19th century war letters
A01=John Cotton
Alabama Civil War history
American South 19th century history
Author_John Cotton
Category=NHB
civil war personal narrative
Confederate Army history
confederate soldier letter
Coosa County
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Georgia Civil War campaign
letters from soldier to his wife
soldier personal writing
Tennessee Civil War campaign
Product details
- ISBN 9780817350437
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 149 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2003
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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These letters from a yeoman farmer in the Confederate Army to his wife in Coosa County, Alabama, will be of interest to historians not only for the light shed upon the life of the Confederate soldier, but also for frequent allusions to rural life and the operation of the farm in Cotton's absence. He enlisted at Pinckneyville, Alabama, on April 1, 1862, and was paroled at Talladega on May 25, 1865. During the intervening years he saw action in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the Dalton-Atlanta campaign, briefly again in Tennessee, then in Georgia against the forces of Sherman, moving finally into South Carolina.... These letters constitute an authentic record of a typical Confederate soldier's experience, ---Journal of Southern History
John Cotton was a Confederate soldier from Pinckneyville, Alabama. The late Lucille Griffith was a retired professor of History at the University of Montevallo. She also was editor of Alabama: A Documentary History.
