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Carrying the flag the story of Private Charles Whilden, the Confederacy's most unlikely hero

Main Author: Rhea, Gordon C.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Basic Books, c2004.
Subjects:
Whilden, Charles Edmonston, > 1824-1866.
Confederate States of America. > Army. > South Carolina Infantry Regiment, 1st.
Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864.
Soldiers > South Carolina > Biography.
Virginia > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns.
South Carolina > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
Charleston (S.C.) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The fate of two nations
  • A city by a harbor
  • Life among scoundrels and grasshoppers
  • A desert blasted by fire
  • General Lee's shock troops
  • An eerie, inhospitable region
  • Like a Saturday evening market in Augusta
  • A mortifying disaster
  • Death was always present
  • The mule shoe
  • A human flagpole
  • Under a spreading oak
  • Epilogue.

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