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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes 1st Vintage Civil War Library Ed edition
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Elisha Hunt Rhodes
All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."
272 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 28, 1992 |
| ISBN13 | 9780679738282 |
| Publishers | Random House USA Inc |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 203 × 132 × 22 mm · 340 g |
| Language | English |
| Contributor | Geoffrey C. Ward |
| Contributor | Robert Hunt Rhodes |