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"The fame of Pickett's charge...has resounded through the world... We came so close to the...Yankees that I emptied my revolver upon them, and we were still advancing when they threw forward a column to attack our unprotected left flank. I feel no shame in recording that out of this corner the men without waiting for orders turned and fled, for the bravest soldiers cannot endure to be shot at simultaneously from the front and side. They knew that to remain, or to advance, meant wholesale death or captivity. The Yankees had a fair opportunity to kill us all, and why they did not do it I cannot tell. ...In our orderly and sullen retreat...I heard the men saying mournfully, "If Old Jack had been here, it wouldn't have been like this"; and though I said nothing I entertained the same opinion."

—Wayland Fuller Dunaway
Reminiscences of a Rebel


At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Wayland Fuller Dunaway left his college classroom and entered the ranks of the men who fought in the bloodiest war ever waged on the North American continent. He spent the war as an infantryman in the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia, first as a private soldier and later as a young lieutenant, a captain commanding a company, and finally as a staff officer.





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Example content imageReminiscences of a Rebel: The True Adventures of a Confederate Soldier


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by Wayland Fuller Dunaway
Introduction by David Little

Why did a Union-loving, secession-opposing young college student volunteer to defend the Confederacy and fight determinedly for her cause?

In April 1861, upon the outbreak of Civil War in the United States, Wayland Fuller Dunaway left his college classroom and entered the ranks of the men who fought the bloodiest war ever waged on the North American continent. A Captain in the Army of Northern Virginia, he marched hundreds of miles in Stonewall Jackson’s command; saw Generals Lee and Longstreet; was among the first soldiers to fight at Gettysburg, where he also participated in Pickett's Charge; and fought against the lines of strangers in blue who, no matter how many times they were defeated, always returned to invade his beloved Virginia.

We have no time machine with which to visit the America of 1861, but Captain Dunaway's “humble narrative of an inconsequential participant” in the Civil War shines a light back through the mists of time to show what we were like as a people – how we fought, how we thought, and how we treated our friends and enemies.

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