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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : McNeill, Alexander (1832-1889)
Titre(s) : The Civil War letters of Alexander McNeill [Texte imprimé] : 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment / edited by Mac Wyckoff ; transcribed by Cora Lee Godsey Starling
Publication : Columbia : The University of South Carolina Press, copyright [2016]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxiv, 672 pages) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 659-660) and index
During the American Civil War, Alexander "Sandy" McNeill, a southern merchant, served
in the Secession Guards, Company F, and Second South Carolina Regiment from April
17, 1861, to May 2, 1865. Within three weeks after the war began at Fort Sumter, McNeill
wrote his first epistle to his long-time friend, Almirah Haseltine "Tinie" Simmons,
in a campaign to win her heart and hand in marriage. The 29-year-old McNeill proclaimed
in that letter, "I have always esteemed you as a friend and now I feel stealing over
me a feeling which tells me that you are now held in higher estimation than that of
a friend." Civil War historian and documentary editor Mac Wyckoff adds context to
the correspondence, more than two hundred letters that encompass the entire duration
of the war. With the exception of three breaks in communication, McNeill wrote to
Tinie four to five times a week and persisted to the last week of April 1865, more
than two weeks after General Robert E. Lee had surrendered at Appomattox Court House,
Virginia. In general, letters written during the final six months of the war are hard
to find as are many other primary source materials for the waning war. While this
is among the largest and fullest Civil War collections, it is the literary quality
of McNeill<U+2019>s letters and wide variety of topics reported that distinguish it
from others. In frequent and lengthy missives, McNeill opened his heart and mind to
Tinie, his fiancée and then wife. He fulsomely reported his experiences and thoughts
on a soldier<U+2019>s life during this war, describing combat, camp life, the building
of winter quarters, the marches, company election of officers, weather, food, and
morale. McNeill chronicled his experiences at First Manassas (Bull Run), Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, and other battles. A man of sophisticated
opinions, McNeill voiced his personal views on political, religious and military events,
and the names of fellow soldiers he liked and disliked<U+2015>all illuminating his
deep, dynamic character
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Wyckoff, Mac (1948-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Caroline du Sud (États-Unis) -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry Regiment (02)
Genre ou forme : Correspondance
Récits personnels américains
Indice(s) Dewey :
973.7 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - 1861-1865
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781611175363. - ISBN 1611175364. - ISBN 9781611175370 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb473355454
Notice n° :
FRBNF47335545
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : McNeill goes to war ; The 2nd South Carolina moves to the front ; The picket war
; Broken and mended engagement ; Return to the army ; The Fredericksburg campaign
; The winter of 1862-63 ; The Chancellorsville campaign ; The Gettysburg campaign
; The Chickamauga campaign ; The East Tennessee campaign ; The Overland campaign
; The Shenandoah campaign ; Return to Richmond ; The Carolinas campaign.
