Last to Leave the Field: The Life and Letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Voices Of The Civil War)
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 157233729X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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He saw action in five states, participating in the battles of Antietam, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg as well as in the Chattanooga and Atlanta campaigns. Orr is an assistant professor of military history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.. Hayward’s service, which began with his enlistment in the summer of 1861 and ended three years later following his mortal wounding at the Battle of Pine Knob in Georgia, took him through a variety of campaigns in both the Eastern and Western theaters of the war. Yet, despite the increasing brutality of what would become America’s costliest conflict, Hayward continually reaffirmed his faith in the Union cause, reenlisting for service late in 1863. Ultimately, Hayward’s letters reveal the emotions—occasionally guarded but more often expressed with striking candor—of a soldier who at every battle resolved to be, as one comrade described him, “the first to spring forwa
About the AuthorTimothy J. Orr is an assistant professor of military history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Orr is an assistant professor of military history at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.. Timothy J
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