All For The Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
by Elisha Hunt Rhodes
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Author: Elisha Hunt RhodesEditor: Robert Hunt Rhodes
Foreword: Geoffrey C. Ward
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-03-13
ISBN: 0517584271
Number of pages: 255
Publisher: Orion Books, a Division of Crown Publishers
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Book Review: One of the best
Summary: 5 Stars
I have an extensive Civil War Library,and, once in a while, read a book that stands out alone. I postponed things I needed to do in order to finish this as close to one setting as possible.Elisha Hunt Rhodes was a 'soldier's soldier, and a patriot's patriot. His diary will take you through the hum drum of camp life and the heat of battle. It takes you through the good times as well as the bad times. Your emotions will swing with his. Through all, Rhodes was "All for the Union."
As I finished this book, I realized this must be the best eye witness account ever written.
Summary of All For The Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."Historical Books
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