TY  - BOOK
AU  - Campbell,Eric
TI  - A Grand Terrible Drama: From Gettysburg to Petersburg: The Civil War Letters of Charles Wellington Reed 
T2  - The North's Civil War
SN  - 9780823219711
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Illustration Credit Abbreviations --; Editor's Note --; Introduction --; 1 "that gift of drawing from the life around him" Charles Wellington Reed, 1841-1862 --; 2 '1 have been looking about for situations to suit me" Summer 1862 --; 3 'I am enrolled in the service of the United States" Mustering In: The Making of a Soldier --; 4 "! . .. made these old Virginia hills echo and resound with my good bugle" In the Washington Defenses --; 5 "the severest fought battle of the war" The Gettysburg Campaign --; 6 'I must speak the truth we did suffer" The Fall and Winter of 1863 --; 7 "the experience I shall gain ... will help me all the more" Winter Quarters, 1863-1864 --; 8 "there has been terrible fighting day and night" The Overland Campaign --; 9 "mud, mud, mud . .. but our course is progressing gloriously" Petersburg --; 10 "have been out all day, surveying the new lines" Service with the Topographical Engineers --; 11 "it was the grandest military display I ever witnessed" The Last Encampment: Mustering Out --; 12 "one of the most famous 'characters' in Boston" Charles Reed, Civilian --; Appendices --; Appendix A The Medal of Honor --; Appendix B The Mineapolis journal Article --; Appendix C The Boston journal Article --; Appendix D Fifth Corps Medal of Honor Ceremony --; Appendix E The Woburn Sword Return Ceremony --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This extensive and unique collection, consisting of over 180 letters and hundreds of drawings, covers Reed's period of service (1862-65) and provides the modern reader a wealth of information on the role of the Union army in the eastern theater, the events in the life of the Civil War soldier, and the war in general. A native of Boston, Reed served as bugler of the Ninth Massachusetts Battery, whose desperate holding action at Gettysburg ranks as one the most heroic actions of the war. During this battle Reed performed a deed of selfless bravery by saving his wounded captain from between the lines, an act for which he was later awarded the Medal of Honor. In addition to Gettysburg, Reed saw action in nearly all of the battles in the East from 1862 to 1865, including Bristoe Station, Mine Run, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Ana, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg.Reed's letters chronicle events, from the most common to the extraordinary, with simple yet thoughtful eloquence. His drawings capture a wide variety of events to which he was not only an eyewitness but also a participant. His talent was considered equal to that of leading newspaper artists of his day, and his drawings were used to illustrate a best-selling Civil War book, Hardtack and Coffee (1887). We are fortunate that Reed's writings and drawings have been preserved, and can be presented here in a single volume
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823295036
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823295036
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823295036/original
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