Writings of a Rebel Colonel: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Samuel Walkup, 48th North Carolina Infantry (Samuel Walkup ed.Kemp Burpeau - DLM) confederacy and GPS points for a

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This time the Union troops wrested the wall and high ground from the Confederates and drove west into the enemy’s rear

that he tried to lead the Texas Brigade in a counterattack to save the day at the Wilderness

many in the north who were inclined to shrug off the departure of southern states came around to strong opposition and answered President Lincoln's call for a volunteer army

Writings of a Rebel Colonel: The Civil War Diary and Letters of Samuel Walkup, 48th North Carolina Infantry (Samuel Walkup ed.Kemp Burpeau - DLM) confederacy and GPS points for aby Samuel Walkup Lawyer, planter and politician Samuel Hoey Walkup (1818 1876) led the 48th North Carolina Infantry in the Civil War. A devout Christian and Whig nationalist, he opposed secession until hostilities were well underway, then became a die hard Confederate, serving in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days battles through Appomattox. Presenting Walkup's complete and annotated writings, this composite biography of an important