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From Ashby to Andersonville : the Civil War diary and reminiscences of George A. Hitchcock, private, Company A, 21st Massachusetts Regiment : August 1862-January 1865 / edited by Ronald G. Watson.

Title
From Ashby to Andersonville : the Civil War diary and reminiscences of George A. Hitchcock, private, Company A, 21st Massachusetts Regiment : August 1862-January 1865 / edited by Ronald G. Watson.
Author
Hitchcock, George A.
Publication
Campbell, Calif. : Savas Pub. Co., c1997.

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Watson, Ronald G.
Description
xv, 381 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
  • Private George Hitchcock's From Ashby to Andersonville is a remarkable soldier's epic of the American Civil War. Unlike most accounts penned by enlisted men, which usually cover only a brief timespan in a small geographic area, Hitchcock's writings encompass a broad spectum of experiences across several theaters of war, including his hellish months as a prisoner of war. Despite the hardships and death that make up the daily routine in Andersonville, Hitchcock's account of his months there is remarkably free of vitriol and refreshingly objective in its assessments of his Southern jailers. The sweep of General William T. Sherman's armies deep into Georgia forced the transfer of thousands of Federal captives, including Hitchcock, to other prisons. Hitchcock ended up in Millen's Camp Lawton, and eventually Florence, South Carolina, two little-known prisons about which the Massachusetts native had much to say. - Jacket flap.
  • This remarkable journal of an enlisted Federal soldier provides an abundance of fresh information on camp life, battles, picket duty, skirmishing and, ultimately, life in a Confederate prison. It includes descriptions of service with the IX Army Corps.
Subject
  • Hitchcock, George A. > Diaries
  • United States. Company A
  • Soldiers > Massachusetts > Diaries
  • United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
  • Massachusetts > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-366) and index.
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  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Edwin C. Bearss -- Editor's preface -- George A. Hitchcock's introduction, 1890 -- Apprenticeship to Uncle Sam -- Maryland campaign -- Fredericksburg campaign -- Winter at Falmouth -- Removal to Newport News -- Transfer to the Department of the Ohio -- Spring and summer in eastern Kentucky -- East Tennessee campaign -- Winter in the mountains -- Hospital life -- Grant's campaign -- Captured at Cold Harbor -- Prisoner of war -- Andersonville, Georgia -- Millen, Georgia -- Florence, South Carolina -- Release -- Commentary on Union prisoners -- Appendixes. Historical supplement -- "From Ashby to Andersonville" -- Incident at Columbus RR Depot (3/30/1863) -- Union soldiers in Hitchcock's diary.
ISBN
188281018X
OCLC
37830328
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library