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Genre/Form: | Correspondence Personal narratives, Confederate Biography Biographies History Personal narratives Personal correspondence |
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Named Person: | John Preston Sheffey; John Preston Sheffey |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Preston Sheffey; James I Robertson, Jr. |
ISBN: | 0807130133 9780807130131 |
OCLC Number: | 55220407 |
Notes: | "Published in cooperation with the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies." |
Description: | viii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | War clouds and love showers -- En route to Carnifex Ferry -- Stalemate in northwestern Virginia -- Disappointments dampen patriotism -- Jenkins's raid -- Observations from camp -- Afflictions and substitutions -- Into the Shenandoah Valley -- Prison and peace. |
Responsibility: | edited by James I. Robertson, Jr. |
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Abstract:
More than a documentation of the horrors and banality of the Civil War, John Preston Sheffey's literate and even macabrely witty writings demonstrate his ardor for battle, his love of his home state of Virginia, and his passion in waging a most arduous and suspenseful campaign: to win Josephine Spiller of Wytheville, Virginia, as his wife.
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