The long roll

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    • Johnston, Mary

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The long roll

by Mary Johnston

(Johns Hopkins paperbacks)

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

Johns Hopkins paperback ed.

  • : pbk.

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"The two rode on. To left and right were lighted streets of tents, visited here and there by substantial cabins. Soldiers were everywhere, dimly seen within the tents where the door-flap was fastened back, about the camp-fires in open places, clustering like bees in the small squares, everywhere apparent in the foreground and divined in the distance. From somewhere came the strains of 'Yankee Doodle.' A gust of wind blew out the folds of the stars and stripes, fastened above some regimental headquarters. The city of tents and of frame structures hasty and crude, of fires in open places, of Butlers' shops and canteens and booths of strolling players, of chapels and hospitals, of fluttering flags and wandering music, of restless blue soldiers, oscillating like motes in some searchlight of the giants, persisted for a long distance. At last it died away; there came a quiet field or two, then the old Maryland town of Frederick."from The Long Roll Before Gone with the Wind exploded into print, Mary Johnston's The Long Roll was one of the definitive novels about the Civil War. Unlike Mitchell's novel of Southern aristocracy, however, Johnston sets her tale among the fighting armies. The Long Roll begins with secession and ends with the funeral of Stonewall Jackson. Our protagonists are Richard Cleave of Virginia, and General Jackson himself, who begins the novel as a major. Cleaves' action in the Confederate artillery alternates with Jackson's cavalry maneuvers to show a wide range of battle experience and combat effectiveness. Johnston peels away some of the historical romance of the cavalry and shows how vital artillery was in the battles. No less significant, she pays close attention to the importance of planning and patience, and the role of roads, rail, horse, and boat, mixing all of these elements with descriptions of raw courage and reckless abandon. As the narrative follows Cleave and Jackson, we are led through the most decisive engagements in the years of Confederate supremacy: Manassas, The Seven Days, Fredericksburg, Malvern Hill, and Sharpsburg. The Long Roll brings alive the differing motives for secession and war, and eerily evokes the suspicion and battered consciences of both North and South.

目次

Chapter 1. The Botetourt Resolutions Chapter 2. The Hilltop Chapter 3. Three Oaks Chapter 4. Greenwood Chapter 5. Thunder Run Chapter 6. By Ashby's Gap Chapter 7. The Dogs of War Chapter 8. A Christening Chapter 9. Winchester Chapter 10. Lieutenant McNeil Chapter 11. "As Joseph Was a Walking" Chapter 12. "The Bath and Romney Trip" Chapter 13. Fool Tom Jackson Chapter 14. The Iron Clads Chapter 15. Kernstown Chapter 16. Rude's Hill Chapter 17. Cleave and Judith Chapter 18. McDowell Chapter 19. The Flowering Wood Chapter 20. Front Royal Chapter 21. Steven Dagg Chapter 22. The Valley Pike Chapter 23. Mother and Son Chapter 24. The Foot Cavalry Chapter 25. Ashby Chapter 26. The Bridge at Port Republic Chapter 27. Judith and Stafford Chapter 28. The Longest Way Round Chapter 29. The Nine-Mile Road Chapter 30. At the President's Chapter 31. The First of the Seven Days Chapter 32. Gaines's Mill Chapter 33. The Heel of Achilles Chapter 34. The Railroad Gun Chapter 35. White Oak Swamp Chapter 36. Malvern Hill Chapter 37. A Woman Chapter 38. Cedar Run Chapter 39. The Field of Manassas Chapter 40. A Gunner of Pelham's Chapter 41. The Tollgate Chapter 42. Special Orders, No. 191 Chapter 43. Sharpsburg Chapter 44. By the Opequon Chapter 45. The Lone Tree Hill Chapter 46. Fredericksburg Chapter 47. The Wilderness Chapter 48. The River

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