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All for the Union : the Civil War diary and letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes by Elisha Hunt Rhodes is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War . Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in  The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union."

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Author

Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Publisher

Vintage Books

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679738282

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Collections, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.7 / 5 (297 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14