Alemeth: The Real People and Events: Including the Civil War Letters of John Alemeth Byers

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Joseph W Carvin

Alemeth

The Real People and Events: Including the Civil War Letters of John Alemeth Byers

Joseph W Carvin

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Nothing in Common Books
11 October 2022

History of the Americas; American Civil War

The 2017 historical novel Alemeth won critical praise for its lifelike rendering of the American South in the Civil War, focusing on the life of John Alemeth Byers, son of a wealthy cotton planter, who became a private in the 17th Mississippi Infantry. This work includes the entire novel, then adds nearly a hundred and fifty pages of Historical Notes documenting the facts behind the story, including historical information on the cotton plantation of Amzi Walton Byers, his family and his sixty slaves (including the young Gilbert, who accompanied Byers to the battle lines); on the early history of Ole Miss, its Trustee Colonel James Brown, and its President Frederick Barnard; on Sand Springs Presbyterian Church in Orwood, now on the National Register of Historic Places; and on Howard Falconer and the Oxford Intelligencer. It includes the text of sixteen wartime letters written home by Byers from the front in Virginia. (Byers fought in the Seven Days Campaign, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Cold Harbor before being killed at the battle of Cedar Creek.) The wide array of historical characters who became a part of the story also include the preacher Lyman Beecher, the Confederate spy Jacob Thompson, the slave Dred Scott, and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant. 551 pages. Biographical sketches, illustrations, graphics, photographs, source citations.

By: Joseph W Carvin
Imprint: Nothing in Common Books
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 984g
ISBN: 9798986186801
Pages: 558
Publication Date: 11 October 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Alemeth: The Real People and Events: Including the Civil War Letters of John Alemeth Byers

Carvin masterfully brings to life a South in dramatic transition, and he avoids the binary categories of pro and con that often typify the genre.. [A] thoughtful, sensitive rendering of a complex period in American history. A philosophically challenging look at the inner turmoil of the American South in the 19th century. -- Kirkus Reviews