February 2023 MBR The Civil War Shelf

The Civil War Shelf

The Military Memoirs of a Confederate Line Officer
John C. Reed, author
William R. Cobb, editor
Savas Beatie
PO Box 4527, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
www.savasbeatie.com
9781611215144, $19.95, PB, 192pp

https://www.amazon.com/Military-Memoirs-Confederate-Line-Officer/dp/1611215145

Synopsis: John C. Reed fought through the entire Civil War as an officer in the 8th Georgia Infantry, most of it with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The Princeton graduate was wounded at least twice (Second Manassas and Gettysburg), promoted to captain during the Wilderness fighting on May 6, 1864, and led his company through the balance of the Overland Campaign, throughout the horrific siege of Petersburg, and all the way to the Appomattox surrender on April 9, 1865.

John Reed's "The Military Memoirs of a Confederate Line Officer" is a perceptive and articulate account filled with riveting recollections of some of the war's most intense fighting. Reed offers strong opinions on a wide variety of officers and topics. This outstanding memoir (judiciously edited and annotated by William R. Cobb) is published here in full for the first time.

Critique: "The Military Memoirs of a Confederate Line Officer: Captain John C. Reed's Civil War from Manassas to Appomattox" is a valuable and informative resource certain to become a prized addition to personal, community, and academic library American Civil War History & Biography collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.

Editorial Note: William R. "Ron" Cobb is a retired engineer and management consultant He is also a descendant of a Confederate private who fought in the 59th Georgia, a sister regiment to the 8th Georgia. This is his first Civil War-related book.

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