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电子邮件：我想你可能会对这资料感兴趣，资料位于 http://umaryland.worldcat.org/oclc/18835626 题名： Fighting for the Confederacy : the personal recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander 著者： Edward Porter Alexander; Gary W Gallagher; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) 出版商： Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989. ISBN/ISSN: 0807818488 9780807818480 OCLC:18835626

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Fighting for the Confederacy : the personal recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander

著者：	Edward Porter Alexander; Gary W Gallagher; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
出版商：	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989.
版本/格式：	打印图书 : 传记 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
提要：	First published by UNC Press in 1989, Porter Alexander's Fighting for the Confederacy is now considered one of the richest personal accounts of the Civil War. Intended for family and intimate friends, it is an insider's candid and evocative assessment of people and events.

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类型/形式：	Autobiography Personal Narrative Autobiographie 1861-1865 Quelle Personal narratives Autobiographies History Military history Récits personnels Periodicals Personal narratives, Confederate Récits personnels des confédérés
附加的形体格式：	Online version: Alexander, Edward Porter, 1835-1910. Fighting for the Confederacy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989 (OCoLC)596476182 Online version: Alexander, Edward Porter, 1835-1910. Fighting for the Confederacy. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1989 (OCoLC)608752622
提及的人：	Edward Porter Alexander; Edward Porter Alexander; Edward P Alexander; Edward P Alexander
材料类型：	传记, 互联网资源
文档类型	图书, 互联网资源
所有的著者/提供者：	Edward Porter Alexander; Gary W Gallagher; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries) 查找更多有关下列内容的信息：
ISBN:	0807818488 9780807818480
OCLC号码：	18835626
描述：	xxvii, 664 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
内容：	Early days -- First Manassas or Bull Run -- Fall & winter after Bull Run -- Seven days -- Second Manassas campaign -- Sharpsburg campaign -- The fall of 1862 -- The Battle of Fredericksburg -- Winter after Fredericksburg -- Battle of Chancellorsville -- The Gettysburg campaign -- Chickamauga -- Chattanooga & Knoxville -- Spring of 1864 -- Wilderness & Spottsylvania -- North Anna & Drury's Bluff -- Totopotomoy & Cold Harbor -- Passage of James River -- Siege of Petersburg -- Fall of 1864 -- Fall & winter of 1864 & '65 -- Appomattox.
责任：	edited by Gary W. Gallagher.
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This personal account of the American Civil War by General Edward Porter Alexander, provides an assessment of people and events. Alexander was involved in nearly all of the great battles of the East 再读一些...

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Simply the best Memoir of the War Between the States

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This book is special, because it was not written for the public, but for Porter Alexander's daughters. It was formal enough for our tastes, considering it was written for family, but once General Alexander was out of the country, and had begun what he only reluctantly agreed to do, he seems to have warmed to the task. He is oh, so candid, and personal. Generals are usually pretty guarded and stuffy, as Alexander showed in a subsequent formal military memoir---dry as dust.

In this remembrance, Porter recalls the little human interests, even the humorous things. He describes General Lee to his girls, without the typical gilded halos...something we were not prepared to see. He writes without rancor to his adversaries--particularly those with whom he shared a West Point comardarie. Porter was willing to stand by his people, and repel the Federal invaders, to the death---but, when the war was ended, he was realistic about the end of Southern Independence, and accepted whatever consequence there was for serving the losing side. This must have taken some courage and character, because of the sting of surrender to Southern pride. He does it well, and no doubt, led the way to reconciliation for his family. Fight honorably, fight well, and then get on with your life.

If one is wanting a view from the field, from a father, a husband, and a Staff Officer, walk through the main battles of the war with Porter, and smell the smoke. You may flinch at his honesty, but he was not writing to defend his service, as much as to explain the war so that his family could understand and follow the events as they unfolded. This is writing about 'What I did in the War' without addressing what his enemies might say; there is more of an honest angel on his shoulder, than the devil of what the opposition would say. Reference General Gordon's wonderful memoir, or Sherman's biographies, where there are defenses of slavery or defenses of barbarism in the name of 'total war'. General Alexander is talking to his family, describing what happened to him, and why it happened that way. He writes as an adult to grown children, without condescending to them and their lack of martial knowledge.

What is remarkable is that Gary Gallagher found the book, sitting at a university, in its handwritten form...unpublished, basically forgotten. We are indebted to the life of a gifted man, Porter Alexander, but also to the research and good sense of Dr. Gallagher, who tries to have the graciousness of kindness to the defeated South, while insisting on gathering all the facts he can find. His objectivity is endearing, and I cannot imagine what it felt like to read this beautiful account, for the first time, in Porter's scripted hand. We are all in his debt, as well as in the debt of Lee's Chief of Artillery. We would rather be behind his cassions, than in front of them, for his aim was true.

Tom Fowler, "blueridge"

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