Research Catalog

Title

Rebel private, front and rear : memoirs of a Confederate soldier / by William A. Fletcher ; introduction by Richard Wheeler ; afterword by Vallie Fletcher Taylor.

Author

Fletcher, W. A. (William Andrew), 1839-

Publication

New York : Dutton, ©1995.

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Details

Description

xv, 223 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The memoir of Private William Fletcher of Texas, who served in the Confederate Army under Stonewall Jackson.

Alternative Title

Memoirs of a Confederate soldier

Subject

• Fletcher, W. A. 1839-
• Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 5th > Biography
• Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 5th
• 1861-1865
• Soldiers > Texas > Biography
• Soldiers
• Erlebnisbericht
• Sezessionskrieg 1861-1865
• Soldat
• Soldiers > Texas > Biography
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate
• Texas
• United States
• USA > Südstaaten
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives, Confederate

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• Personal Narrative
• autobiographies (literary works)
• Personal narratives
• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• History
• Personal narratives – Confederate
• Autobiographies.
• Personal narratives.
• Récits personnels.

Note

• Originally published: Beaumont : Press of the Greer print, 1908.

Contents

Experiences and observation from the early fifties and through the Civil War -- General Jackson's flanking General McClellan and Seven Days' Battle before Richmond, Virginia -- Battle of Second Manassas -- Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia -- Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania -- Battle of Chickamauga -- Capture and escape -- Surrender and return home.

ISBN

• 052593992X
• 9780525939924

LCCN

94045324

OCLC

• ocm31709756
• 31709756
• SCSB-2096440

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library