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A Volunteer in the Regulars: The Civil War Journal and Memoir of Gilbert Thompson, Us Engineer Battalion

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"At the outbreak of the war, Gilbert Thompson joined the regular army and was assigned to the engineer battalion. He began writing a journal of his service. After the war, Thompson took his three wartime journals and interleaved them into a single volume, adding some of his postwar reflections along the way. Thus, the text he left to posterity is both journal and memoir, and he maintains a clear delineation between these two perspectives throughout. Thompson was also an accomplished artist and topographer, and his sketches ...

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A Volunteer in the Regulars: The Civil War Journal and Memoir of Gilbert Thompson, Us Engineer Battalion 2020, Univ Tennessee Press

ISBN-13: 9781621905592

Hardcover