by Hiram Smith Williams
edited by Lewis N. Wynne and Robert A. Taylor
University of Alabama Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-8173-5374-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-9162-1 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-0642-7
Library of Congress Classification E476.7.W55 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.7378

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
A different sort of Civil War diary.

"[M]ost intriguing . . . for it is the diary of a Confederate who spent most of his military service as a noncombatant . . . a soldier who was also an outspoken opponent of military life and war in general and of the Civil War in particular. Hiram Smith Williams was a native Northerner who moved to the South shortly before the war but enlisted as a private in the 40th Alabama Infantry. . . . This truly unique diary, which is enlivened by Williams’s keen eye for detail, a certain literary flair, and his frank assessment of the Confederate army and cause, also includes extensive notes and a perceptive introduction."
Civil War History