Slack's War

by David Williamson (Editor)

Overview

"Slack's War" consists of 121 letters written from 1862 to 1865 by General James R. Slack, 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to his wife, Ann.

Slack's letters span the entire length of his service and include not only his commentary on all the events and battles he participated in (New Madrid, the White River and Yazoo Pass Expeditions, Grant's March, Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Vicksburg, Jackson, the Bayou Teche and Red River Campaigns, Pointe Coupee Parish, Lousiana, New Orleans, and Mobile), but also his commentary on the Indiana home front and the Indiana Treason Trials, life in the occupied Mississippi Valley, life in occupied Mobile and Spring Hill, Alabama, and postwar service at Brazos Santiago Island and Brownsville, Texas.

The Indiana State Library (ISL) permitted use of only one-half of the James R. Slack inventory and these letters, transcribed verbatim by the editor, comprise the half he selected from the ISL's annotated bibliography. Excerpts of some of Slack's letters appear in his book, "The 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry: A Civil War History," Jefferson, N.C., and London: McFarland & Company, Publishers, 2012.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014368520
Publisher:	Kirkbride, Keagy, Johnston, Perrott & Rose
Publication date:	05/25/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	387
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Other books by David Williamson: The Third Battalion Mississippi Infantry and the 45th Mississippi Regiment: a Civil War History (McFarland, 2003, 2009) and The 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry: A Civil War History (McFarland, 2012). Two other books, while they stand alone, also supplement the author's history of the 47th Indiana: Slack's War-Selected Civil War Letters of General James R. Slack, 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, to His Wife, Ann, 1862-1865 (CreateSpace, 2012); the first and second editions of The 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry-Court-Martial Case Files (CreateSpace, 2012, 2015), and a Spanish translation of the second edition entitled "Consejos de Guerra" (CreateSpace, 2015). On a lighter note, Williamson has also authored a book of stories about a cat that he and his wife rescued years ago called, Dear Lucky: Letters to Our Cat (CreateSpace, 2013) with color action photos by Brenda. Most recently, he has published a family history and genealogy series: The Ancestors and Descendants of David Williamson and Mary Wiseman of Lanarkshire, Scotland; The Descendants of William Gettemy of Donegal, Ireland, and Sarah Williams of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania; The Descendants of Eli Rose and Hannah Jenkins of Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey; The Descendants of John Rudolph "Hance" Keagy of Zurich, Switzerland, and Rebecca Patterson of Conestoga Township, Pennsylvania; and The American Descendants of Matthew and Magdalen Kirkbride of Cumberland, England (CreateSpace, 2017).

Author David Williamson (BA, University of Akron; PhD, Tulane University) lives in Mississippi with his wife, writer/photographer Brenda Perrott Williamson, and their cats, Wilde Oscar and Samantha. David is a great-grandson of Pvt. Eli Rose of the 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry.