Author: STYPLE, William B. ed.
Title: Writing and Fighting the Confederate War: The Letters of Peter Wellington Alexander, Confederate War Correspondent.
Description: Belle Grove Publishing, 2002. Paperback. Good condition. Inscribed by the editor to titlepage. The Civil War as reported by Peter Wellington Alexander provides a welcome perspective of the conflict as seen by a journalist, and Styple focuses on the Confederacy and its life and death as seen and experienced this observant special correspondent for the Savannah Republican.During the Fredericksburg Campaign and on the march to Gettysburg, when Alexander was ill with camp fever, friend and protégé Capt. Virgil A. S. Parks filled in providing a soldier's view to the Republican. A dedicated Confederate partisan, Alexander, even in the new government's darkest days, sought in his writings to boost morale that there was light at the end of the tunnel. 272pp. ISBN 1883926149.

Keywords: military history politics political civil war united states of america american usa confederate