The Civil War Diary and Letters of Samuel Walkup, 48th North Carolina Infantry
Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8669-1
Verlag: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Presenting Walkup's complete and annotated writings, this composite biography of an important but overlooked Southern leader reveals an insightful narrator of his times. Having been a pre-war civilian outside the West Point establishment, he offers a candid view of Confederate leadership, particularly Robert E. Lee and A.P. Hill. Home life with his wife Minnie Parmela Reece Price and the enslaved members of their household was a complex relationship of cooperation and resistance, congeniality and oppression. Walkup's story offers a cautionary account of misguided benevolence supporting profound racial oppression.