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100 1  Rhea, Gordon C. 
245 10 Carrying the flag :|bthe story of private Charles Whilden,
       the Confederacy's unlikely hero /|cGordon C. Rhea. 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c[2004] 
264  4 |c©2004 
300    v, 279 pages :|bmaps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  The fate of two nations -- A city by a harbor -- Life 
       among scoundrels and grasshoppers -- A desert blasted by 
       fire -- General Lee's shock troops -- An eerie, 
       inhospitable region -- Like a Saturday evening market in 
       Augusta -- A mortifying disaster -- Death was always 
       present -- The mule shoe -- A human flag pole -- Under a 
       spreading oak. 
520 1  "For forty years, Charles Whilden lived a life more 
       noteworthy for a series of near misses. Born to a 
       prominent South Carolina family that had fallen on hard 
       times, he tried his hand at a number of doomed ventures, 
       from practicing law to copper speculation, from Detroit to
       Santa Fe. Repeatedly turned down for service in the 
       Confederate Army, he did not enlist until the desperate 
       days when anyone capable of locomotion was brought on to 
       fill the ranks. He was subsequently plunged into the very 
       regiment destined to see the worst of Grant's brutal 
       spring 1864 campaign. 
520 8  But in the little time allotted to him, and thanks to a 
       remarkable chain of events, Whilden would go on to 
       discover a courage within that nothing in his former 
       endeavors suggested he possessed - and change the course 
       of one of the Civil War's most significant battles. 
       Against the epic backdrop of the antebellum South, Grant 
       and Lee's strategic maneuvering, and some of the bloodiest
       fighting this country has seen, historian Gordon C. Rhea 
       brings us this story of courage and endurance, terror and 
       heroism." 
520 8  "Carrying the Flag is both a battle story and a panoramic 
       view of history at a critical crossroads, one that takes 
       us beyond the frontlines, and shows us how individual 
       decisions can resonate in unforeseen and dramatic ways."--
       BOOK JACKET. 
600 10 Whilden, Charles Edmonston,|d1824-1866. 
610 10 Confederate States of America.|bArmy.|bSouth Carolina 
       Infantry Regiment, 1st. 
650  0 Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864. 
650  0 Soldiers|zSouth Carolina|vBiography. 
651  0 Virginia|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xCampaigns. 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xCampaigns. 
651  0 South Carolina|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xRegimental 
       histories. 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xRegimental 
       histories. 
651  0 Charleston (S.C.)|vBiography. 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aRhea, Gordon C.|tCarrying the flag.
       |dNew York : Basic Books, c2004|w(OCoLC)607031961 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aRhea, Gordon C.|tCarrying the flag.
       |dNew York : Basic Books, c2004|w(OCoLC)607892177 
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