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Some excellent original source material on the web
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Author:  Cruces [ Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Some excellent original source material on the web
http://www.wtj.com/wars/civilwar/

You can check both Hood's and Longstreet's autobiographies here.

Reminiscences of the Civil War
Select excerpts from General John Gordon's memoirs. General Gordon was the veteran officer who saluted Joshua Chamberlain's command.

Personal Memoirs
By U.S. Grant. Critically highlights many of the crucial events of the American Civil War from the viewpoint of this senior officer.

Advance and Retreat,
Memoirs by General Hood, commander of the Texas Brigade at Antietam and of one of Longstreet's divisions at Gettysburg.

From Manassas to Appomattox
By Lieutenant-General James Longstreet, one of the most important Confederate commanders of the war.

Memoirs of General Sherman
The memoirs of this famous Union commander who fought at Shiloh and later marched to the sea.

Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies
Orders, telegrams and reports from the navies of the United and Confederate States.

It's just like shooting squirrels, only these squirrels have guns
Author:  Ernie Sands [ Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:44 am ]
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Good material.

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Author:  Drex [ Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:05 am ]
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I have both Sherman's and Longstreet's memoirs and I can recommend Sherman's as a very good read. I am still trying to plow through Longstreet's. I would like to add "The Passing of the Armies" by Joshua Chamberlain where in a very moving description, he describes Gen. Gordon's reaction to the Union salute.

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Author:  Ernie Sands [ Sun Nov 29, 2009 7:03 pm ]
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I have a couple of Personal Memoirs.

One is by Gen George Washington (Can't find it right now)

Another is Ulysses S. Grant, 1st published in 1885, this edition by Barnes and Noble, 2003.

Another is Edward Porter Alexander, unpublished by Gen Alexander, but in 1989 by University of North Carolina Press.

These are very interesting and I have only skimmed them, so far.

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Author:  Drex [ Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:05 pm ]
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Ernie: In another recent post by Kennon Whitehead, he quotes from Alexander, don't know which book of the two Alexander wrote. Alexander's analyses seem to held in high regard byscholars also. I may have to look into his memoirs.

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