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Book Reviews These are some reviews from a recent issue of
The Civil War News:
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A Maryland Boy in Lee’s Army: Personal Reminiscences of a Maryland Soldier in the War Between the States, 1861-1865
by George W. Booth, introduction by Eric J. Mink.
Softcover, index, 200 pp., 2000 reprint. University of Nebraska Press, 233 North 8th St., Lincoln, NE 68588-0255, $12 plus shipping.
Booth originally enlisted in the 1st Maryland Infantry and was in all that unit’s engagements from Manassas to its disbandment in August 1862. Booth then became adjutant of the 1st Maryland Cavalry, seeing action in the Shenandoah Valley and at Gettysburg. That fall, Col. Bradley T. Johnson managed to form the Maryland Line, promoting Booth to his assistant adjutant general. Booth saw action again in 1864, both against Sheridan’s cavalry as the Army of the Potomac advanced toward Richmond and as part of Jubal Early’s Valley Campaign. When Johnson was sent to take command of Salisbury Prison in late 1864, Booth accompanied him and served Johnson faithfully. Always modest, Booth wrote this memoir in 1898, but only 125 copies were printed. A 1984 reprint was also limited in scope, so this new paperback edition finally allows interested historians and buffs to read Booth’s penetrating memoir of his Civil War service. Booth was present at Gaines’s Mill, Greenland Gap, the burning of Chambersburg, and a host of skirmishes and action in between. Because accounts from Maryland Confederates are rare, Booth’s writing is important and at the same time provides historians with many tidbits not readily available elsewhere. Booth was candid in his writing, which was originally intended only for family and friends, and thus provided an honest account of his wartime service.
Richard A. Sauers
Richard A. Sauers is the author of numerous Civil War books, including Advance the Colors!
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