A Young Virginia Boatman Navigates the Civil War: The Journals of George Randolph Wood

by George Randolph Wood, Anthony E. Kaye, Chandra Manning

George Randolph Wood filled several journal books with personal remembrances of life in nineteenth-century Hampton, Virginia; particularly of his experiences aboard river and canal boats transporting supplies for Confederate troops along the James River during the Civil War. Wood wrote about his experience because he thought it might interest his family, but his writing is of interest to a more general audience because of the scarcity of information...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813929032
• ISBN13: 9780813929033
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.2"