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- catalog abstract "In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up duty with the Confederate Army in a style that befitted a Southern gentleman: on a fine-blooded horse, with two slaves to wait on him, two trunks, and his favorite hunting dog. He was thirty-five years old, a wealthy planter, and the owner of sixty-one slaves when he joined Wade Hampton's elite Legion as a major of cavalry. He left behind seven children, the eldest only twelve, and a wife who was eight and a half months pregnant. As a field officer in a prestigious unit, the opportunities for fame and glory seemed limitless. In A Gentleman and an Officer, Judith N. McArthur and Orville Vernon Burton have collected eighty of Griffin's letters written to his wife Leila at the Virginia front, and during later postings on the South Carolina coast. Extraordinary in their breadth and volume, the letters encompass Griffin's entire Civil War service. Unlike the reminiscences and biographies of high-ranking, well-known Confederate officers or studies and edited collections of letters of members of the rank and file, this collection sheds light on the life of a middle officer - a life turned upside down by extreme military hardship and complicated further by the continuing need for reassurance about personal valor and status common to men of the southern gentry. With a fascinating combination of military and social history, A Gentleman and an Officer moves from the beginning of the Civil War at Fort Sumter through the end of the war and Reconstruction, vividly illustrating how the issues of the Civil War were at once devastatingly national and revealingly local.".
- catalog contributor b9968669.
- catalog contributor b9968670.
- catalog contributor b9968671.
- catalog coverage "Confederate States of America Social conditions.".
- catalog coverage "Edgefield (S.C.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Cavalry operations, Confederate.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Cavalry operations.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate.".
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""Without Counting the Cost" -- Fort Sumter to Manassas -- Guarding the Potomac Line -- Retreat to the Rappahannock -- The Peninsula Campaign -- Tour of Duty Ends -- On the Carolina Coast: Fifth Regiment South Carolina Reserves -- Fear of Invasion: Colonel of the First South Carolina Militia -- Edgefield and Texas: Rebuilding Identities -- Family Tree -- Census Profile -- Wealth of Edgefield Household Heads -- Distribution of Slaves and Slaveownership -- Total Tax Valuation, Tarrant County, Texas.".
- catalog description "In 1861, James B. Griffin left Edgefield, South Carolina and rode off to Virginia to take up duty with the Confederate Army in a style that befitted a Southern gentleman: on a fine-blooded horse, with two slaves to wait on him, two trunks, and his favorite hunting dog. He was thirty-five years old, a wealthy planter, and the owner of sixty-one slaves when he joined Wade Hampton's elite Legion as a major of cavalry. He left behind seven children, the eldest only twelve, and a wife who was eight and a half months pregnant. As a field officer in a prestigious unit, the opportunities for fame and glory seemed limitless. In A Gentleman and an Officer, Judith N. McArthur and Orville Vernon Burton have collected eighty of Griffin's letters written to his wife Leila at the Virginia front, and during later postings on the South Carolina coast. Extraordinary in their breadth and volume, the letters encompass Griffin's entire Civil War service.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Unlike the reminiscences and biographies of high-ranking, well-known Confederate officers or studies and edited collections of letters of members of the rank and file, this collection sheds light on the life of a middle officer - a life turned upside down by extreme military hardship and complicated further by the continuing need for reassurance about personal valor and status common to men of the southern gentry. With a fascinating combination of military and social history, A Gentleman and an Officer moves from the beginning of the Civil War at Fort Sumter through the end of the war and Reconstruction, vividly illustrating how the issues of the Civil War were at once devastatingly national and revealingly local.".
- catalog extent "xviii, 362 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195093119 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0195093127 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Confederate States of America Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Edgefield (S.C.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "South Carolina Edgefield".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Cavalry operations, Confederate.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Cavalry operations.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate.".
- catalog subject "973.7/42 20".
- catalog subject "Confederate States of America. Army Officers Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Confederate States of America. Army. Hampton Legion Biography.".
- catalog subject "E547.H2 G755 1997".
- catalog subject "Griffin, James B., 1825- Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Soldiers South Carolina Edgefield Correspondence.".
- catalog tableOfContents ""Without Counting the Cost" -- Fort Sumter to Manassas -- Guarding the Potomac Line -- Retreat to the Rappahannock -- The Peninsula Campaign -- Tour of Duty Ends -- On the Carolina Coast: Fifth Regiment South Carolina Reserves -- Fear of Invasion: Colonel of the First South Carolina Militia -- Edgefield and Texas: Rebuilding Identities -- Family Tree -- Census Profile -- Wealth of Edgefield Household Heads -- Distribution of Slaves and Slaveownership -- Total Tax Valuation, Tarrant County, Texas.".
- catalog title "A gentleman and an officer : a military and social history of James B. Griffin's civil war / Judith N. McArthur, Orville Vernon Burton.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Personal narratives Confederate. fast".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".