Richard Barksdale Harwell
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English
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This fascinating journal of Kate Cumming, one of the first women to offer her services for the care of the South's wounded soldiers of the bloody Civil War, represents a detailed record of her activities and thoughts as a nurse. Spanning the time she was assigned to her first post in Okolona, Mississippi in April 186, working under Doctor S. H. Stout, a progressive military physician committed to the employment of women in hospitals, until May 29,...
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
©1983
Language
English
Description
One of the foremost authorities on Gone With the Wind, Richard Harwell, has gathered into one collection the most significant writings on the book, the film, and author Margaret Mitchell. Harwell brings special depth and understanding to these writings because of his personal acquaintance with Mitchell and his long-time study of GWTW phenomena. The late Richard Harwell was acknowledged as an expert on Gone With the Wind and related writings. He built...
Author
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
©1986
Language
English
Description
"Major Thomas W. Osborn was chief of artillery in the Federal Army of the Tennessee. His journal an letters were written during Sherman's campaigns from Atlanta to Savannah and through the Carolinas. Osborn's eyewitness account of the Civil War is significant particularly for its dispassionate social commentary and for his insights into General W.T. Sherman and O.O. Howard. The major was, as his remarks attest, a keen observer of officers, of the...