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"Death does seem to have all he can attend to" : the Civil War diary of an Andersonville survivor
- Title
- "Death does seem to have all he can attend to" : the Civil War diary of an Andersonville survivor / George A. Hitchcock ; edited by Ronald G. Watson ; foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.
- Author
- Hitchcock, George A., 1844-1915
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Watson, Ronald G., 1941-
- Description
- x, 246 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "On August 7, 1862, George Alfred Hitchcock (born in Massachusetts in 1844) left home looking forward to a reunion with his older brother, Henry Sparhawk Hitchcock, and membership in Company A, 21st Massachusetts Infantry. From this date until January 1, 1865, Hitchcock kept a meticulous record of his daily activities in pocket diaries"--
- Alternative Title
- Death does seem to have all he can attend to
- Civil War diary of an Andersonville survivor
- Subjects
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns
- United States > Army > Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 21st (1861-1864)
- Andersonville Prison Biography
- Soldiers > Massachusetts > Ashby > Diaries
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Prisoners and prisons
- Massachusetts > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- Ashby (Mass.) > Biography
- Hitchcock, George A., 1844-1915 > Diaries
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- Fitchburg (Mass.) > Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.
- Contents
- Apprenticeship to Uncle Sam -- The Maryland Campaign -- The Fredericksburg Campaign -- Winter at Falmouth -- Removal to Newport News -- Transfer to the Department of the Ohio -- Spring and Summer in Eastern Kentucky -- The East Tennessee Campaign -- Winter in the mountains -- Hospital life -- Grant's campaign -- Captured at Cold Harbor -- Prisoner of war -- Andersonville, Georgia -- Camp Lawton-Millen, Georgia -- Florence, South Carolina -- Release -- Hitchcock's commentary in 1890 on Union prisoners of war -- Hitchcock after the war.
- Call Number
- IKL 14-2497
- ISBN
- 9780786478903 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 078647890X (softcover : alk. paper)
- 9781476614007 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014001054
- OCLC
- 853310508
- Author
- Hitchcock, George A., 1844-1915, author.
- Title
- "Death does seem to have all he can attend to" : the Civil War diary of an Andersonville survivor / George A. Hitchcock ; edited by Ronald G. Watson ; foreword by Edwin C. Bearss.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240) and index.
- Added Author
- Watson, Ronald G., 1941- editor.
- Research Call Number
- IKL 14-2497