Author : Cornelius Irvine Walker
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Charleston (S.C.)
ISBN : 9781572336636
Great Things are Expected of Us by Cornelius Irvine Walker Pdf
This collection of letters written by Colonel C. Irvine Walker of the 10th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., to his fiance? during his service in the Civil War includes commentary on the campaigns in Tennessee and Kentucky in which his regiment participated. Among those mentioned in his letters are the battles of Chickamauga, Franklin, Murfreesboro, Nashville, Shiloh and Spring Hill in Tennessee and the Battle of Mundfordville in Kentucky. Included in this volume are postwar corrections and commentary that Walker added when he had his letters transcribed decades after the war.