John Dooley's Civil War [[electronic resource] ] : an Irish American's journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment / / edited by Robert Emmett Curran

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910807824903321
• Autore: Dooley John <1842-1873.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2012
• ISBN: 1-280-12504-7; 9786613528902; 1-57233-830-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (551 p.)
• Collana: Voices of the Civil War
• Altri autori (Persone): CurranRobert Emmett
• Disciplina: 973.7/82
• Soggetti: Soldiers - Confederate States of America; Irish American soldiers - Confederate States of America; Prisoners of war - Ohio - Johnson Island; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate; Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate; United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Secession -- pt. 2. War -- pt. 3. Reconstruction.
• Sommario/riassunto: Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley's vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett's Charge and subsequently captured. As it happens, the 1945 edition is actually a much-truncated version of Dooley's original journal that fails to capture