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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
All for the Union The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Author: Elisha Hunt Rhodes, Robert Hunt Rhodes (Editor)
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...  more » 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."
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ISBN-13: 9780679738282
ISBN-10: 0679738282
Publication Date: 7/28/1992
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This was a very interesting account of a Civil War soldier's experience. This is a compassionate man not only for the cause but for the people he was fighting for. He explains how they lived,fought and died for the union. His unit cared for the people of the South even though they were not were not always received well. He described his experiences with the the other side at times as almost friendly.
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 reviewed All for the Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes on + 3 more book reviews
I really loved this book. I was right there in camp with Mr.Rhodes. The plainess of his writing draws you into the day to day life of a soldier and brings an understanding of why they fought.
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I find it difficult to believe that after 64 years of reading about the American Civil War, I started when I was 13, I just got around to this book. It was a delight to read. If you read it, don't forget to read the end notes. There was a lot of interesting stuff there too.

Elisha Rhodes was there from the beginning, at the first Battle of Bull Run, to the very end, at the Appomattox campaign.


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