The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

by Edward Alexander Moore

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Genres: Civil War, History

188 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1907

Reviews

[Ward G · Rating 4 out of 5]

From star to finish.
This is simply a decent account. Of a regular everyday type of guy.
Mixed into the war.

A nice read, with common speech. Not someone trying to impress with language.
The forming of the artillery unit.
It's travels, including some meetings with famous military leaders of the south.

Also a nice historical outlook. On how they were treated by the civilian populance.
Going from battle to battle.
The author himself wounded several times. Being returned for duty.

The opening chapters, the feelings of winning victories.
To the slow realization, they would loose.
As the north just kept gaining strength and victories.

Also a nice historical piece, and possible geneology aid.
As he lists many of the members of the brigade.
As well as which ones killed, and for some.
What they did after the war.

I think this a welcome read. For anyone interested in this time period.

[william gauger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having read dozens of books on the Civil War, this little-known account rates with the best. The author served from near the beginning of the war thru Appomattox, and you experience with him the good times and the bad. He paints a particularly vivid picture of the war’s last few months, when the final outcome was painfully clear, but the sense of duty of most soldiers sustained them to the final curtain.

[Shelly♥ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Edward Moore offers a history of the Rockbridge Artillery through his own service and recollections, from time to time calling on the memories of others where he is not present.

Rockbridge Artillery was a Confederate Artillery unit mustered into service out of the Lexington, VA area during the start of the American Civil War. It served in what would later become the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. It fought from the beginning of the war, and was part of Artillery originally under Stonewall Jackson, and served at every major conflict in the east, surrendering at Appomattox.

Moore was a student at Washington College in Lexington at the start of the war. He had never been away from the Mountains of Virginia. He gives his account without much fanfare of the cause, but honors the bravery and valor of his fellow soldiers. He jumps around a bit - often relaying the final war fate of a person in a particular story or throwing in random details that may or may not directly link in with the action.

It is a very intimate account. Readers will enjoy the names - these were real people after all - and that it is an eye witness account. Moore has lived this. His writing style is strait forward and somewhat folksy in presentation. But he does pull the reader in to many places where they intersect with familiar pieces of the war - battles/personalities.

Recommend: Civil War Readers.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a pretty entertaining account by an enlisted member of one of the more famous artillery units of the Civil War. Moore's recounting of the campaigns in which he served under "Stonewall" Jackson are particularly good. While this book, like most of it's kind, has the occasional factual errors, the author's narrative rings true. It's also refreshing that this book lacks the bitter partisanship that sometimes infests Civil War memoirs.

This was a free Kindle edition, and as is usual with those, all of the illustrations have been removed. The captions for the illustrations have, annoyingly, been left in the book. Other than the pictureless captions that occasionally interrupt the narrative, this edition is carried out at least as good or better than many of the other cheap/free Kindle e-books I've read.

[Monte Lamb · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good matter-of-fact book on the Rockbridge Artillery from the Valley Campaign in 1862 until Appomattox. It gives a good representation of life in the Army of Northern Virginia during these years. It gives the view of how the soldiers saw the war, their leaders, and how they lived during the war.

[Daniel Evans · Rating 5 out of 5]

very good!
(it was written by my ancestor, of course)

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a good civil war personal narrative that should be more well known.

[Avis Black · Rating 3 out of 5]

Available at Open Library:
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL55880...

[Sam Blacker · Rating 4 out of 5]

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