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Civil War Memories: Lost Tales of the Civil War
Civil War Memories Lost Tales of the Civil War Author:S. T. Joshi (Editor) Civil War Memories commemorates the War Between the States and the authors who grappled with its drama in 21 stories and poems written at the height of the war. Some of these writers, including Ambrose Bierce and Louisa May Alcott, served in the war and wrote from direct experience. Others, among them Henry James and Mark Twain,... more » knew the war through its impact on a life lived far from the front. All wrote with the authenticity and immediacy that could only be conveyed by those who lived in an America scarred by Civil War gunfire and reverberating with its aftershocks.
Stories and contributors include:
Introduction: Prologue: The Reveille (1862) / Bret Harte
Fields of Glory: My Revenge (1864) / Anonymous
Quite So (1872) / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Three Hundred (1880) / W.C. Morrow
Three Miraculous Soldiers (1896) / Stephen Crane
Three and One Are One (1908) / Ambrose Bierce
Heroes and Heroines: John Lamar (1862) / Rebecca Harding Davis
My Contraband (1869) / Louisa May Alcott
The Bloodhounds (1879) / W.C. Morrow
"Corporal Billee" (1891) / Albion W. Tourgee
"Little Lamkin's Battery" (1898) / George Cary Eggleston
The Home Front: Lucretia Smith's Soldier (1864) / Mark Twain
The Story of a Year (1865) / Henry James
Bayou L'Ombre (1892) / Grace E. King
The Eve of the Fourth / Harold Frederic
Aftermath: An Independent Ku-Klux (1872) / John William De Forest
A Wizard from Gettysburg (1892) / Kate Chopin
The Gray Jacket of "No. 4" (1892) / Thomas Nelson Page
All but two stories were written in the 19th century. As such, some of them have the melodramatic style which was popular then. My favorite was one of the shortest, "Three and One Are One" by Ambrose Bierce.