A Gunner in Lees Army, Graham T Dozier
A Gunner in Lees Army, Graham T Dozier
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A Gunner in Lee's Army
The Civil War Letters of Thomas Henry Carter

Author: Graham T Dozier

Narrator: Joe Barrett, Lloyd James

Unabridged: 11 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/25/2014

Synopsis

In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate Army. Over the next four years, he rose steadily in rank from captain to colonel, placing him among the senior artillerists in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. During the war, Carter wrote more than one hundred revealing letters to his wife, Susan, about his service. His interactions with prominent officers—including Lee, Jubal A. Early, John B. Gordon, Robert E. Rodes, and others—come to life in Carter's astute comments about their conduct and personalities. Combining insightful observations on military operations, particularly of the Battles of Antietam and Spotsylvania Court House and the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign, with revealing notes on the home front and the debate over the impressment and arming of slaves, Carter's letters are particularly interesting because his writing is not overly burdened by the rhetoric of the southern ruling class.Here, Graham Dozier offers the definitive edition of Carter's letters, meticulously transcribed and carefully annotated. This impressive collection brings to light Carter's unvarnished opinions of the people and events that shaped his wartime experience, shedding new light on Lee's army and Confederate life in Virginia.

About Graham T Dozier

Graham Dozier is managing editor of publications at the Virginia Historical Society and the compiler of Virginia’s Civil War: A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society.

About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.

About Lloyd James

Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been a working professional actor in theater, film, television, and voice-overs for more than thirty years. He has narrated over one thousand audiobooks and won numerous Earphones Awards and nominations for the Audie Award and the Voice Arts Award. He holds a BFA degree in acting from Santa Fe University, New Mexico. 

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“Meticulously edited and compiled.” Civil War Round Table

“Joe Barrett delivers the commentary, background information, and footnotes, and Lloyd James narrates the letters of Colonel Thomas H. Carter in this firsthand account of life in Confederate service during the Civil War…[Carter’s] letters, which are almost all addressed to his wife, describe not just battles but also life in camp, his very plain-spoken opinions of his compatriots and superiors, and life in the South during the war. James transforms himself into Carter—his accent, pacing, and inflection are perfect. Barrett, while not as adept, is quite splendid reading the commentary. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile

“A Gunner in Lee’s Army comprises the best published recollections we have of a Virginia artillery commander. In over one hundred letters to his wife, Carter was extremely observant as well as highly opinionated about military actions and individual officers. Superbly edited, this book is a necessary source for any study of the Army of Northern Virginia.” James I. Robertson Jr., award-winning author of

“Colonel Tom Carter belongs on any short list of the bright young artillerists who made Lee’s “Long Arm” famous, in company with Pelham, Pegram, Alexander, and Huger. His smart and perceptive letters, skillfully edited by Graham Dozier, make one of the best primary sources on the Army of Northern Virginia to reach print in recent memory.” Robert K. Krick, author of The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy 

Awards

  • AudioFile Earphones Award
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