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Diary of a Confederate Soldier : John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade American Military History (Columbia, S.C.)
author
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Jackman, John S.; Davis, William C.
publisher
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University of South Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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1570031649
print isbn13
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9781570031649
ebook isbn13
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9780585321356
language
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English
subject
Jackman, John S.,--1841-1912--Diaries, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate, Confederate States of America.--Army.--Kentucky Brigade, First--Biography, Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives,
publication date
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1997
lcc
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E564.5 1st.J33 1997eb
ddc
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973.7/469
subject
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Jackman, John S.,--1841-1912--Diaries, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate, Confederate States of America.--Army.--Kentucky Brigade, First--Biography, Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives,
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Diary of a Confederate Soldier
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AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY Thomas L. Connelly, Editor
Travels to Hallowed Ground by Emory M. Thomas
Forged by Fire: General Robert L. Eichelberger and the Pacific War by John F. Shortal
War and Society in Revolutionary America: The Wider Dimensions of Conflict by Don Higginbotham
Soldiers Blue and Gray by James I. Robertson
Diary of a Confederate Soldier: John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade William C. Davis, Editor
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Diary of a Confederate Soldier
John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade
Edited, with an introduction, by William C. Davis
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Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook.
1990 University of South Carolina
Published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press
Published 1990 First Paperback Edition 1997
Manufactured in the United States of America
03 02 01 00 99 7 6 5 4 3
ISBN: 1-57003-164-9
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 90-12431
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Contents
Introduction
1
1 Out to Seek Adventures: The Kentucky Regiments Go South
11
2 This Day Will Long Be Remembered: Shiloh
28
3 Get Out of the Wilderness: Vicksburg, Louisiana, and North to Kentucky
43
4 Trying His Hand in a Fight: Murfreesboro
63
5 We Have Had Stirring Times: Chickamauga and Chattanooga
82
6 We Have Seen More Fun To-day: Winter Camp; Sherman Awaits
99
7 We Are Again on the "War-Path": Resaca and the Bloody Road to Atlanta
118
8 The Hospital Rangers: After Atlanta with the Remnant Army of Tennessee
140
9 Having Been Absent 3 Years, 8 Months, and 4 Days: The Orphans Go Home
164
Index
171
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Introduction
"Nearly four years have passed," John Jackman wrote in the spring of 1865 as he looked back upon his service for the Confederacy. What years they had been, especially for a young man who left home for adventure, and wound up taking part in the greatest experience of his generation. For those young men who went to war in 1861 and the years following, the sights and sounds and the hardships and perils of America's bloodiest war became ever after a part of their lives.
Then and thereafter, most of the interest and attention was focused upon the armies and events in Virginia, on the one hundred-mile stretch of territory that separated the capitals of Union and Confederacy. But there was another war, spread over hundreds of thousands of square miles between the Mississippi River and the Appalachians. There, in what was then called the West, great armies vied for whole states, and there, historians will argue, the war was won and lost.
The units composing those western armies are, like their battles and campaigns, less remembered than their Virginia counterparts. Yet even before the conflict was ended, one Rebel command stood apart and has remained, for more than a century since, perhaps the most storied group of men of all those that formed the great Army of Tennessee. During the war they were known to themselves and their comrades as the First Kentucky Brigade. But even before the war's
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end they acquired another name, one their first historian likened to "a kind of title of nobility": the Orphan Brigade.1
Theirs was a story that few could match and none surpass. While their organization varied in the early years, for most of the war the brigade consisted of the 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th Kentucky Infantry and a battery of artillery. Raised out of Kentucky, which never seceded, the brigade had to form its regiments in Tennessee in the fall of 1861, then march back into Kentucky when that state abandoned neutrality, to continue recruiting and complete its organization. Here John Jackman joined what was to become the 9th Kentucky, and he was with the brigade when the Confederates abandoned Bowling Green in February 1862. Of more than four thousand who marched out of Kentucky that February, barely six hundred were left at the end of the war.2
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