I Rode with Stonewall - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807803375 ISBN 13: 9780807803370

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1940

Synopsis

Stonewall Jackson depended on him; General Lee complimented him; Union soldiers admired him; and women in Maryland, Virginia, and even Pennsylvania adored him: Henry Kyd Douglas. During and shortly after the Civil War Douglas set down his experiences of great men and great days. In resonant prose, he wrote simply and intimately, covering the full emotional spectrum of a soldier's life. Here is one of the finest and most remarkable stories to come out of any war, written wholly firsthand from notes and diaries made on the battlefield. |Here is one of the finest and most remarkable stories to come out of any war, written wholly firsthand from notes and diaries made on the battlefield. Henry Kyd Douglas was depended upon by Stonewall Jackson, admired by Union soldiers, and adored by women in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. During and shortly after the Civil War Douglas set down his experiences of great men and great days in a resonant prose almost unique among soldiers and rare among writers.

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Review

A fortunate addition to the works on the Confederacy's loved general, and a particularly readable and invigorating picture of the times . . . a colorful account, full of the youngness, the rawness, and the bravery of the Southern army. . . . He has written as he lived and fought, earnestly, actively; and with an honest brand of romanticism.--Malcolm Bell, Jr., in The Savannah News I have read many novels about the war between the states, and some histories; never that I can recall, have I read any narrative that gave me a keener sense of what it was like, day by day, in the army than does Henry Kyd Douglas's I Rode with Stonewall.--Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune A new mine of information about the immortal Stonewall. . . . The most interesting memoir of the Confederacy that has come out in a long time.--H. J. Eckenrode in The Richmond Times-Dispatch A thrilling story of the War of the Sixties.--Carroll Dulaney in The Baltimore News Post There are no heroics and unreconstructed-rebel sighs in the book; it is a simple and vivid record of day-by-day events. . . . For those who like to read about the war as it was instead of as it might have been, Douglas, born a hundred years ago this year, is this year's man.--Ralph Thompson in The New York Times . . . deserved to see the light long ago.--The Nation . . . more interested in the human side of the war than the technical or military. . . . Indeed, Colonel Douglas strikes a modern note in his handling of his story. He focuses on the humor and pathos with a telling that would equal the camp fire candor of army life today. From John Brown's raid to the trial of Mary E. Surratt, it is a story of tender emotions, gallant riders, dashing young officers and their loyal soldiers.--Thomas Ripley in The Atlanta Journal

About the Author

The youngest member of Stonewall Jackson's staff during the Civil War, Henry Kyd Douglas later became a prominent figure in legal, political, and military circles of Maryland. He died in 1903.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1940
• ISBN 10: 0807803375
• ISBN 13: 9780807803370
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 414
• Editor: Green Fletcher M.