Book: All For The Union: The Civil War Diary And Letters Of Elisha Hunt Rhodes( Series - Vintage Civil War Library ) 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."
Details of Book: All For The Union: The Civil War Diary And Letters Of Elisha Hunt Rhodes( Series - Vintage Civil War Library ) Book: All For The Union: The Civil War Diary And Letters Of Elisha Hunt Rhodes( Series - Vintage Civil War Library )
Author: Robert Hunt Rhodes, Geoffrey C. Ward, Elisha Hunt Rhodes
ISBN: 0679738282
ISBN-13: 9780679738282
, 978-0679738282
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: 1992/07/01
Publisher: Vintage Books Usa
Number of Pages: 272
Language: English