THE HEART OF A SOLDIER

Pickett (Genl. George E., CSA)

215 pages.  Hardback.  Date of publication not shown, however there are 3 copyright claims; 1908, 1912 & 1913.  The last one by the publisher.  Frontispiece.  Cover is clean and tight, pages  are clean and binding is tight.  Some fading along outer edges due to age.   Very Good condition.

THE HEART OF A SOLDIER
As revealed in the letters of Gene. George E. Pickett C.S.A. 

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. 

Pickett was a General in the Confederate States of America Army. He is best remembered for being one of the commanders at Pickett's Charge, the futile and bloody Confederate offensive on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, that bears his name.

In February 1864, Pickett ordered 22 North Carolinians in Union uniform hanged as deserters after a failed assault on New Bern. His military career came to an inglorious end when his division was overwhelmed and defeated at the Battle of Five Forks.

Following the war, Pickett feared prosecution for his execution of deserters and temporarily fled to Canada. An old Army friend, Ulysses S. Grant, interceded on his behalf, and he returned to Virginia in 1866. He could not rejoin the Army, so he tried his hand at farming, then selling insurance. He died at age 50 in July 1875 from an "abscess of the liver".

The book was the work of his wife, who in the introduction tells of being visited at her home by Abraham Lincoln just after the Battle of Five Forks, who had come to see his "old friend."

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