Soldier in the West (ePub)
The Civil War Letters of Alfred Lacey Hough
(Sprache: Englisch)
In 1861, Alfred Lacey Hough, a thirty-five-year-old commission merchant, left his wife, his two sons, and a comfortable home in Philadelphia to enlist as a sergeant in the Pennsylvania Volunteers. In his letters to his wife, Hough-who achieved the rank of...
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In 1861, Alfred Lacey Hough, a thirty-five-year-old commission merchant, left his wife, his two sons, and a comfortable home in Philadelphia to enlist as a sergeant in the Pennsylvania Volunteers. In his letters to his wife, Hough-who achieved the rank of captain and then brevet lieutenant colonel-revealed his complete devotion to Northern war aims, for he was an ardent champion of the Union cause. Each letter to his 'Dearest Mary' is the expression of a conscientious soldier who took great care to preserve for his descendants all of his experiences and observations during four crucial years of his life.Written by an educated, literate soldier, these letters-first published in 1957-are at once a valuable primary source for the historian and an exciting recreation of the events and moods of war. Hough served in the Western theater of operations, and his accounts of such battles as Corinth and Chickamauga, of the incidents along the route of Sherman's march on Atlanta, contain all the color and impact of eyewitness description.
Autoren-Porträt von Alfred Lacey Hough
ALFRED LACEY HOUGH (April 23, 1826 - Apr. 28, 1908) was a Union Army Officer who served as a Colonel on the staff of Major General George H. Thomas during the Civil War. He remained in the Regular Army after the war, and rose to Brigadier General.Born in Juliustown, Burlington County, New Jersey, he enlisted with the "Washington Grays" of the 17th Pennsylvania Volunteers in 1861, but resigned that commission and was made Captain of the 19th U.S. Infantry. He went on to serve in the Army of the Cumberland in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia from the period following the Battle of Shiloh in 1862 through to the Battle of Nashville in late 1864. At the conclusion of the war, Hough remained aide-de-camp to Thomas at Louisville and followed him to the Military Division of the Pacific in 1869. A career military man, Hough was elevated to the rank of Colonel and served throughout the Southwest before retiring in 1890.
He passed away in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey in 1908 aged 82.
PROF. ROBERT G. ATHEARN (August 30, 1914 - November 13, 1983) was a Professor of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a recognized authority on the history of the American West. Born in Kremlin, Hill County, Montana, he served in the U.S. Coast Guard during WWII. He was awarded the University of Colorado Medal (1982) and the Robert L. Stearns Award (1982) for his work at the University of Colorado. He was also the recipient of the John Caughey Award from the Western History Association. The Robert G. Athearn Lecture Series at the University of Colorado at Boulder hosts talks by academics and other historians on topics of Western history.
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- Autor: Alfred Lacey Hough
- 2017, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Prof. Robert G. Athearn
- Verlag: Golden Springs Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1787203700
- ISBN-13: 9781787203709
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.02.2017
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