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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMoore, Francis T.
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Story of My Campaign :
_bThe Civil War Memoir of Captain Francis T. Moore, Second Illinois Calvary /
_cFrancis T. Moore; ed. by Thomas Bahde.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (326 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tList of Images --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tForeword --
_tINTRODUCTION. Francis Moore's Memoir and the Construction of Civil War Memory --
_tMOORE'S PREFACE --
_tCHAPTER ONE. 1861 --
_tCHAPTER TWO. 1862 --
_tCHAPTER THREE. 1863 --
_tCHAPTER FOUR. 1864 --
_tCHAPTER FIVE. 1865 --
_tEPILOGUE. Francis Moore, Civil War Veteran --
_tAppendix A. Roster of Company L, "Delano's Dragoons," Second Illinois Cavalry --
_tAppendix B. Letter of Francis C. Moore to Mary Moore, October 5, 1862 --
_tAppendix C. Letter of Francis C. Moore to Mary Moore, October 7, 1862 --
_tAppendix D. Captain Francis Moore to Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas Requesting Permission to Raise a Black Cavalry Regiment --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 1861, Francis Moore appeared to be a perfectly ordinary, twenty-three year old man: a carriage maker in the bustling Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois. And there he might well have lived out his life in unadventurous comfort. But then the Civil War burst out, and Moore, along with most of his friends, like young men North and South, rushed to enlist in the army. His cavalry regiment soon set off for what proved to be four years of warfare, plunging him into harrowing experiences of battle that would have been unimaginable back in his small hometown and that uprooted him, body and soul, for the remainder of his life.Enter The Story of My Campaign, the remarkable Civil War memoir of Captain Francis T. Moore, which historian Thomas Bahde here offers in an original edition to contemporary readers for the first time. Moore began the war as a private in Company L of the Second Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, and was soon promoted to lieutenant and then captain of his company. He spent most of the war fighting guerillas in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. He fought at the battle of Belmont, Kentucky, in 1861 and raided Mississippi with General Benjamin Grierson in 1864. He also battled Confederate leaders, such as Nathan Bedford Forrest and Leonidas Polk. His unflinching chronicle of small-scale and irregular warfare, combined with his intimate account of military life, make his memoir as absorbing as it is historically valuable.Moore was also an unusually articulate young man with strong opinions about the war, the preservation of the Union, the institution of slavery, African Americans, the people of the South, and the Confederacy: his wartime observations and his postwar reflections on these themes provide not only a captivating narrative, they also provide readers with an opportunity to examine how the conflict endured in the memory of its veterans and the nation they served. The enormous social upheaval and staggering loss of human life during the Civil War cannot be overstated: the estimated 2 percent of Americans—or 620,000 people—who died in the conflict would be the equivalent of 6,000,000 people today. The Story of My Campaign offers an indelible account of this conflagration from the perspective of one of its survivors. It is evidence of a hard war fought—and the long hard life that followed.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650 0 _aSoldiers
_zIllinois
_vBiography.
650 4 _aBiography & Autobiography.
650 4 _aCivil War.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877).
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653 _aCaptain Francis T. Moore, Thomas Bahde, Second Illinois Volunteer Cavalry, intimate account of military life, Civil War memoir, wartime observations, postwar reflections.
700 1 _aBahde, Thomas
_ecuratore
700 1 _aFellman, Michael
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501757952
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