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100 1 $aHolt, David,$d1843-1925.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95054805
245 12 $aA Mississippi rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia :$bthe Civil War memoirs of Private David Holt /$cedited by Thomas D. Cockrell and Michael B. Ballard.
260 $aBaton Rouge :$bLouisiana State University Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axx, 354 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aDavid Eldred Holt was born in 1843, the eighth child of a wealthy plantation family in Wilkinson County, Mississippi. Eighteen years later, after his state seceded from the Union, he enlisted in Company K of the 16th Mississippi Regiment and was soon on his way to the northern Virginia theater, where he served throughout the Civil War.
520 8 $aLate in his life, at a time when many former soldiers on both sides of the Civil War were reliving their memories of that event, Holt penned this memoir, recounting the idyllic life of an affluent southern boy before the war and the exhilarating, sometimes humorous, and frequently terrifying experiences of a common soldier during the war.
520 8 $aAlthough Holt's antebellum observations are enlightening, he is at his best when describing his wartime experiences. Holt saw action in most of the major campaigns and battles of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and his battle descriptions rank among the most graphic, dramatic, and poignant accounts written by any participant in the war.
520 8 $aHe was gifted with the ability to record the salient details of any situation, to penetrate the confusion of battle and see the human emotions behind the faces of anonymous combatants.
600 10 $aHolt, David,$d1843-1925.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95054805
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vPersonal narratives, Confederate.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140262
610 10 $aConfederate States of America.$bArmy.$bMississippi Infantry Regiment, 16th.$bCompany K.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95054823
610 10 $aConfederate States of America.$bArmy of Northern Virginia.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82085860
651 0 $aMississippi$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vPersonal narratives.
650 0 $aSoldiers$zMississippi$vBiography.
700 1 $aCockrell, Thomas D.,$d1949-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95054825
700 1 $aBallard, Michael B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85336038
852 00 $bglx$hE568.5 16th$i.H65 1995