Footprints of a Regiment: A Recollection of the 1st Georgia Regulars, 1861-1865

by W.H. Andrews and W H Andrews

Book Overview

An absorbing, first-person Civil War memoir from the perspective of a foot soldier looking back some thirty years later. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563520303
• ISBN13: 9781563520303
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Best of it's kind

This is a superb memoir of the Civil War. First published in the 1890's like so many other memoirs it differs in that the author is writing from his dairy. While other memoirs from the period seem nostalgic and full of bravado Andrews tells it like it was, with few tangential passages to muddy the flow of his narrative. The matter of fact recounting of this soldier's life is a melody of endless boredom in camp, child-like wonder at a world he otherwise would not have seen, heartrending pathos and sometimes side-splitting humor. A modern editor's footnotes correct Andrews sometimes mistaken beliefs regarding large-scale events and historical details and add addition context for the narrative. This is a great book, both for the Civil War scholar and the casual reader.