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A Volunteer in the Regulars: The Civil War Journal and Memoir of Gilbert Thompson, Us Engineer Battalion

A Volunteer in the Regulars: The Civil War Journal and Memoir of Gilbert Thompson, Us Engineer Battalion

Smith, Mark A.

Hardcover

Series: Voices of the Civil War

Military BiographiesArmed ForcesCivil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1621905594
ISBN13: 9781621905592
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Aug 3 2020
Pages: 502
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Massachusetts native Gilbert Thompson joined the regular army, which assigned him to the engineer battalion, a unit that provided critical support for the Union military effort in building bridges and roads and surveying and producing maps. While serving, Thompson kept a journal that eventually filled three volumes. The author's early education in a utopian community called Hopedale left him well read, affording a journal peppered with literary allusions. Once the war ended, Corporal Thompson added some postwar reflections to create a unified single volume, which editor Mark A. Smith has carefully arranged so that the reader can clearly distinguish between Thompson's contemporary accounts and his postwar reminiscences. An accomplished artist and topographer, Thompson illustrated his journals, adding depth to his narrative with portraits of key figures, drawings of ordinary scenes such as soldiers playing chess, and sights of the war. Additionally, he collected photographs both during and after the war, many of which are included.

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