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Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac Audiobook, by Frank Wilkeson Play Audiobook Sample

Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac Audiobook

Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac Audiobook, by Frank Wilkeson Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Paul Heitsch Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: June 2019 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781094000220

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

15

Longest Chapter Length:

35:53 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06:39 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

20:33 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

Who beside the enlisted men can tell how the fierce Confederates looked and fought behind their earthworks and in the open; how the heroic soldiers of the impoverished South were clothed, armed, and fed?

The memoirs of Grant, Lee, Hood, Gordon, Johnston, and other Civil War generals are some of our most common sources that we look at when learning about this tumultuous conflict.

But what about the voices of the common soldier?

Frank Wilkeson, when he wrote his account of the Civil War, aimed to rectify this and reassert the importance of looking at the accounts of the men who carried the muskets, served the guns, and rode their saddles into the heat of battle.

As he states in his preface, “The epauleted history has been largely inspired by vanity or jealousy, saving and excepting forever the immortal record.”

Wilkeson and his fellow comrades who lived on the frontlines of the conflict had no need to rescue their reputations or assert their actions and thus their accounts provide a brilliant and unbiased alternative view of this bloody war.

After lying about his age Frank Wilkeson was just sixteen when he joined the Union Army in 1864.

Through the course of the next year he saw some of the ferocious battles of Grant’s Overland Campaign.

Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac is a wonderfully refreshing account of the American Civil War that takes the reader to the heart of what it would have been like to have served in the front ranks.

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About Frank Wilkeson

Frank Wilkeson (1848–1913) was an American journalist, soldier, farmer, and explorer. He wrote several books, including an autobiography of his service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

About Paul Heitsch

After producing, directing, and engineering spoken word recordings for over twenty years, Paul Heitsch began narrating audiobooks in 2011, and has recorded many bestselling titles as both himself and under a pseudonym. A classically trained pianist, Paul is also a composer and sound designer, and is currently the director of music for the James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance, and an adjunct instructor for the JMU School of Music. He and his family live in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia (although Chicago will always be his hometown).