
By George Knox Miller,Richard M. McMurry
This booklet comprises the letters of George Knox Miller who served as a line officer within the accomplice cavalry and took part in just about all of the key campaigns of the military of Tennessee. He was once, essentially, a truly well-educated younger guy. Born in 1836 in Talladega, Alabama, he built an excellent love for analyzing and the theater and set his points of interest once you have an schooling that may result in a profession in legislations or medication; in the meantime he labored as an apprentice in a portray company to earn school. Miller then enrolled within the college of Virginia, the place he excelled in his studies.
Eloquent, bordering at the lyrical, the letters supply riviting first-hand money owed of cavalry raids, the monotony of camp existence, and the horror of battlefield carnage. Miller provides exact descriptions of army uniforms, cavalry strategies, and legal stipulations. He conveys a deep dedication to the Confederacy, yet he used to be additionally severe of accomplice rules that he felt hindered the army's efforts. Dispersed between those war-related subject matters is the tale of Miller's budding courting with Celestine "Cellie" McCann, the affection of his lifestyles, whom he could finally marry. jointly, the letters supply significan perception into the existence, center, brain, and attitudes of an clever, expert, younger mid-19th-century white Southerner.
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