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William A. Fletcher was a Private in the Confederate Army during America’s Civil War who joined the famed Texas brigade under Stonewall Jackson in 1861. Fletcher saw action at Second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Chancellorsville and Chickamauga. He was wounded several times and escaped from a moving Union prison train before the South’s surrender. In 1907, he published Rebel Private, a powerfully evocative account of his exploits and detailed recollections that spares none of the horror, courage or absurdity of war.
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Rebel Private: Front and Rear
by William A. Fletcher
The recent rediscovery of Rebel Private: Front and Rear, effectively lost for decades, marks an authentic publishing event in the literature of the Civil War. A rare insight into the conflict from the point of view of a Confederate Army enlisted man, William A. Fletcher's compelling memoir has been hailed by historians as a classic and indispensable key to understanding the Southern perspective. Margaret Mitchell even described the volume as her single most valuable source of research for Gone With the Wind.
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