Getting Used to Being Shot At
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Getting Used to Being Shot At

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Getting Used to Being Shot At

About this book

This collection of letters bears witness to the Civil War of the common soldiers and junior officers of the Army of Tennessee. Brothers Alex and Tom Spence described to their family in detail not only the many battles in which they served, but the hardship of campaigning (they marched literally thousands of miles), the pride of serving in battle-proven units, and the pain of losing comrades to bullets and disease. The Spences were a wealthy family who owned land, slaves, and the main hotel in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. With their successful careers and extensive property, they were among Clark County's most prominent families when the shadow of secession fell across Arkansas. Four years later, Arkansas would be ravaged by war, and Tom and Alex Spence would lie in soldiers' graves, far from home. Mark Christ has assembled their powerful letters from a collection in the Old State House Museum, weaving in other letters from their extended family and friends, brief but thorough introductions to each chapter, and evocative photographs. The story moves chronologically from the outset of war to the final letter from Alex's grieving fiancée.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: “The ball I expect will open before long . . .”: The First Arkansas in Virginia
  10. Chapter 2: “We had a very hard Fight . . .”: The Second Arkansas Mounted Rifles in the Trans-Mississippi
  11. Chapter 3: “Until endurance ceased to be a virtue . . .”: Shiloh and Corinth
  12. Chapter 4: “Two faces we shall never meet up with again . . .”: Kentucky and Murfreesboro
  13. Chapter 5: “We gained a great Victory at Chickamauga . . .”: Tullahoma to Ringgold Gap
  14. Chapter 6: “There has been some hard fighting . . .”: The Atlanta Campaign
  15. Chapter 7: “Now I shall have something to live for . . .”: Franklin
  16. Epilogue: “Many painful reminiscences are connected . . .”
  17. Appendix 1: The Poison Spring Letter
  18. Appendix 2: Thomas Spence’s Eulogy
  19. Appendix 3: Solomon’s Spence’s Obituary
  20. Appendix 4: The Places They Fought
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index