A Scythe of Fire: Through the Civil War With One of Lee's Most Legendary Regiments
by Wilkinson, Warren; Woodworth, Steven E.Edition: Reprint
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Summary
One of the most revered units to participate in the Civil War, the Eighth Georgia Infantry made history for fighting at the forefront of the war's most famous battles. In this stirring volume, two renowned historical researchers bring a human dimension to the struggle as they recount these soldiers' experiences.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| In Defense of Southern Rights | p. 1 |
| The Elite of the Town | p. 2 |
| I Go to Illustrate Georgia | p. 13 |
| A Report That Would Be Heard | p. 18 |
| Important Movements Are on Foot | p. 25 |
| To Belong to the Southern Army | p. 30 |
| Daughter of the Stars | p. 30 |
| They Would Rush into Danger | p. 35 |
| Those Halcyon Days in the Valley | p. 41 |
| We Knew Where We Were a Going | p. 46 |
| Never Give Up the Field | p. 51 |
| You Must Get There | p. 51 |
| Battle and Fighting Mean Death | p. 57 |
| Get Ready, Men! | p. 60 |
| I Could Hear the Bullets | p. 66 |
| That Place of Slaughter | p. 68 |
| We Have Whipped 'Em | p. 78 |
| What an Insignificant Creature One Man Is | p. 86 |
| All Quiet Along the Potomac | p. 92 |
| I Have Missed It | p. 92 |
| The Eighth Georgia Is Known | p. 95 |
| He Caused Them to Have Some Serious Thoughts | p. 101 |
| Nothing Unusual | p. 106 |
| Moped Up in a Tent | p. 115 |
| We Must Not Let the Yankees Take Richmond | p. 118 |
| The Blighting Effects of War | p. 118 |
| The Occasional Crack of a Rifle | p. 123 |
| The Idol of His Regiment | p. 131 |
| From Some Cause, Not Understood by Me | p. 137 |
| In Search of the Enemy | p. 145 |
| Resistless as an Ocean Tide | p. 150 |
| A Quiet but Deep Work | p. 150 |
| Deep and Stern Convictions of Duty | p. 156 |
| Our Generals Seem to Have Failed | p. 159 |
| Soldiers Must Know No Obstacles | p. 162 |
| The Grandest Sight I Ever Looked Upon | p. 169 |
| May the Lord Direct Me | p. 176 |
| Some of the Prettiest Fighting | p. 180 |
| We Can Whip Any Army | p. 188 |
| Much the Worse for Wear | p. 188 |
| We Could Riddle Him into Doll Rags | p. 194 |
| Safely Through Another Week | p. 199 |
| The Best Place to Move From | p. 205 |
| A Scythe of Fire | p. 212 |
| Quit Fooling with Them | p. 212 |
| Abolition Soil | p. 219 |
| Such as the Army Needs | p. 222 |
| Today We Shall Whip Them | p. 226 |
| A Splendid Line of Brave Men | p. 231 |
| Stand Up and Fight | p. 238 |
| The Valley of Death | p. 246 |
| We Had Not Won | p. 252 |
| The Frown of Heaven | p. 257 |
| The Worst Part of This War | p. 263 |
| Our Times Are in His Hands | p. 263 |
| Like Old Times at Home | p. 268 |
| The Most Exciting Charge | p. 272 |
| The Sullen and Angry Expression on the Faces of Our Soldiers | p. 277 |
| The Raging Sea | p. 283 |
| The Battle That Most Tried My Nerves | p. 283 |
| It Was a Butchery | p. 289 |
| As Befits One of the Eighth Georgia | p. 292 |
| A Secret Whisper | p. 297 |
| I Will Be in My Place | p. 303 |
| Appendix | p. 307 |
| Notes | p. 314 |
| Index | p. 329 |
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