Class Year
2021
Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
12-4-2018
Department 1
Civil War Institute
Abstract
When I set out to pick a soldier for my first Killed at Gettysburg project, I did not know what I would find. I chose to research a Confederate soldier named William H. P. Ivey simply because he was born and raised on a farm, like me. As I did my research, I realized that Ivey’s life tells us a lot about the motivations and thoughts of a common southern soldier in the Civil War. Like most Confederate infantrymen, Ivey’s family was of the lower class and they were not slaveholders. Ivey, along with his brother Hinton, enlisted in the 8th Alabama on May 8th, 1861. [excerpt]
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This is the author's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Shoop, Isaac J., "A Common Soldier: William H. P. Ivey" (2018). The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History. 328.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/compiler/328
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This blog post originally appeared in The Gettysburg Compiler and was created by students at Gettysburg College.