummond, Roger S Durham, Roger S. Durham
• Assisted by: Peter S. Carmichael (Editor), Professor Peter S Carmichael (Editor), Roger S Durham (Editor), Roger S. Durham (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2004
• EAN: 9781572332768
• ISBN: 978-1-57233-276-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 311 mm x 248 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 463 g
• Series: Voices of the Civil War; Voices of the Civil War
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies