Title John Dooley's Civil War : an Irish American's journey in the First Virginia Infantry Regiment / edited by Robert Emmett Curran

Edition 1st ed Published Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxxi, 516 pages) : illustrations, map Series Voices of the Civil War Voices of the Civil War Contents pt. 1. Secession -- pt. 2. War -- pt. 3. Reconstruction Summary Among the finer soldier-diarists of the Civil War, John Edward Dooley first came to the attention of readers when an edition of his wartime journal, edited by Joseph Durkin, was published in 1945. That book, John Dooley, Confederate Soldier, became a widely used resource for historians, who frequently tapped Dooley & rsquo;s vivid accounts of Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, where he was wounded during Pickett & rsquo;s Charge and subsequently captured. As it happens, the 1945 edition is actually a much-truncated version of Dooley & rsquo;s original journal that fails to capture the full scope of his wartime experience & mdash;the oscillating rhythm of life on the campaign trail, in camp, in Union prisons, and on parole. Nor does it recognize how Dooley, the son of a successful Irish-born Richmond businessman, used his reminiscences as a testament to the Lost Cause. John Dooley & rsquo;s Civil War gives us, for the first time, a comprehensive version of Dooley & rsquo;s & ldquo;war notes, & rdquo; which editor Robert Emmett Curran has reassembled from seven different manuscripts and meticulously annotated. The notes were created as diaries that recorded Dooley & rsquo;s service as an officer in the famed First Virginia Regiment along with his twenty months as a prisoner of war. After the war, they were expanded and recast years later as Dooley, then studying for the Catholic priesthood, reflected on the war and its aftermath. As Curran points out, Dooley & rsquo;s reworking of his writings was shaped in large part by his ethnic heritage and the connections he drew between the aspirations of the Irish and those of the white South. In addition to the war notes, the book includes a prewar essay that Dooley wrote in defense of secession and an extended poem he penned in 1870 on what he perceived as the evils of Reconstruction. The result is a remarkable picture not only of how one articulate southerner endured the hardships of war and imprisonment, but also of how he positioned his own experience within the tragic myth of valor, sacrifice, and crushed dreams of independence that former Confederates fashioned in the postwar era Analysis "Multi-User" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Dooley, John, 1842-1873. SUBJECT Dooley, John, 1842-1873 Dooley, John, 1842-1873 fast Subject Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 1st. Johnson Island Prison -- Biography SUBJECT Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 1st fast Johnson Island Prison fast Subject Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Biography Irish American soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Biography Prisoners of war -- Ohio -- Johnson Island -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877) HISTORY -- General. Irish American soldiers Prisoners of war Soldiers SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140262 Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140264 Subject Ohio -- Johnson Island United States United States -- Confederate States of America Virginia Genre/Form Biographies History Personal narratives Form Electronic book Author Curran, Robert Emmett LC no. 2011021570 ISBN 9781572338302 157233830X 1280125047 9781280125041 9786613528902 6613528900

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