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No disgrace to my country : the life of John C. Tidball / Eugene C. Tidball.
| Author/creator | Tidball, Eugene C., 1930- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2002. |
| Description | xviii, 564 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Pt. i. The Old Army -- Growing up: "I became my own preceptor" -- Getting through West Point: "there was nothing in my rustic appearance..." -- [new title to come]: "I had gone to the academy with the intention of -- Staying" -- First experiences in the Old Army: "he then fairly frothed at the mouth..." -- A visit to antebellum Georgia: "I was charmed by the openhearted hospitality -- With which i had been received" -- Florida: "I had the pleasure of trampoodling through the swamps between Indian -- River and the kissimmee" 000 -- Artist of the great reconnaissance: "during the last days mule meat sufficed to -- Get us through" -- An office job in Washington: "it was the Dred Scott decision that I heard -- Chief Justice Taney delivering" -- Training for war: "we went out at four in the morning and drilled like fury" -- Guarding the president: "presently one of the parlor windows opened and from -- It emerged a tall, lanky, awkward figure..." -- Pt. ii. The war of the rebellion -- The Fort Pickens relief expedition: "everything had to be done on the jump..." -- First Bull Run: "in the minds of the South it confirmed them in the much vaunted -- Boast that one southerner was equal to two Yankees" -- Up the peninsula: "we have had a good many little skirmishes" -- Down the peninsula: "the fight like fiends" -- Bloody Antietam: "I always managed to have the last shot" -- Waiting for a promotion: "I have no spirit nor life left in me" -- Chancellorsville and Gettysburg: "never has such arduous service been required -- Of batteries" -- From the Wilderness to Spotsylvania: "in this delightful recreation called war we -- Are sometimes likely to get our heads knocked off" -- From Cold Harbor to Petersburg: "where we have to fight such bloody battles -- For every inch gained, the miles appear very long" -- Commandant of cadets: "I felt much wounded in pride" -- Fort Stedman and the grand assault: "never since the invention of gunpowder -- Has such a cannonade taken place" -- Pt. iii. Peacetime and retirement -- The Pacific coast: "take it all in all, it is the sorriest country that I have yet ever seen" -- Chasing moonshiners and training artillerymen: "among such lawless people -- As inhabit the mountain region of North Carolina..." -- Aide-de-camp to General Sherman: "the general was a man of striking personality" -- Odd jobs for the commanding general: "the cold became still more biting..." -- General Sherman's last march: "the chief justice fell heavily to the ground". |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 546-553) and index. |
| LCCN | 2001002307 |
| ISBN | 0873387228 (alk. paper) |