This book is a collection of letters from James B. Griffin, a wealthy planter from Edgfield, South Carolina. With a strong introduction from the editors, this book recounts an officer's Civil War and provides a social and military history.
This extraordinary collection of 80 previously unpublished Civil War letters is both a penetrating look at the middle ranks from Virginia and South Carolina fronts and an intensely personal drama of the homefront and battlefront. 25 halftones. 8 maps.
a fresh and valuable insight into the war and Confederate life ... The book is well edited and guaranteed to be politically correct.
