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Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

History

Casler, John O.

Americas

Morningside Bookshop

Published in 1906, this is the recollections of John Casler while in the service of the Confederacy and being a member of the Stonewall Brigade during the Civil War.

Four Years In The Stonewall Brigade

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"I was no secessionist, and hoped the trouble would be settled without recourse to arms; but when the war came I shouldered my musket in behalf of my native State and defended her to the last."As a commander in Stonewall Jackson's brigade, John Casler experienced all the horrors and comedy of the American Civil War. His time was not so different from his countrymen on the other side, with the exception of point of view.He buried more than one good friend."I saw my friend, William I. Blue, lying on his face, dead. I sat down by him and took a hearty cry, and then, thinks I, "It does not look well for a soldier to cry," but I could not help it. While I was at work a Georgian came to me and wanted the tools as soon as I was done with them. He said he wanted to bury his brother, and asked if I was burying a brother. 'No,' I replied, 'but dear as a brother.'"

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Independently published

Published in 1906, this is the recollections of John Casler while in the service of the Confederacy and being a member of the Stonewall Brigade during the Civil War.

The classic tale of battle, roguery, and capture from the Army of Northern Virginia. From his looting of farmhouses during the Gettysburg campaign and robbing of fallen Union soldiers as opportunity allowed to his five arrests for infractions of military discipline and numerous unapproved leaves, John O. Casler's actions during the Civil War made him as much a rogue as a Rebel. Though he was no model soldier, his forthright confessions of his service years in the Army of Northern Virginia stand among the most sought after and cited accounts by a Confederate soldier. First published in 1893 and significantly revised and expanded in 1906, Casler's Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade recounts the truths of camp life, marches, and combat. Moreover, Casler's recollections provide an unapologetic view of the effects of the harsh life in Stonewall's ranks on an average foot soldier and his fellows. A native of Gainesboro, Virginia, with an inherent wanderlust and thirst for adventure, Casler enlisted in June 1861 in what became Company A, 33rd Virginia Infantry, and participated in major campaigns throughout the conflict, including Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. at Fort McHenry, Maryland. His postwar narrative recalls the realities of warfare for the private soldier, the moral ambiguities of thievery and survival at the front, and the deliberate cruelties of capture and imprisonment with the vivid detail, straightforward candor, and irreverent flair for storytelling that have earned Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade its place in the first rank of primary literature of the Confederacy. This edition features a new introduction by Robert K. Krick chronicling Casler's origins and his careers after the war as a writer and organizer of Confederate veterans groups.

Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade (American Civil War Classics)

University of South Carolina Press

Stonewall Jackson's Men: the Personal Experiences and Letters of Three Confederate Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade during the American Civil ... of the Life of Captain Hugh White of Stonewa

Slaughter, Philip

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Leonaur Ltd

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Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

Four Years In The Stonewall Brigade

Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade

Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade (American Civil War Classics)

Stonewall Jackson's Men: the Personal Experiences and Letters of Three Confederate Soldiers of the Stonewall Brigade during the American Civil ... of the Life of Captain Hugh White of Stonewa