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This memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins detailing his years as a Confederate rifleman from the spring of 1861, when at a he volunteered for the 2d Mississippi Infantry, through the end of the war in 1865, when he was just twenty years old and maimed for life.

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The story is doubtless the most vivid record of a Confederate soldier's life that has been or will be written. [Hankins] gives in detail the most ludicrous events vividly as if a mature, gifted writer had kept a diary at the time, and his truly 'simple story' will create sympathetic interest. It is so devoid of bitterness that a man who served on the 'other side'... would sympathize with him in the hardships and privations of prison life and deplore that the government he served did not when it could render more humane service to him. - Confederate Veteran, 1912

Simple Story of a Soldier Life and Service in the 2d Mississippi Infantry Alabama Fire Ant

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    A Paperback by Samuel W. Hankins, John F. Marszalek

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 9/30/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817351571, 978-0817351571
      ISBN10: 0817351574
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This memoir was written in 1905 by 61-year-old Samuel W. Hankins detailing his years as a Confederate rifleman from the spring of 1861, when at a he volunteered for the 2d Mississippi Infantry, through the end of the war in 1865, when he was just twenty years old and maimed for life.

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      The story is doubtless the most vivid record of a Confederate soldier's life that has been or will be written. [Hankins] gives in detail the most ludicrous events vividly as if a mature, gifted writer had kept a diary at the time, and his truly 'simple story' will create sympathetic interest. It is so devoid of bitterness that a man who served on the 'other side'... would sympathize with him in the hardships and privations of prison life and deplore that the government he served did not when it could render more humane service to him. - Confederate Veteran, 1912

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