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Article: Third Alabama! The Civil War Memoir of Brigadier General Cullen Andrews Battle, CSA. (Book Reviews).(Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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Third Alabama! The Civil War Memoir of Brigadier General Cullen Andrews Battle, CSA. Edited by Brandon H. Beck. (Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, c. 2000. Pp. xx, 180. $29.95, ISBN 0-8173-1001-0.)
Publishers seeking to cater to--and cash in on--popular and scholarly interest in the Civil War have churned out a seemingly endless stream of books containing letters, diaries, and memoirs written by the people who experienced the war in uniform. These works have varied in quality and value to students of the war. Many, unfortunately, have been distinguished by inadequate editing and offer little of use to students of the war other than a few ...