A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia
by Thomas D. Cockrell
"The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt"
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A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia Book Details
War:
American Civil War
Perspective:
Infantry
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
Yes
Region:
North America
Page Count:
404
Published Date:
2001
ISBN13:
9780807127346
A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia Book Description
Born the eighth child in a wealthy Mississippi plantation family in 1843, David Eldred Holt joined Company K of the 16th Mississippi Regiment in 1861 and served in the Eastern theater throughout the Civil War. Late in his life, at a time when many former soldiers, both Union and Confederate, were reliving their memories of that event, Holt penned this memoir, recounting the idyllic life of an affluent southern boy before the war and the exhilarating, sometimes humorous, often terrifying experiences of a common soldier in camp and in battle. This new edition has been expanded to include Holt's never-before-published diary entries from the last year of the war.