Carrying the Flag The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero,9780465069576

Carrying the Flag The Story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's Most Unlikely Hero

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780465069576
ISBN10: 0465069576
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-03-02
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary

For forty years, Charles Whilden lived a life most noteworthy for a series of near misses. Repeatedly turned down for service in the Confederate Army, he did not enlist until the desperate days when anyone capable of locomotion was brought in to fill the ranks. He was subsequently plunged into the very regiment destined to see the worst of Grant's brutal spring 1864 campaign. But Whilden would go on to discover a courage within that was prefigured by none of his earlier failures.

Author Biography

Gordon C. Rhea is also the author of The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864; To the North Anna River: Grant and Lee, May 13-25, 1864, winner of the Fletcher Pratt Literary Award; and Cold Harbor: Grant and Lee, May 26-June 3, 1864, winner of the Austin Civil War Round Table's Laney Prize. He lives in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, and in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, with his wife and two sons.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(180)
1 The Fate of Two Nations
5(16)
2 A City by a Harbor
21(22)
3 Life Among Scoundrels and Grasshoppers
43(24)
4 A Desert Blasted by Fire
67(16)
5 General Lee's Shock Troops
83(20)
6 An Eerie, Inhospitable Region
103(26)
7 Like a Saturday Evening Market in Augusta
129(20)
8 A Mortifying Disaster
149(18)
9 Death Was Always Present
167(14)
10 The Mule Shoe 181(24)
11 A Human Flagpole 205(24)
12 Under a Spreading Oak 229(20)
Epilogue 249(2)
Sources 251(12)
Acknowledgments 263(2)
Index 265(14)
About the Author 279

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