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Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia : Survival in a Civil War Regiment, Paperback / softback Book

Hell's Broke Loose in Georgia : Survival in a Civil War Regiment Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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Darling, I never wanted to gow home as bad in my life as I doo now and if they don't give mee a furlow I am going any how.

Written in December 1862 by Private Wright Vinson in Tennessee to his wife, Christiana, in Georgia, these lines go to the heart of why Scott Walker wrote this history of the Fifty-seventh Georgia Infantry, a unit of the famed Mercer's Brigade.

All but a few members of the Fifty-seventh lived within a close radius of eighty miles from one another.

More than just an account of their military engagements, this is a collective biography of a close-knit group.

Relatives and neighbors served and died side by side in the Fifty-seventh, and Walker excels at showing how family ties, friendships, and other intimate dynamics played out wartime settings.

Walker follows the soldiers of the Fifty-seventh as they push far into Unionist Kentucky, starve at the siege of Vicksburg, guard Union prisoners at the Andersonville stockade, defend Atlanta from Sherman, and more.

Hardened fighters who would wish hell on an incompetent superior but break down at the sight of a dying Yankee, these are real people, as rarely seen in other Civil War histories.

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