TY - BOOK AU - Hankins,Samuel W. AU - Marszalek,John F. TI - Simple story of a soldier /Samuel W. Hankins ; with a new introduction by John F. Marszalek T2 - Alabama Fire Ant SN - 9780817389833 AV - E568 .S567 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Hankins, Samuel W. KW - Confederate States of America KW - Army KW - Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 2nd KW - Military life KW - Soldiers KW - Mississippi KW - Biography KW - Social conditions KW - Hankins, Samuel W KW - Electronic Books N1 - Originally published: Nashville, Tenn. : Confederate Veteran, 1912; 2; Explanatory --; Simple Story of a Soldier; 2; b N2 - This fast-paced memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins while he was living in the Soldiers Home in Gulfport, Mississippi. It vividly details his years as a Confederate rifleman from the spring of 1861, when at a mere sixteen years of age he volunteered for the 2d Mississippi Infantry, through the end of the war in 1865, when he was just twenty years old and maimed for life. The 2d Mississippi was part of the Army of Northern Virginia and as such saw action at Bull Run/Manassas, Seven Pines and the Peninsular Campaign, and Gettysburg. Besides being hospitalized with measl UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1044333&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -