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Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of the War
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Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of the War Paperback - 1998

by John Cooke; Introduction by Emory M. Thomas

First published in 1867, WEARING OF THE GRAY contains sparkling vignettes that display an excellent eye for local color and the picaresque, a wry sense of humor, and a quick grasp of character. His military perspective and writer's talent "give his wartime sketches a combination of validity and vitality almost unmatched in the literature of the Civil War" (CIVIL WAR HISTORY). 10 photos.


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John Esten Cooke was a writer, not a fighter, and yet he enjoyed (in every sense of the word) a remarkable and extensive Civil War career that took him from John Brown's raid to General Lee's surrender and put him in close touch with some of the greatest commanders in American history, most notable his much-admired cousin-in-law, J.E.B. Stuart. Wearing of the Gray, published in 1867, contains Cooke's best writing on the war - vignettes that display an eye for local color and the picaresque, a wry sense of humor, and a quick grasp of character. It includes eleven vivid portraits of both famous figures - such as Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, P.G.T. Beauregard, John Singleton Mosby, and Jubal Early - and less famous, as well as stories and sketches based on Cooke's experiences. Though Cooke tends to romanticize the past - as evinced in his merry rendition of Stuart's cavalry campaign in the summer of 1863, an event most participants remembered as nightmarish - he is equally capable, for example, of capturing with moving and stark simplicity what the surrender at Appomattox meant to the Confederates present there.

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  • Title Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of the War
  • Author John Cooke; Introduction by Emory M. Thomas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st pr of this
  • Pages 572
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher LSU Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-01-01
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9780807122167 / 0807122165
  • Weight 1.53 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.52 x 1.24 in (21.51 x 14.02 x 3.15 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1851-1899
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Topical: Civil War
  • Library of Congress subjects Confederate States of America - Biography, United States - History - Civil war,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97030013
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

John Esten Cooke (1830-1886), a native of Virginia, earned more money than any other southern writer before 1870. He published twenty-nine books in his lifetime, including biographies of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and numerous historical novels.

Emory M. Thomas is Regents Professor of History at the University of Georgia and the author of, among other works, Robert E. Lee: A Biography and Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital.

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