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Simple story of a soldier /Samuel W. Hankins ; with a new introduction by John F. Marszalek.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, (c)2004.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 76 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817389833
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E568 .S567 2004
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Contents:
Explanatory -- Simple Story of a Soldier
Subject: 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.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction E568.5 2nd (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn914715263

Originally published: Nashville, Tenn. : Confederate Veteran, 1912.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Explanatory -- Simple Story of a Soldier

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.

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