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A Gunner in Lee's Army Lib/E: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter

A Gunner in Lee's Army Lib/E: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter


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In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate Army. Over the next four years, he rose steadily in rank from captain to colonel, placing him among the senior artillerists in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. During the war, Carter wrote more than one hundred revealing letters to his wife, Susan, about his service. His interactions with prominent officers--including Lee, Jubal A. Early, John B. Gordon, Robert E. Rodes, and others--come to life in Carter's astute comments about their conduct and personalities. Combining insightful observations on military operations, particularly of the Battles of Antietam and Spotsylvania Court House and the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, with revealing notes on the home front and the debate over the impressment and arming of slaves, Carter's letters are particularly interesting because his writing is not overly burdened by the rhetoric of the southern ruling class. Here, Graham Dozier offers the definitive edition of Carter's letters, meticulously transcribed and carefully annotated. This impressive collection brings to light Carter's unvarnished opinions of the people and events that shaped his wartime experience, shedding new light on Lee's army and Confederate life in Virginia.

About the Author :
Graham Dozier is managing editor of publications at the Virginia Historical Society and the compiler of Virginia's Civil War: A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society. Graham Dozier is managing editor of publications at the Virginia Historical Society and the compiler of Virginia's Civil War: A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society. Joe Barrett began his acting career at the age of five in the basement of his family's home in upstate New York. He has gone on to play many stage roles, both on and off-Broadway, and in regional theaters from Los Angeles, Houston, and St. Louis to Washington DC, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine. He has appeared in films and television, both prime time and late night, and in hundreds of television and radio commercials. Joe has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. He has been an Audie Award finalist eight times, and his narration of Gun Church by Reed Farrel Coleman won the 2013 Audie Award for Original Work. AudioFile magazine has granted Joe fourteen Earphones Awards, including for James Salter's All That Is and Donald Katz's Home Fires. Regarding Joe's narration of John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, AudioFile said, "This moving book comes across like a concerto . . . with a soloist-Owen's voice-rising from the background of an orchestral narration." Joe is married to actor Andrea Wright, and together they have four very grown children. Lloyd James has been narrating since 1996, has recorded over six hundred books in almost every genre, has earned six AudioFile Earphones Awards, and is a two-time nominee for the prestigious Audie Award. His bestselling and most critically acclaimed performances include Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley, Jr., Ben Hur by Lew Wallace, Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitskin, and Mystic Warrior by Tracy and Laura Hickman. Lloyd's background as a performer includes extensive work in classical theater and folk music. He lives in Maryland with his wife and children.

Review :
"A Gunner in Lee's Army comprises the best published recollections we have of a Virginia artillery commander. In over one hundred letters to his wife, Carter was extremely observant as well as highly opinionated about military actions and individual officers. Superbly edited, this book is a necessary source for any study of the Army of Northern Virginia." -- "James I. Robertson Jr., award-winning author of " "Colonel Tom Carter belongs on any short list of the bright young artillerists who made Lee's "Long Arm" famous, in company with Pelham, Pegram, Alexander, and Huger. His smart and perceptive letters, skillfully edited by Graham Dozier, make one of the best primary sources on the Army of Northern Virginia to reach print in recent memory." -- "Robert K. Krick, author of The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy " "Joe Barrett delivers the commentary, background information, and footnotes, and Lloyd James narrates the letters of Colonel Thomas H. Carter in this firsthand account of life in Confederate service during the Civil War...[Carter's] letters, which are almost all addressed to his wife, describe not just battles but also life in camp, his very plain-spoken opinions of his compatriots and superiors, and life in the South during the war. James transforms himself into Carter--his accent, pacing, and inflection are perfect. Barrett, while not as adept, is quite splendid reading the commentary. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award." -- "AudioFile" "Meticulously edited and compiled." -- "Civil War Round Table"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781483017761
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 272 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1483017761
  • Publisher Date: 25 Sep 2014
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Height: 155 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter
  • Width: 168 mm


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