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Title Soldier and scholar : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War / edited by Ward W. Briggs, Jr.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, [1998]
©1998

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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.7 GIL    Check Shelf
Description x, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series The publications of the Southern Texts Society
Publications of the Southern Texts Society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A collection of the writings of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, a classical scholar, Civil War journalist, and Charleston native. Includes autobiographical essays, sixty-three editorials written for the Richmond Examiner during the war, and a series of his reflections on the war written thirty years later. The latter pieces "are frequently vitriolic attacks not only on the evil and immoral Yankees, miscegenation, Jews, and critics of slavery, but also on Jefferson Davis, his hapless Confederate administration, and the struggling Southern armies."--Jacket.
Subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources.
Confederate States of America -- Politics and government -- Sources.
Confederate States of America -- Social conditions -- Sources.
Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924.
Added Author Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau), 1831-1924.
Briggs, Ward W.
ISBN 0813917433 cloth alkaline paper
9780813917436 cloth alkaline paper
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