Fighting for the Confederacy

[gem]

http://www.c-span.org/video/?163528-1/book-discussion-fighting-confederacy

Professor Gallagher talked about editing Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander, published by the University of North Carolina Press in a lecture called "Confederate General's Memoir -- A Detective Story." General Alexander's critical account of the Civil War, Military Memoirs of a Confederate, has been in continuous print since 1907. Archivists did not realize that his papers, stored at an historical society, also contained his personal memoir written only for his family and not for publication. Professor Gallagher told the story of his discovery of this unique account and of how General Alexander came to write two different accounts of the war. After his presentation, Mr. Gallagher took questions from members of the audience

 

[Mdiesel]

I own a copy of Porter Alexander's "Fighting for the Confederacy" & use it often as a reference. Very cool to learn its history & that it had basically been lost among Alexander's orher papers. I hadn't realized Alexander wrote this for his family & another "memoirs" for publication. Very interesting, thanks for posting

 

[Sgtredleg]

I'm in the middle of Porter Alexander's "Fighting for the Confederacy". Being a prior service " Cannon Cocker", I really like his Artillery perspective on the major events concerning the Army of Northern Virginia. Over the years I have sorted through the volumes of Infantry operations concerning the war, I find Alexander's work refreshing.