Second Georgia
Catharine of Ivanhoe
Well researched, The Second Georgia Infantry
Regiment is a compilation of first
hand accounts of those who fought or those who loved the soldiers of Burke's
Sharpshooters, the color company (Company D) of the Second Georgia Infantry
Regiment. You taste the salt of their tears, touch the worn leather of their
diaries and marvel at their ragged courage in historian Mikell Harper's andante symphony of voices once fresh and
hopeful for swift victory and finally war-weary and despairing.
Company D of The Second Georgia Infantry Regiment was composed of units from
nine Georgia
counties: Banks, Burke, Meriwether, Muscogee (2), Fannin, Cherokee, Whitfield,
Marion and Stewart. They
participated in the battles at Manassas,
Antietam, Rohrback
Bridge, Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Gettysburg, Chicamauga, and finally the siege of
Knoxville.
Authentic photography, battle maps, period
illustrations and military correspondence are deftly interwoven into the short,
terse diary entries, transporting the reader to the front lines of the Civil War
theater.
Diary Excerpts:
James Harper, Foot Soldier,
August 14, 1864
"Today is the Sabbath. How discordant are the sounds which
greet the ear. The mellow peals of the solemn church bell heard in the distance
is disenchanted in a great measure of its pleasing associations by the sharp
crack of the rifle, the loud whiz of the parrott shell & the heavy boom of the
mortars telling in unmistakable terms of the deadly feud existing between man
and man."
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