A PORTION OF MY LIFE - 2nd NORTH CAROLINA REGIMENT

Description: A PORTION OF MY LIFE BEING A SHORT AND IMPERFECT HISTORY WRITTEN WHILE A PRISONER OF WAR ON JOHNSON’S ISLAND, 1864 BY WILLIAM M. NORMAN Confederate Captain, 2nd Regiment, North Carolina, C.S.A. MINT CONDITION MINT CONDITION DUST JACKET This is a new, unread, pristine-condition book. Sample book shown; your new book is still in the original shrink wrap. Clean, Sharp, Solidly-Bound, Illustrated, New Book Excellent First-Hand Memoir by a Civil War Soldier ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1883, THIS IS A 1970 FACSIMILE REPRINT OF THE JOHN F. BLAIR, PUBLISHER COPY, BY THE SURRY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, IN 2002 Out-of-Print Book VALUED AT $50.00 BY BROADFOOT In his history of the Second Regiment of North Carolina Troops, Captain Matt manly says that after the original Company A of the Second Regiment was transferred to the artillery, its place and designation were taken by “a company of fine fellows from Surry.” With respect to the Battle of Chancellorsville, he also recounts that “Lieutenants Norman and Banner took their men so far to the front that Norman fell badly wounded and Banner into the hands of the enemy.” On November 7, 1863, while on picket duty near Kelly’s Ford, Virginia, William M. Norman, now a Captain, found his company surrounded and was forced to surrender. He was imprisoned on Johnson’s Island, in Lake Erie, where he wrote the sketch of his life that is reproduced in this volume. Captain Norman intimates very strongly that he is minimizing the hardships of his captivity on Johnson’s Island in the hope that he will be permitted to take what he has written with him when he leaves. At the close of the war, Captain Norman was placed on the mainland and allowed to walk home. It took him more than three months. The family tradition is that, when he arrived in Surry County, North Carolina, he was so emaciated that it was possible to run the encircling fingers of one’s hand from shoulder to wrist along his arm. Captain Norman never fully recovered his health, nor did he resume the practice of law. He became a small farmer, a surveyor, a justice of the peace, and the father of nine children. In addition to his Civil War writing, Norman’s memoir also discusses aspects of his earlier life. As a young, restless man, Norman went West and here provides some interesting, if not entirely sympathetic, description of the Pawnee Indians and his dealing with them. Returning home, he eventually joined up and fought with two North Carolina regiments, reaching the rank of Captain. Here are is writings from Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and other important battles, as well as his account of his imprisonment. THIS BOOK IS IN MINT CONDITION This book is brand new, unread and in pristine condition. It comes in a new dust jacket. Sample book show; your book is brand new and comes in the original publisher's shrink wrap. It is clean, sharp and solidly bound and there isn’t a mark in the book. The book has illustrations on the end pages. It contains photographs and facsimile documents. The pages are clean and bright white. The binding is fine and solid. A nice, sharp, new, pristine-condition copy of this extraordinary memoir of a Confederate Captain. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's FREE Counter

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