Record of the organizations engaged in the campaign, siege, and defense of Vicksburg /
Author / Creator: | Kountz, John S., 1846-1909. |
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2011. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 186 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11120652 |
Summary: | Large numbers of Civil War veterans remembered and reminisced about their war experiences, but only a relative few dedicated the rest of their lives to the task of commemorating their long-ago deeds. John S. Kountz was one of this latter group. Kountz joined the Thirty-seventh Ohio Infantry in September 1861 as a fifteen-year-old drummer boy and later, under General William T. Sherman, endured the long siege at Vicksburg before helping to win control of the city in July 1863. In 1899 the War Department appointed Kountz as the official historian at the newly designated Vicksburg National Military Park. As part of his duties, he produced two major works, an organizational chronicle of the armies that fought at Vicksburg and an unpublished narrative of the campaign and siege. This welcome volume presents both of these extremely rare documents together for the first time, providing a valuable resource for a new generation of scholars and enthusiasts. |
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Item Description: | "Reprint of two founding documents for the Vicksburg National Military Park"--Publisher's note. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 186 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781572338340 1572338342 1283282348 9781283282345 9786613282347 6613282340 9781572337602 1572337605 |