A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt

The engaging memoir of an upper-class white man coming of age during the Civil War and surviving the major campaigns of Robert E. Lee in Northern Virginia. Holt speculates on the social customs of the ante- bellum south, including its agonized reaction to secession. However, it is his poignant, dramatic, and graphic accounts of the ordinary Confederate soldier in battle and camp which makes the memoir memorable and historically valuable. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.