A Southern Soldier's Letters Home: The Civil War Letters of Samuel Burney, Cobb's Georgia Legion, Army of Northern Virginia

Burney, Samuel A.; Turner, Nat S.; Shepherd, Sarah Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0865548161 / ISBN 13: 9780865548169

Published by Mercer Univ Pr, Macon, GA, 2003

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New/New. No noticeable defects. Signed and dated by Nat S. Turner.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Southern Soldier's Letters Home: The Civil War Letters of Samuel Burney, Cobb's Georgia Legion, Army of Northern Virginia
• Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr, Macon, GA
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865548161
• ISBN 13: 9780865548169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Samuel A. Burney, born in April 1840, was the son of Thomas Jefferson Burney and Julia Shields Burney. He graduated from Mercer University (then at Penfield, Georgia) in 1860. He joined the Panola Guards, an infantry component of Thomas R. R. Cobb's Georgia Legion, in July 1861. For the next four years he served in the Army of Northern Virginia both in Virginia and in Tennessee. Burney was wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and as a result of his wound he was placed in disability in March 1864 and served the remainder of the war on commissary duty in southwest Georgia. After the war, Burney returned to Mercer's school of theology, was ordained into the Baptist ministry, and served as pastor of several churches in Morgan County. He was pastor of the Madison Baptist Church until shortly before his death in 1896. These letters of a college graduate written to his wife, Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd Burney are lyrical and beautifully written. Burney describes battles, camp life, theology, and the day-to-day dreariness of life in the army. This is an astounding collection of letters for anyone interested in the Civil War, or the South.