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"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.
- 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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | E513.5 21st .H58 2014 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Watson, Ronald G., 1941-
- Description
- x, 246 pages : illustrations, map; 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
- Civil War diary of an Andersonville survivor
- Subject
- Hitchcock, George A
- Hitchcock, George A., 1844-1915 > Diaries
- Andersonville Prison
- United States. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 21st (1861-1864)
- Andersonville Prison > Biography
- 1861-1865
- Prisoners of War
- Military Personnel
- American Civil War
- Soldiers > Ashby > Diaries
- Massachusetts
- United States
- Massachusetts > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives
- United States > Prisoners and prisons > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > Campaigns > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Ashby (Mass.) > Biography
- Fitchburg (Mass.) > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Personal Narrative
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780786478903 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 078647890X (softcover : alk. paper)
- 9781476614007 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014001054
- OCLC
- 853310508
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library