All For The Union: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes - Hardcover

Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517584271 ISBN 13: 9780517584279

Publisher: Orion Books, 1991

Synopsis

The personal journal of a young Union soldier provides an insightful, eyewitness account of the battles and events

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War 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."

From the Back Cover:

"One of the best firsthand accounts I have read of campaigning and combat in the Civil War." -- James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom

"One of the most remarkable diaries I have ever read. Elisha Hunt Rhodes saw action from Bull Run to Appomattox and somehow survived, and his diary came to represent, better than any other I found, the spirit of the Union soldier." -- Ken Burns, director and writer of The Civil War

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0517584271
• ISBN 13: 9780517584279
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 255
• Editor: Robert Hunt Rhodes