Written up from old diaries on an orange grove in Winter Park, Florida, this is the autobiography of Samuel Gibbs French, a West Pointer who fought in Mexico in 1846 and later commanded a Confederate division under Polk and Johnston in the Atlanta campaign. Day-by-day entries from the trenches sit beside his account of Allatoona, Sherman’s march and life after the surrender.
A first-hand Confederate source for Civil War readers, written from its author’s partisan point of view on secession and Reconstruction. Download the free EPUB.