A Rebel War Clerk's Diary: At the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1: April 1861-July 1863

by J.B. Jones and Anonymous

Book Overview

Amidst the vast literature of the Civil War, one of the most significant and enlightening documents remains largely unknown. A day-by-day, uninterrupted, four-year chronicle by a mature, keenly observant clerk in the War Department of the Confederacy, the wartime diary of John Beauchamp Jones was first published in two volumes of small type in 1866. Over the years, the diary was republished three more times--but never with an index or an editorial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700621237
• ISBN13: 9780700621231
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"