Research Catalog

Title

John Dooley's Civil War : an Irish American's journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment / edited by Robert Emmett Curran.

Author

Dooley, John, 1842-1873.

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

Curran, Robert Emmett.

Description

xxxi, 516 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"John Dooley's Civil War gives us ... a comprehensive version of Dooley's 'war notes', which editor Robert Curran has reassembled from seven different manuscripts ... The notes were created as diaries that recorded Dooley's service as an officer in the famed First Virginia Regiment along with twenty months as a prisoner of war ... In addition to the war notes, the book includes a prewar essay that Dooley wrote in defense of secession and an extended poem he penned in 1870 on what he perceived as the evils of Reconstruction"--Jacket.

Series Statement

Voices of the Civil War

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Voices of the Civil War series

Subject

• Dooley, John, 1842-1873
• Confederate States of America. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 1st
• Johnson Island Prison > Biography
• 1861 - 1865
• Soldiers > Confederate States of America > Biography
• Irish American soldiers > Confederate States of America > Biography
• Prisoners of war > Johnson Island > Biography
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate
• Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate
• United States > Prisoners and prisons > Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives – Confederate
• Autobiographies
• Personal narratives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Secession. A few words upon the right of a state to withdraw from the United States -- pt. 2. War. Introduction to John Dooley's "war notes" -- "Oh how scared I felt!" : the Second Manassas Campaign, August 1862 -- "Oh, how I ran!" : the Maryland Campaign, September 1862 -- "Resting from our labors" : camp in the Shenandoah Valley, September-November 1862 -- "These brave but doomed foreigners" : Fredericksburg, December 1862 -- "Everything is excessively dull" : winter quarters, December 1862-March 1863 -- "We slept in the trenches" : coastal Carolina and southeastern Virginia, March-June 1863 -- "Into the very jaws of destruction" : the Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 -- "Vae victis" : prisoner, July 1863 -- "Still hoping for better things" : Fort McHenry, July-August 1863 -- "This selfish, cold hearted, cold blooded enemy" : Johnson's Island, August-November 1863 -- "Learning how little food ... a man may live upon" : Johnson's Island, November 1863-March 1864 -- "Anxiety about Virginia affairs" : Johnson's Island, March-July 1864 -- "The bad news is raging" : Johnson's Island, Just-November 1864 -- "I am among the number ... Glory, Alleluia" : from Johnson's Island to Richmond, December 1864-March 1865 -- "All is confusion and panic" : in search of the CSA, March-April 1865 -- "A bitter, bitter draught" : journey's end, April-May 1865 -- pt. 3. Reconstruction. Lines addressed to the bronze statute of the Goddess of Liberty which covers the Capitol Dome, Washington, D.C.

ISBN

• 9781572338227 (hardcover)
• 1572338229 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2011021570

OCLC

• 728892113
• SCSB-12144230

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library