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Sam Richards's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front
Samuel Pearce Richards
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Description for Sam Richards's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front
Hardcover. Bookseller Samuel Pearce Richards (1824-1910) kept a diary for sixty-seven years. This volume excerpts the diary from October 1860, just before the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, through August 1865, when the Richards family returned to Atlanta after being forced out by Sherman's troops and spending a period of exile in New York City. Editor(s): Venet, Wendy Hamand. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 b&w photos, 1 figure. BIC Classification: BJ; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 635.
A man, his family, and his city, brought vividly to life. This previously unpublished diary is the best surviving firsthand account of life in Civil War - era Atlanta. Bookseller Samuel Pearce Richards (1824-1910) kept a diary for sixty-seven years. This volume excerpts the diary from October 1860, just before the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, through August 1865, when the Richards family returned to Atlanta after being forced out by Sherman's troops and spending a period of exile in New York City. The Richards??i??i??' were among the last Confederate loyalists to leave Atlanta. Sam's recollections of the Union bombardment, ... Read more
A man, his family, and his city, brought vividly to life. This previously unpublished diary is the best surviving firsthand account of life in Civil War - era Atlanta. Bookseller Samuel Pearce Richards (1824-1910) kept a diary for sixty-seven years. This volume excerpts the diary from October 1860, just before the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, through August 1865, when the Richards family returned to Atlanta after being forced out by Sherman's troops and spending a period of exile in New York City. The Richards??i??i??' were among the last Confederate loyalists to leave Atlanta. Sam's recollections of the Union bombardment, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820329994
SKU
V9780820329994
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About Samuel Pearce Richards
Wendy Hamand Venet is a professor of history at Georgia State University.
Reviews for Sam Richards's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front
Richards's diary, the best surviving chronicle of wartime Atlanta, will be welcomed by scholars and thoroughly enjoyed by general readers. Venet's introduction, chapter introductions, and afterword succeed admirably in taking the reader inside Sam Richards's world through discussions of his youth, his courtship, his religion, his avocations, his politics, and his complex family life. - Thomas G. Dyer, author of ... Read more