A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt (Revised) by Cockrell, Thomas D.
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A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt (Revised) by Cockrell, Thomas D.

A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt (Revised)

LSU Press
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Description

Born the eighth child in a wealthy Mississippi plantation family in 1843, David Eldred Holt joined Company K of the 16th Mississippi Regiment in 1861 and served in the Eastern theater throughout the Civil War. Late in his life, at a time when many former soldiers, both Union and Confederate, were reliving their memories of that event, Holt penned this memoir, recounting the idyllic life of an affluent southern boy before the war and the exhilarating, sometimes humorous, often terrifying experiences of a common soldier in camp and in battle. This new edition has been expanded to include Holt's never-before-published diary entries from the last year of the war.



Author: Thomas D. Cockrell
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.06w x 0.84d
ISBN13: 9780807127346
ISBN10: 0807127345
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- Biography & Autobiography | Military
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)

About the Author

Thomas D. Cockrell is a professor of history at Northeast Mississippi Community College in Booneville, Mississippi.
Michael B. Ballard, coordinator of the Congressional and Political Research Center at the Mississippi State University Library, is the author of several books, including Civil War Mississippi: A Guide.