No Disgrace to My Country: The Life of John C. TidballKent State University Press, 2002 - 564 psl. This exhaustive study chronicles the life of career army officer John C. Tidball, from action in major Civil War battles to postwar service in the West. Beginning with the first Battle of Bull Run, Tidball, saw action in nearly all the major engagements in the Eastern Theater, including Chancellorsville, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Gettysburg, Antietam, and Petersburg. Using previously unpublished wartime letters and memoirs, Eugene C. Tidball captivates the reader with the story of his most famous relative's years in service to his country. Tidball's account extends beyond the Civil War, to include recounting his presence at the Supreme Court's delivery of the Dred Scott decision; his commanding of the military District of Alaska; his traversing the Southwest in 1853 as a member of the 35th Parallel Pacific Railway Survey; and his service as aide-de-camp to General-in-Chief William Tecumseh Sherman. |
Turinys
There | 13 |
I had gone | 32 |
He then fairly frothed at the mouth | 53 |
I was charmed by the openhearted | 76 |
I had the pleasure of trampoodling through the swamps | 103 |
During the last days mule meat | 115 |
It was the Dred Scott decision that I | 139 |
We went out at four oclock in the morning and drilled | 160 |
Never has such arduous service been | 290 |
In this delightful little recreation | 311 |
Where we have to fight such bloody | 331 |
I felt much wounded in pride | 346 |
Take it all in all it is the sorriest | 373 |
Among such lawless | 397 |
The general was a man of striking | 412 |
The cold became still more | 430 |
From it emerged a tall lanky awkward figure | 172 |
Everything had to be done on | 189 |
We have had a good many little skirmishes | 216 |
They fight like fiends | 232 |
I always managed to have the last shot | 252 |
I have no spirit nor life left in me | 271 |
The Chief justice fell heavily to | 449 |
As to my mental and moral qualifications I | 475 |
Notes | 495 |
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