Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier

Literature & Fiction

Leon, Louis

Essays & Correspondence

BiblioBazaar

History

Americas

In this intriguing story, author Louis Leon takes you into the heart and mind of Ruben Lopez who uses innate street smarts to climb from the depths of Houston's barrio into mainstream America and the world of national politics.After spending nine of his first twenty one years incarcerated, Ruben is able to keep his vow never to return to prison only because of three self- serving women: a beautiful Hispanic lawyer, Marcia Gutierrez, who rejects his lust; an aggressive Anglo columnist, Ann Ross, who over the years reports with a favorable spin Ruben's questionable progress into respectability; an ambitious African-American executive assistant, Althea Lane, who uses Ruben as the company spy while helping him rise through the company hierarchy.Ruben progressively faces the challenges of poverty, violence, racism, gangs, corporate corruption, and grass-roots politics, while contesting arrogant judges, conniving community leaders, corporate embezzlers, and the good-ole-boy Governor of Texas. Does Ruben really change from the juvenile delinquent of his youth? You will be thoroughly entertained as you decide.

Congress Avenue

Humor & Entertainment

iUniverse, Inc.

<p>Louis Leon, a Jewish Southerner from Charlotte, North Carolina, kept and later published a diary of his experiences fighting for the Confederate army during the War Between the States. Louis first joined the "Charlotte Grays," Company C of the first North Carolina Regiment, and began his tour of duty on 21 May 1861 in Richmond, Virginia, one day after North Carolina seceded from the Union. He fought in the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863 and was taken prisoner less than a year later in May 1864. After spending eleven months in a New York prison, he took the oath of allegiance to the United States and was reunited with his parents in New York City. Leon published his diary at the age of 72. His narrative provides an overview of a soldier's itinerant routine over a four-year span, during which time the basic need for sleep, food, and clothing became as important as the battles he fought and survived.</p>

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Confederate Reprint Company, The

Louis Leon first published his "Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier" in 1913 at the age of 72. Louis was a young Confederate soldier, and his war journal tells a timeless tale of freshfaced enthusiasm and patriotism tempered over time by hard work, anguish, and the grueling horrors of warfare. Louis was captured at the Battle of the Wilderness and was transferred to the Elmira Prison Camp. Special thanks those in both the North and South, for their dedication to preserving the historical integrity of the Elmira Prison Camp.

Diary of A Tar Heel Confederate Soldier

New York History Review

Diary Of A Tar Heel Confederate Soldier (1913)

Kessinger Publishing

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