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The well-written and candid letters of a reasonably articulate Southern officer, who paints a lucid picture of everyday life in the Confederate army in a little-known theater Williamss letters, personally written and shot through with his sharp sense of humor and folksy artwork, provide an excellent account of a long neglected theater of the American Civil War. Western Pennsylvania History
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From That Terrible Field : Civil War Letters of James M. Williams, Twenty-First Alabama Infantry Volunteers
author
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Williams, James M.; Folmar, John Kent
publisher
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University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin
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0817300686
print isbn13
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9780817300685
ebook isbn13
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9780585140858
language
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English
subject
Williams, James M.,--1837-1903, Confederate States of America.--Army.--Alabama Regiment Infantry, 21st.--Biography, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental hi
publication date
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1981
lcc
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E551.5 21st.W54 1981eb
ddc
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973.7/82
subject
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Williams, James M.,--1837-1903, Confederate States of America.--Army.--Alabama Regiment Infantry, 21st.--Biography, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Regimental hi
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From That Terrible Field
Civil War Letters of James M. Williams, Twenty-First Alabama Infantry Volunteers
"I call this poor camp home, and I hail it with joy again! I marched away from it to the battlefield of Shiloh, and it seemed like home when I came back from that terrible field, weary, wet, and heart-sick..."
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Lt. Col. James M. Williams, Mobile, March 1864
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From That Terrible Field
Civil War Letters of James M. Williams, Twenty-First Alabama Infantry Volunteers
Edited by John Kent Folmar
The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa & London
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Copyright 1981 by The University of Alabama Press Box 870380 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Williams, James M 18371903. From that terrible field.
Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Williams, James M., 18371903. 2. Alabama Infantry. 21st Reg., 18611865Biography. 3. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Personal narra tivesConfederate side. 4. United StatesHistory Civil War, 18611865Regimental historiesAlabama Infantry21st. I. Folmar, John Kent, 1932 II. Title. E551.5 21st.W54 1981 973.782 [B] 80-27672 ISBN 0-8173-0068-6 AACR1
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To Mother
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Contents
Maps and Illustrations
viii
Preface
ix
Introduction
xi
I Hall's Mill, Fort Gaines, and Camp Memminger: October 19, 1861February 28, 1862
1
II Fort Pillow, Shiloh, and Corinth: March 7May 18, 1862
43
III Tupelo: June 1July 22, 1862
80
IV Fort Morgan, Choctaw Bluff, and Oven Bluff: August 13, 1862November 27, 1863
101
V Fort Powell, Mobile Defenses, Spanish Fort, and Cuba Station: January 24, 1864May 10, 1865
126
Notes
160
Bibliography
180
Index
182
Page viii
Maps and Illustrations
Lt. Col. James M. Williams: Mobile, March 1864
frontispiece
Lizzy and James: 1860
xii
Mobile Bay Area
2
Northeastern Mississippi and Western Tennessee
2
Mobile's Lower Bay Defenses
8283
Map of Alabama
109
Lt. Col. James M. Williams: Aug. 24, 1863
121
Bombardment of Fort Powell
127
Letter from Williams, July 23, 1864
133
Battle of Mobile Bay
138
Explosion and Ruins of Fort Powell
139
Defenses of the City of Mobile
142
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Preface
A number of years ago, while I was teaching U.S. history at University Military School in Mobile, Alabama, a young student asked me if I would like to see his great-grandfather's Civil War letters. I expected to find a few letters written in the unintelligible prose of the "I take my pen in hand" genre. Instead, I found, in a large black box, with the name Powell Williams in wooden block letters on the top, the James Madison Williams letters, papers, documents, and ambrotypes. The bulk of the collection consisted of over two hundred letters written by a literate, artistic, observant, and fascinating "northern rebel" (whose penmanship, by the way, was superb).
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