This memoir of the Civil War, Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley Sorrell (1838-1901), was a genuine pleasure to read. Published some 35 years after the war ended, it is not a typical military memoir. Sorrel himself says as much at the beginning; he leaves the discussion of most military strategy and tactics to others. But he occupied a significant position. For much of the war, he was the chief of staff for Brigadier General James Longstreet.
He was part of numerous battles in the eastern theater of the war: both battles of Bull Run (Manassas), Seven Pines, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the eastern Tennessee campaign, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg.
Some Wednesday Readings
A School of Strength and Character – Tanner Greer at Palladium Magazine.
Captured, Imprisoned: The Experiences of Union Civilian Families during the Second Battle of Winchester – Sarah Kay Bierle at Emerging Civil War.
“This is no place for you!”…A father and son at Cedar Mountain – Mike Block at Emerging Civil War.
The Civil War Abroad: How the Great American Conflict Reached Overseas by Charles Priestley – reviewed by Neil Chatelain at Emerging Civil War.
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