Audiobooks by Edward Porter Alexander

Military Memoirs of a Confederate

One of the most important and objective firsthand accounts of the Civil War Unlike some other Confederate memoirists, General Edward Porter Alexander objectively evaluated and criticized prominent Confederate officers, including Robert E. Lee. The result is a clear-eyed assessment of the bloody conflict that divided but subsequently united the nation. The memoir starts with Alexander heading to Utah to suppress the hostility of Mormons who had refused to establish a municipal government approved by President Buchanan. Only a few years later, Alexander found himself on the opposite side of a much larger rebellion of Confederates wanting to secede from the Union. In the years that follow, he is involved in most major battles including Manassas, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. Alexander describes each battle and battlefield with a keen eye for detail. Few wartime narratives offer such insight and critical perspective as Alexander’s memoir.

Edward Porter Alexander (Author), Traber Burns (Narrator)

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Antietam: Military Accounts of the Bloodiest Battle in American History

The Battle of Antietam, (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg), was fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek. The battle was the culmination of Robert E. Lee's Maryland campaign in which Lee attempted to take the war to the North. The first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil, it was and remains, the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, claiming a staggering 23,000 casualties. The savage battle was not a clear victory for either side, though turning back the Confederate invasion gave Abraham Lincoln the "victory" he wanted before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. The following are detailed, first-hand military accounts of the logistics of the battle by both the Union and Confederate men who fought it. Includes accounts from: Charles Carleton Coffin George F. Noyes Horace Porter Edward Porter Alexander James Longstreet Jacob Dolson Cox, Jr.

Edward Porter Alexander, James Longstreet, Various Authors (Author), Andrew Mulcare (Narrator)

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