Download or read book Confederate Echoes written by Albert Theodore Goodloe, M D and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. T. Theodore served in the Alabama 35th Infantry Regiment, Company D. He entered the Confederate service in April, 1862, as third lieutenant and the same year he was promoted to first lieutenant, for gallantry; he served through the war, and in 1868 entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, as an itinerant preacher. This book was published in 1907 as a first hand account of the war. The 35th fought throughout the war with the Army of Tennessee including the battles leading up to Vicksburg, the Atlanta Campaign, Franklin and Nashville and surrendered at Bentonville. We have added some photographs, lists of battles, biographical sketches of the commanders of the 35th and an index to the men who served with Goodloe in the 35th Alabama. This book is a well-written firsthand account with a focus on the Western Theater of the war, for which there is relatively little available. From the Preface: As to the propriety of publishing a book of this kind at this remote period from the overthrow of the Confederate States of America by Lincoln's soldiers of "every tribe and nation," some persons will consider that it is a mistake, inasmuch as it is calculated to arouse afresh the animosities of the former days of wrath and blood in this country. This need not be the effect of it, and is not likely to be among fair-minded and intelligent people anywhere, in the North or in the South. But be that as it may, must we fail on any account to show to our offspring and to the world at large what we were, what we undertook, and what the significance of our undertaking was in all its bearings; and thus allow all who may so desire to see with our eyes, as it were, what we beheld while struggling to be disengaged from our despotic pursuers, and to establish an independent nationality of our own apart from them?