From Dakota to Dixie : George Buswell's Civil War /
"The journals of George W. Buswell, a young Minnesotan who served in both the Dakota War (1862-1863) and the Western Theater of the Civil War (1863-1865). Relating experiences as a member of the 7th Minnesota Infantry and the US 68th Colored Infantry, Buswell takes readers through the Dakota Wa...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2025.
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| Series: | Nation divided.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.25291746 |
| Summary: | "The journals of George W. Buswell, a young Minnesotan who served in both the Dakota War (1862-1863) and the Western Theater of the Civil War (1863-1865). Relating experiences as a member of the 7th Minnesota Infantry and the US 68th Colored Infantry, Buswell takes readers through the Dakota War, into Union prisons, onto picket lines where he searched the bodies of Confederate women suspected of smuggling, and into an African American regiment that saw both field and garrison service in the Western Theater"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813952796 0813952794 9780813952772 9780813952789 |