INTREPID WARRIOR: CLEMENT ANSELM EVANS, R.G. Stephens, Jr. 1992 Hardcover w/DJ

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INTREPID WARRIOR: CLEMENT ANSELM EVANS, R.G. Stephens, Jr. 1992 Hardcover w/DJ
Title:
INTREPID WARRIOR: Clement Anselm Evans
Author:
Robert Grier Stephens, Jr.
Published:
1992 Morningside House, Dayton OH
ISBN:
0890295409
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Format:
Book
No. Pages:
598 pgs
Size:
9-1/4 x 6 inches
Edition:
unstated, assumed first edition
Cover:
hardcover, dust jacket
Illustrations/Photos:
sparsely illustrated
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About this Book:
The best synopsis of this book is from the dust jacket,
This is a rare love story, the devotion of a very brave man for his remarkable wife and children, and it is a history of a man's unfailing duty to the Southern cause during the Civil War. But this is also stark reality, NOT the simpering romanticism of a bad novel, depicting perfect creatures in never-never land, For far too long the invaluable papers of Brig. Gen. Clement A. Evans have remained virtually inaccessible to scholars, while he was best known as simply the editor of the monumental volumes titled Confederate Military History. It seems safe to say that henceforth no one will be able to write of the Army of Northern Virginia without consulting Evans. When Evans first began writing to his wife, he was a state senator in the Georgia legislature. The future seemed almost perfect. The Southern states would secede. No one could stop them. Even when the war came, Evans was certain of victory. Confidence was everywhere, and Evans caught the war fever. How could he have known that he would be wounded five times in the next four years and would lead the last, futile charge at Appomattox.
Evans was prolific in his letter writing, and, from time to time, he kept a diary for his wife. Whenever possible, she was with him at the Virginia camps, even as the Army of Northern Virginia retreated westward from Petersburg, At Sayler's Creek, Mrs. Evans would be captured by the Yankees, while her husband, entirely unaware, drove his men on to their fate. General Evans' diaries and letters were all carefully preserved, along with those of his wife, and they give us a whole picture, not only of a man at war, but of a woman trying to keep a family together in the best and worst of times.
Without formal military training, Evans rose in rank under Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon and would lead men in nearly every major Eastern battle except Sharpsburg. Starting in the Shenandoah Valley under Stonewall, Evans fought from Richmond on the Peninsula to the last retreat. He would describe it all, providing history with some unusual, unfiltered view of army life, of the generals, of how it felt to lead nen in a death struggle. Evans' admiration for Gordon was unfailing, but the praise did not extend to Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early. In fact, if there is a villain in Evans' papers, it is most certainly Old Jube, "my bad old man," as Lee would call him, who tried to blame others for his gross failure at Cedar Creek.
At times Evans was so close to the action, so hopeful of ultimate victory, that he did not events clearly. At Gettysburg, for example, he did not realize the South had lost, not only the battle, but the war as well. But then this is hardly a failing. In the midst of any crisis, it is hard to pick out the specific moment when the scales begin to tip.
Perhaps the most striking of Evans' letters are those describing the Battle of Monocacy during Early's raid on Washington, and the Battle of Cedar Creek, a few months later. At Monocacy, General Evans would receive a wound he could never forget. A ball hit his side, driving a paper of pins into his flesh, and for decades after, Evans would extract those pins, one by one. At Cedar Creek, a great victory was won and then turned to defeat when Early called off the advance allowing Sheridan to make his famous ride and claim an enormous coup. Evans knew exactly where the fault lay, and he described the events clearly, privately, for his wife alone. After the war Evans would not participate in the recriminations over defeat. In the few accounts he published, Evans had only praise for Southern participants in the Lost Cause. His self- imposed dictum seemed to be to say nothing if he could not speak praise. Of course, this would be the weakness of his great work, the multi-volume Confederate Military History. Evans held his tongue while Early excoriated others for their alleged sins, especially at Gettysburg. In Confederate Military History, Early's resistance at Cedar Creek was called "heroic and brilliant," although we now know Evans thought the opposite to be true.
Intrepid Warrior is indeed a rare love story, not of a swashbuckler and his beautiful maid, but a story of a married man's love for a wife, daughter, and a new-born son, If, along the way, he happened to get in the way of a few bullets. that was only incidental. Set in war, this is not simply a right-lank/left-Hank account of battle It is a story of people who care and feel deeply for each other and for their wounded country. In short, this is like no other personal record of the Civil War.
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Condition:
Near Fine (NF): Describes a book that shows some small signs of wear - but on first appearance looks to be Fine. Any defects noted by the seller: — a near-fine book in very good dust jacket — DJ has some light handling and wear — book has light foxing to page extremities — otherwise interior clean and binding is tight.
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