Union Soldier in the Land of the Vanquished
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21st Missouri Infantry
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American history primary source
Author_Mathew Woodruff
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Civil War aftermath
Civil War diary
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F. N. Boney
Gulf Coast history
Historical firsthand account
Mathew Woodruff diary
Military occupation
Postwar South
Reconstruction era
Southern society 1865
Union soldier memoir
Product details
- ISBN 9780817312572
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 135 x 206mm
- Publication Date: 06 May 2003
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mathew Woodruff was a frontiersman by adoption, [and] as a sergeant in the 21st Missouri Infantry, he participated in all the major campaigns of the western theater. In June 1865, following a furlough home, this veteran of twenty-two rejoined his regiment for occupational duty along the Gulf coast of Mississippi and Alabama. The journal spans the remaining period of 1865 only, yet it is a unique and revealing chronicle of life in the victorious federal forces. Civil War History ""The brief daily entries, with all the misspellings and grammatical mistakes, present an insight into the frustrations and pleasures of a peacetime soldier. There are a wide range of topics covered: Woodruff's duties as first sergeant, discipline problems, hunting and fishing trips and social activities. Beyond the soldier's immediate experience, the reader gets an outsider's view of a southern city during reconstruction."" Alabama Historical Quarterly
