All for the Union
Author: Rhodes, Elisha Hunt
ISBN: 9780679738282
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 28 Jul 1992
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
i>All for the Union/i> is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary i>The Civil War/i>. Rhodesenlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted ini>The Civil War/i> will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."
ISBN: 9780679738282
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 28 Jul 1992
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
i>All for the Union/i> is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary i>The Civil War/i>. Rhodesenlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted ini>The Civil War/i> will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."
