Simple Story of a Soldier
Life and Service in the 2nd Mississippi Infantry
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The camp, battle, and prison experiences of a common soldier. "The story is doubtless the most vivid record of a Confederate soldier's life that has been or will be written. [Hankins] gives in detail the most ludicrous events vividly as if a mature, gifted writer had kept a diary at the time, and his truly 'simple story' will create sympathetic interest. It is so devoid of bitterness that a man who served on the 'other side' . . . would sympathize with him in the hardships and privations of prison life and deplore that the government he served did not when it could render more humane service t...
The camp, battle, and prison experiences of a common soldier. "The story is doubtless the most vivid record of a Confederate soldier's life that has been or will be written. [Hankins] gives in detail the most ludicrous events vividly as if a mature, gifted writer had kept a diary at the time, and his truly 'simple story' will create sympathetic interest. It is so devoid of bitterness that a man who served on the 'other side' . . . would sympathize with him in the hardships and privations of prison life and deplore that the government he served did not when it could render more humane service to him."--"Confederate Veteran, " 1912 John F. Marszalek is the retired William L. Giles Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University and author of, among other works, "Sherman: A Soldier's Passion for Order "and "The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny, and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House."
