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The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine: The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley
Edward T. Cotham Jr.
Together, Gusley's diary and Nestell's drawings are like picture postcards from the Civil War?vivid, literary, often moving dispatches from one of "Uncle Sam's nephews in the Gulf."
Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series, No. 10
University of Texas
March 2006
Featuring: Henry O. Gusley; Daniel Nestell
256 pages ISBN: 0292712839 Hardcover
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Historical | Non-Fiction Memoir
On September 28, 1863, the Galveston Tri-Weekly News
caught its readers' attention with an item headlined "A
Yankee Note-Book." It was the first installment of a diary
confiscated from U.S. Marine Henry O. Gusley, who had been
captured at the Battle of Sabine Pass. Gusley's diary proved
so popular with readers that they clamored for more, causing
the newspaper to run each excerpt twice until the whole
diary was published. For many in Gusley's Confederate
readership, his diary provided a rare glimpse into the
opinions and feelings of an ordinary Yankee--an enemy whom,
they quickly discovered, it would be easy to regard as a
friend. This book contains the complete text of Henry
Gusley's Civil War diary, expertly annotated and introduced
by Edward Cotham. One of the few journals that have survived
from U.S. Marines who served along the Gulf Coast, it
records some of the most important naval campaigns of the
Civil War, including the spectacular Union success at New
Orleans and the embarrassing defeats at Galveston and Sabine
Pass. It also offers an unmatched portrait of daily life
aboard ship. Accompanying the diary entries are previously
unpublished drawings by Daniel Nestell, a doctor who served
in the same flotilla and eventually on the same ship as
Gusley, which depict many of the locales and events that
Gusley describes. Together, Gusley's diary and Nestell's
drawings are like picture postcards from the Civil
War--vivid, literary, often moving dispatches from one of
"Uncle Sam's nephews in the Gulf."
On September 28,
1863, the Galveston Tri-Weekly News caught its
readers' attention with an item headlined "A Yankee
Note-Book." It was the first installment of a diary
confiscated from U.S. Marine Henry O. Gusley, who had been
captured at the Battle of Sabine Pass. Gusley's diary proved
so popular with readers that they clamored for more, causing
the newspaper to run each excerpt twice until the whole
diary was published. For many in Gusley's Confederate
readership, his diary provided a rare glimpse into the
opinions and feelings of an ordinary Yankee—an enemy whom,
they quickly discovered, it would be easy to regard as a
friend. This book contains the complete text of
Henry Gusley's Civil War diary, expertly annotated and
introduced by Edward Cotham. One of the few journals that
have survived from U.S. Marines who served along the Gulf
Coast, it records some of the most important naval campaigns
of the Civil War, including the spectacular Union success at
New Orleans and the embarrassing defeats at Galveston and
Sabine Pass. It also offers an unmatched portrait of daily
life aboard ship. Accompanying the diary entries are
previously unpublished drawings by Daniel Nestell, a doctor
who served in the same flotilla and eventually on the same
ship as Gusley, which depict many of the locales and events
that Gusley describes.
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