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Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans(A Nation Divided)

Civil War Talks: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans(A Nation Divided)


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George S. Bernard was a Petersburg lawyer and member of the 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Over the course of his life, Bernard wrote extensively about his wartime experiences and collected accounts from other veterans. In 1892, he published War Talks of Confederate Veterans, a collection of firsthand accounts focusing on the battles and campaigns of the 12th Virginia that is widely read to this day. Bernard prepared a second volume but was never able to publish it. After his death in 1912, his papers became scattered or simply lost. But a series of finds, culminating with the discovery of a cache of papers in Roanoke in 2004, have made it possible to reconstruct a complete manuscript of the unpublished second volume.

The resulting book, Civil War Talks, contains speeches, letters, Bernard’s wartime diary, and other firsthand accounts of the war not only by veterans of the Confederacy, such as General William Mahone, but by Union veterans as well. Their personal stories cover the major military campaigns in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania--Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, and Appomattox. For the general reader, this volume offers evocative testimonies focusing on the experiences of individual soldiers. For scholars, it provides convenient access to many accounts that, until now, have not been widely available or have been simply unknown.



About the Author :
Hampton Newsome is an attorney who lives in Arlington, Virginia.

John Horn is an attorney from Illinois.

John G. Selby is Professor of History at Roanoke College and the author of Meade: The Price of Command, 1863–1865.

Review :
The release of a second volume of heretofore unpublished primary sources by Bernard serves both a scholarly and a nonprofessional audience. This superbly edited collection will become an essential volume on Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia." - Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College, author of The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion

"Civil War Talks offers fresh, valuable insights into more than a dozen Civil War engagements provided by common soldiers, high-ranking officers, and civilians. This collection is an extremely valuable addition to the library of primary published Confederate narratives." - A. Wilson Greene, author of The Final Battles of the Petersburg Campaign: Breaking the Backbone of the Rebellion

"A rich collection of primary sources on the military history of the Civil War that, at times, also speaks to issues of historical memory . . . . The editors do an excellent job of clearly but unobtrusively guiding the reader through the documents." - The Journal of Southern History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780813952253
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 512
  • Series Title: A Nation Divided
  • Sub Title: Further Reminiscences of George S. Bernard and His Fellow Veterans
  • ISBN-10: 0813952255
  • Publisher Date: 23 Jul 2024
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 156 mm


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