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This is a collection of war letters written by teenagers George and Walter Battle during their service in Company F, 4th North Carolina Regiment, CSA. Underage, yet full of vitality and idealism, these boys were not just fighting for their country; they were fighting to protect their family's name. Two young brothers had gone off to war as mere boys. Their experiences quickly hardened and molded them into veterans of the greatest army ever to march on American soil.
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The author explores the personality of this iron-willed commander & brilliant tactician & gives us colorful profiles of the men who served under him. This is the most complete & compelling account to date of the fighting unit so hated by Grant that he ordered any captured Ranger to be summarily executed without trail.
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Polyester 3'X5'. General Leonidas Polk was the Episcopalian Bishop of Louisiana, a Confederate Lt. Gen. and Corps Commander in the Army of Tennessee. Killed during the Atlanta Campaign of 1864, the entire Army of Tennessee mourned his death. This distinctive design consisting of white and red Crosses of St. George on a royal blue flag was carried by the regiments in the Polk Corps.