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A Southern Soldier's Letters Home
The Civil War Letters of Samuel Burney, Army of Northern Virginia
Nat Turner, editor
The Civil War letters of a college graduate, veteran of Chancellorsville, and member of Thomas R. R. Cobb's Georgia Legion
Samuel A. Burney, born in April 1840, was the son of Thomas Jefferson Burney and Julia Shields Burney. He graduated from Mercer University (then at Penfield, Georgia) in 1860. He joined the Panola Guards, an infantry component of Thomas R. R. Cobb's Georgia Legion in July 1861. For the next four years he served in the Army of Northern Virginia both in Virginia and in Tennessee. Burney was wounded at Chancellorsville in May 1863, and as a result of his wound he was placed on disability in March 1864 and served the remainder of the war on commissary duty in southwest Georgia.
After the war Burney returned to Mercer's school of theology, was ordained into the Baptist ministry, and served as pastor of several churches in Morgan County, and was pastor of the Madison Baptist Church until shortly before his death in 1896.
These letters of a college graduate written to his wife--Sarah Elizabeth Shepherd--are lyrical and beautifully written. Burney describes battles, camp life, theology, and the day-to-day dreariness of life in the army. This is an astounding collection of letters for anyone interested in the Civil War or the South.
Nat S. Turner is a native of Covington, Georgia and is a graduate of Georgia Tech. He was a commissioned officer in the US Navy. He is an avid fly fisherman and resides with his wife in Gainesville, Georgia.
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