(Download) "How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion" by George W. Peck # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion
- Author : George W. Peck
- Release Date : January 04, 2011
- Genre: United States,Books,History,Fiction & Literature,Historical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5220 KB
Description
George Wilbur Peck (September 28, 1840– April 16, 1916) was the 17th Governor of Wisconsin, but before that he wrote one of the most memorable Civil War memoirs, making himself the protagonist in How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion
In the late 1880s, the United States was undergoing sectional reconciliation between North and South, putting the Civil War behind them. One of the engines responsible for sectional reconciliation was Civil War veterans’ memoirs, which often focused on anecdotes of camp life and battle, without worrying about slavery and the causes of the war.
Into the fold stepped Peck, who used his “memoirs” as a sort of tongue in cheek satire of more regular Civil War memoirs. In fact, Peck gets right into it in Chapter 1, discussing how he has read the writings of generals on both sides and discovered that no general had lost any battles during the Civil War. His writing is entertaining and hilarious, and it won’t surprise readers to learn that he went on to found newspapers in Ripon and La Crosse, Wisconsin.
This edition is specially formatted with images, and a linked Table of Contents.
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