Rebel Private: Front and Rear: Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier-Fast Shipping

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The recent rediscovery of
Rebel Private: Front and Rear, effectively lost for decades, marks an authentic publishing event in the literature of the Civil War.A rare insight into the conflict from the point of view of a Confederate army enlisted man, this compelling memoir has been hailed by historians as a classic and indispensible key to understanding the Southern Mitchell even described it as her single most valuable source of research for
Gone With the Wind.

This stunning document is the work of a common foot soldier blessed with extraordinary perception and joining the famed Texas Brigade under Stonewall William A. Fletcher saw action at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Channcellorsville, and was wounded several times and escaped from a moving Union prison train before the South’s 1907, he published this powerfully evocative account of his exploits, a volume of frank, detailed recollections that spares none of the horror, courage, or absurdity of a fire destroyed all but a few copies before they could be copy, however, did make its way to the Library of Congress, where it was eventually , this colorful work has become the voice of the Civil War front-line grunt, speaking to the modern reader with the intensity of personal experience and a vividness of detail that gives it a riveting you-are-there quality.