Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander

Commander of the artillery in Longstreet’s Corps at Gettysburg at the advanced age of twenty-eight, Alexander was an engineer, artillerist and staff officer whose lengthy recollections provide a rich and varied account of virtually all the major engagements in the Eastern theatre of the Civil War, in nearly all of which he was personally involved. His closeness to the senior figures of the Army of Northern Virginia and his discussion of operations and personalities with candour and clarity make this an unrivalled Confederate perspective on the Civil War and ranks it as one of the key participant memoirs to emerge from that conflict.