A YANKEE IN REBEL PRISONS

ISBN: 9780979044397 Géneros: HBJK:HBW Sinópsis: This fascinating work by Lt Alva C Roach completed and published in the year 1865 is surely one of the most descriptive of many personal journals written during the years of Americas terrible Civil War His depictions are so detailed and compelling as to make the reader feel as though we were there with him and our forefathers during his battles and two years in Rebel prisons Lt Roachs book though is uncommon in another way He declared his work unvarnished truth and much appears so Yet his words ring constantly with far more oozing a remarkable hatred and vilification toward Americans of the South In fact he often refers to them sneeringly as the chivalry Roach often proclaims Southerners as traitors murderers fiends villains and robbersrather than as they were devoted Americans who dearly loved this Nation and its freedoms for which they were the major founding force Sohere is a caution If your heritage is of Southern origin you may find Lt Roachs condemnation quite disconcerting even while reveling in his powerful eyewitnesstohistory description Today it seems no longer that Rebels reside just in the South Americans who completely fathom and believe deeply in the original words of our Constitution and the ideas of our Founding Fathers opposite the prosperityless murderous devastation of big government Communistlike control are found in every State in every region in every dialect of America And they seem to be speaking out againloudlyin favor of individual freedom as so many were in the years before Americas Civil War