(Marlborough, N.Y.: Centennial Press, 1972. (Jackson, Mississippi: University and College Press of Mississippi, 1973. The Civil War Diary of Robert Masten Holmes, C.S.A. (Carbondale and Edwardsville, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University The Captain Departs. Following the Civil War, Douglas became an outspoken critic, unsuccessful office-seeker and eccentric bachelor-in short, the type of character that average people find fascinating. If that be so, let us hope that those also will find their way into print. The editors hint that Douglas also maintained extensive postwar journals. Similar in size and appearance to the original, the printed diary is qualitatively produced.

Yet here it is not so much the journal that is important as it is the writer for in the final analysis, the diary simply supplies an interesting introduction to the man whose major mark came later. It is the type of journal one would expect of a youth in the transition from adolescence to maturity. His diary of the two years he spent at that liberal arts school is a chatty, sometimes witty and oftentimes dramatic chronicle of purely local happenings and people. Douglas was eighteen when, in 1856, he entered the junior class at Franklin and Marshall College. They are as charmingly personal as they are militarily revealing. Douglas' Civil War recollections are still a fundamental source on Jackson's Corps.

Born in Ireland and the son of a Reformed Church minister who migrated to the Shenandoah Valley, Douglas became one of Stonewall Jackson's youngest but most reliable staff officers. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:īook reviews281 Few Confederate memoirs enjoy more popularity now than Henry Kyd Douglas' Í Rode with Stonewall (Chapel Hill, 1940).

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