Last to leave the field [electronic resource] : the life and letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry / edited by Timothy J. Orr
- Author:
- Hayward, Ambrose Henry, 1840-1864
- Published:
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2010.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 320 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Orr, Timothy J.
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- Contents:
- "Independence still lives" : from North Bridgewater to Philadelphia, May 21, 1840-July 28, 1861 -- "We are not without our sport" : guarding the Potomac, July 28, 1861-February 24, 1862 -- "We all supposed the time for chewing cartridges had come" : the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, February 24-September 1, 1862 -- "Baltimore is a slumbering volcano" : Melville Hayward in Baltimore, May 25-September 5, 1862 -- "I have seen death in every shape" : the Maryland Campaign, September 1-December 29, 1862 -- "These are America's dark days" : winter quarters: December 29, 1862-April 27, 1863 -- "Last to leave the field" : the Chancellorsville Campaign, April 27-May 23, 1863 -- "I have done my duty in the last great contest" : the Pennsylvania Campaign, May 23-September 24, 1863 -- "If a battle, let it begin with the riseing of the sun" : the Chattanooga Campaign, September 24, 1863-January 10, 1864 -- "The white starr shines in Philadelphia" : veteran furlough, January 10-May 3, 1864 -- "Carrieing the war into Africa" : the Atlanta Campaign, May 3-June 19, 1864 -- Epilogue : "at his country's call".
- Subject(s):
- Hayward, Ambrose Henry, 1840-1864—Correspondence
- Hayward family—Correspondence
- United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 28th (1861-1865)
- Soldiers—Massachusetts—Brockton—Correspondence
- Soldiers—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—Correspondence
- Pennsylvania—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Personal narratives
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Personal narratives
- Pennsylvania—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Regimental histories
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Regimental histories
- Brockton (Mass.)—Biography
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- ISBN:
- 9781572337299 (hardcover)
157233729X (hardcover) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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