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Galvanized [electronic resource] : the odyssey of a reluctant Carolina Confederate / Michael K. Brantley

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Brantley, Michael K.
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Odyssey of a reluctant Carolina Confederate
Published
[Lincoln, NE] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Physical Description
xv, 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Contents
Homecoming -- A name in a book -- The Rip Van Winkle State -- A new life in the face of an approaching storm -- My Civil War past -- Wright's enlistment and early campaigns -- Bloodbaths at Gettysburg and Bristoe Station -- The home front -- POW life leads to being galvanized ... and a great escape -- Return and Reconstruction -- Trouble about a yaller dog -- On the research trail -- Statues of limitations -- The future of the past : the Civil War is still being fought -- Epilogue.
Summary
"The story of a North Carolina farmer who fought in the Civil War. Wright Stephen Batchelor served in both armies, survived Gettysburg, was twice captured and spent time in the worst POW camps of the war, escaped, and walked hundreds of miles to rejoin his comrades at Petersburg just in time for a Union siege. After surviving it all, he went home to North Carolina only to be the victim of a bizarre murder"--
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ISBN
9781640121225 (hardback)
9781640123144 (epub)
9781640123151 (mobi)
9781640123168 (pdf)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181).
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