Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
3-8-2012
Department 1
Civil War Era Studies
Abstract
You can imagine the terror in the young 21-year-old's eyes as he realized who was charging down the Cashtown Pike into Gettysburg on the 26th of June. You can feel the chill that might have run down his spine as he realized that the rebel army he had deserted, the one he had escaped by running to the Federal lines, was crashing down upon him again. And the deserter's fate during this war was simple: execution. [excerpt]
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Recommended Citation
Rudy, John M., "Confederates in the Dorm: Hidden In Plain Sight" (2012). Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public. 150.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/interpretcw/150
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Comments
Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public is written by alum and adjunct professor, John Rudy. Each post is his own opinions, musings, discussions, and questions about the Civil War era, public history, historical interpretation, and the future of history. In his own words, it is "a blog talking about how we talk about a war where over 600,000 died, 4 million were freed and a nation forever changed. Meditating on interpretation, both theory and practice, at no charge to you."