Under Both Flags: A Panorama of the Great Civil War as Represented in Story, Anecdote, Adventure, and the Romance of Reality

by C.R. Graham (Editor)

Overview

The first-person accounts in this historical work provide a primary source for the war that forever changed the United States of America. The stories gathered together in the years leading up to this collection’s first publication in 1896 came directly from veterans who fought for the Union or the Confederacy. From flaming shells and shrapnel, to the smoky air after cannon fire, these brutal, vivid accounts of the civil war from both soldiers and their commanders bring the reader onto the battlefield and, with each fallen soldier, demonstrate the cost of war.

Making sense of such violent and deep divisions in our culture is as relevant today as it was during the turbulent times of this young nation. Presented in an unbiased format with unaltered stories, Under Both Flags: Personal Stories of Sacrifice and Struggle During the Civil War provides readers a chance to understand both sides of the conflict. The Civil War was an emotional war that struck at the hearts of our ancestors, pitting brothers against brothers, and uncles against nephews. The deep roiling tensions that led to the Civil War took decades to heal from and the scars left behind can still be seen on old battlefields today. These honest accounts are a unique collection that will prove an invaluable reference for Civil War enthusiasts and history buffs alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781620874387
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	02/01/2013
Edition description:	Facsimile
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

C. R. Graham was an editor who lived through the Civil War. After the conflict ended he compiled stories from veterans on both sides.

Table of Contents

	All Quiet Along the Potomac To-night	456
	Amenities of War	473
	Anecdote of General Polk	394
	Antietam	333
	Antietam, September, '62	528
	Antietam--Sharpsburg	109
	Appomattox	470
	Arrested Bullet, An	251
	Artillery Fight at Short Range	268
	At Chickamauga	146
	Battle Above the Clouds, The	322
	Battle Bonds	438
	Battle of Atlanta, The	162
	Battle of Nashville, The	386
	Battle of Port Royal, The	255
	Battle of Resaca, The	157
	Battle of Stone River, The	90
	Battle of the Crater, The	204
	Beleagured Petersburg	280
	Blue and the Gray, The	386
	Bombardment of Fort Darling	395
	Boy at Shiloh, A	363
	Brave Man's Sensation in Battle, A	389
	Brave Old Southern Woman, A	87
	Burning of the Gunboat Underwriter	120
	Burning Shame, A	241
	Carrying Despatches to Farragut	125
	Cavalry Versus Infantry	219
	Comrade John	417
	Confederate Ram Raid Off Charleston, S. C.	236
	Cooper's Battery "B" Before Petersburg	310
	Corporal King's Trip to Washington	431
	Courtesy of General Grant	102
	Curiosity in Verse, A	450
	Cutting Out the Underwriter	153
	Daring Exploit at Donaldsonville	209
	Day with Mosby's Men, A	228
	Death of General Phil Kearney	193
	Dog on the Battlefield, A	323
	Drum-head Court-martial, A	414
	Escape of the Fox	329
	Eulogy of General Grant	128
	Evans, Clement A.	239
	First Day's Fight, Gettysburg, The	70
	First Gun in Virginia in 1861, The	299
	First Provost Marshal of Harrisonburg, Va., The	198
	Foraging in the Kanawha Valley	383
	Fraternity at Vicksburg	105
	Fraternity--Union	321
	Freedom's Banner	175
	From Potomac to Susquehanna	78
	From the Etowah River to Atlanta	165
	From Vicksburg to New Orleans	248
	Generals Fight and Fraternize	467
	General Gordon at Appomattox	211
	General Lee Through the Eyes of a Staff Officer	403
	General Lost his Whiskey, The	156
	General Mahone at Gettysburg	69
	General Thomas and the Telegraph Operator	451
	General, The	271
	General U. S. Grant	130
	General William McCandless	456
	Gettysburg	69
	Grandeur of Battle, The	74
	Hardtack and "Tobacker"	194
	Held by the Enemy	324
	Heroine of the Siege, Vicksburg, A	108
	Hero of Manassas, A	326
	His Son's Friend in Blue	185
	His Sweetheart's Face	374
	How Blue and Gray Blend	437
	How North Carolina went into the War	358
	How the 164th New York Lost its Colors	302
	How Vallandigham Crossed the Lines	316
	Impregnable Vicksburg	105
	"In Foro Conscientlae"	392
	In Memory of the Brave	267
	In Memory of the Kearsarge	242
	In the Ranks Under General Lyon in Missouri--1861	510
	Interrupted Cavalry Charge, An	257
	Last Meeting Place of the Confederate Cabinet	233
	Last Salute, The	152
	Last Shot, The	446
	Last Victory of the Lost Cause, The	304
	Leaves from a Soldier's Diary	495
	Lincoln's Dedication Speech, Gettysburg	73
	McPherson, James B.	239
	Meade at Gettysburg	174
	Memorial Day	127
	Mending the Old Flag	357
	Message from Our Country's Dead, A	227
	Message from the Skies, A	218
	Midnight Ramble in the Ditches, Vicksburg, A	107
	Mosley's Letter, John	72
	My Recollections Of Shiloh	346
	My Recollections of War Times	212
	New York Monument, Gettysburg, The	81
	New Recruit, The	418
	Night with Bushwhackers, A	318
	North Carolina Captain's Breakfast, A	374
	Old Canteen, The	254
	Old Log Cabin on the Rapidan, The	507
	Old Thirteen, The	380
	On the Rappahannock	377
	On Picket in Front of the Enemy	462
	Our Blue and Our Gray	250
	Our Gentle Enemy	139
	Our Union	350
	Pack of Cards, A	195
	Pine and Palm	466
	Personal Recollections of "Stonewall" Jackson	131
	Points of Dispute Regarding Chickamauga	477
	Pretty Traitor, A	500
	Private Bill Garrett's Disgrace	191
	Proud Flag of Freedom, The	207
	Recollections of an Army Surgeon	293
	Reconstructed Rebel, A	388
	Reminiscences of First Bull Run, A	277
	Reminiscences of Point Lookout	416
	Reminiscences of the Sanitary Commission	397
	Rocky Face Ridge	262
	Romance of the Great Locomotive Raid	187
	Romantic Experience, A	176
	Romantic Incident of the War, A	529
	Round Top	328
	Rusty Sword, The	406
	Scouting in the Shenandoah Valley	172
	Secretary Herbert's Two Boy Heroes	282
	Shiloh after Thirty-two Years	220
	Sights and Scenes of Siege and Surrender Vicksburg	106
	Sister Joanelle	448
	Social Conditions During the War	314
	Soldier's Story, A	425
	Song of Blue and Gray, A	203
	Sorrow of '62, A	60
	Statistics of the Civil War	532
	Stonewall Brigade at Bull Run, The	351
	"Stonewall" Jackson's Grave	247
	"Stonewall" Jackson's Last Grand Blow	493
	Story of a Flag, The	259
	Supporting a Battery	273
	Survivor of Pickett's Division, A	77
	Sutler, The	381
	Swords of Grant and Lee, The	506
	Tales by Confederates	83
	To Columbia	279
	To My Wife	527
	To the Memory of General Robert E. Lee	363
	Touch of the Spur, A	408
	Two Brothers	138
	Vicksburg	99
	Vicksburg Menu, A	108
	Victory of Peace, The	385
	Wartime Ball in Dixie, A	183
	What a North Carolina Boy Saw of the Civil War	339
	What Might Have Been	85
	Who were the Brave?	318
	Wiggins of our Staff	95
	Winchester, Virginia	283
	With Buchanan on the Tennessee	62
	With Ewing at Tunnel Hill	139
	With Farragut on the Hartford	1
	With Pickett at Cemetery Ridge	306
	With the Evening Star	481
	Wounded and Captured, Gettysburg	76
	War Songs of the North and the South
	Marching Through Georgia	458
	The Battle Cry of Freedom	458
	John Brown's Body	458
	Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching	459
	Veteran's Toast, The	459
	Dixie	460
	The Bonnie Blue Flag	460
	My Maryland	460