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The folly and the madness : the Civil War letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry
- Title
- The folly and the madness : the Civil War letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry / edited by Thomas W. Cutrer.
- Author
- Palmer, Orlando S., 1839-1865
- Publication
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee, [2023]
- ©2023
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- Additional Authors
- Cutrer, Thomas W.
- Description
- 230 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1860, Orlando S. Palmer left his home in north Alabama to study law in Tennessee and the following year went into practice in Des Arc, Arkansas. With Arkansas's secession, Palmer joined what would become Company H of the First (later Fifteenth) Arkansas Infantry and soon became his company's captain and brigade's adjutant. As such, he was closely associated with William J. Hardee, Thomas C. Hindman, and Patrick R. Cleburne, the latter of whom he served from the day that the First Arkansas was organized until Palmer and Cleburne both sustained fatal wounds at the battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864. The letters, almost all of which are addressed to his sister, "Missie," are divided equally between military and social concerns. Cutrer argues these letters offer a clear and entertaining window into the life and times of a junior officer serving in the Army of Tennessee"--
- Series Statement
- Voices of the Civil War
- Uniform Title
- Voices of the Civil War series.
- Alternative Title
- Civil War letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry
- Subject
- Palmer, Orlando S., 1839-1865 > Correspondence
- Confederate States of America. Army. Arkansas Infantry Regiment, 15th. Company H
- Confederate States of America. Army. Arkansas Infantry Regiment, 15th
- Confederate States of America. Army
- 1861-1865
- Soldiers > Confederate States of America > Correspondence
- Regimental histories
- Military campaigns
- Soldiers
- Arkansas > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate
- Arkansas > History > Regimental histories. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > History > Campaigns. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Arkansas
- United States > Confederate States of America
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives – Confederate.
- Correspondence.
- Personal narratives.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
- Contents
- 1860 : "All Will Yet Blow Over" -- 1861 : "The Flower of the Chivalry of the South" -- 1862 : "We Can Whip Any Army They May Send Against Us" -- 1863 : "This Dark and Troublesome Time" -- 1864 : "Bone and Muscle Could Not Endure."
- Call Number
- JFE 24-1192
- ISBN
- 9781621908418
- 1621908410
- 9781621908425 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023031431
- OCLC
- 1390116636
- Author
- Palmer, Orlando S., 1839-1865, author.
- Title
- The folly and the madness : the Civil War letters of Captain Orlando S. Palmer, Fifteenth Arkansas Infantry / edited by Thomas W. Cutrer.
- Publisher
- Knoxville : The University of Tennessee, [2023]
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Voices of the Civil WarVoices of the Civil War series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1861-1865
- Added Author
- Cutrer, Thomas W., editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Palmer, Orlando S., 1839-1865 Folly and the madness. First edition Knoxville : The University of Tennessee, [2023] 9781621908425 (DLC) 2023031432
- Research Call Number
- JFE 24-1192