How Long to Read Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson

How Long Does it Take to Read Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 31 minutes to read Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson by Captain Henry E. Handerson

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Description

Henry E. Handerson, a tutor from the Western Reserve of Ohio, fifteen miles east of Cleveland, enlisted in the Confederate army on June 17, 1861...Handerson was not an ordinary soldier. His memoir is the account of a Northerner—who after only two years of residency in antebellum Louisiana decided to cast his lot with the Confederacy. ...Already a member of a local home guard company, the twenty-four-year-old Ohio-born Handerson was quickly enrolled as a private in the Stafford Guards, later Company B, of the Ninth Louisiana Infantry. The Ninth was first bloodied at the Battle of Front Royal, Virginia, on May 23, 1862, in a brisk fight with the Union First Maryland Infantry. As part of Stonewall Jackson’s command, the regiment and Handerson marched and fought up and down the length of the Shenandoah Valley before moving down to Richmond to participate in the bloody Seven Days Battle. Handerson took part in the Fredericksburg battle, and later in the spring of 1863, was wounded in the neck at Chancellorsville. Lieutenant Handerson recovered from his wound just in time to reach Gettysburg on the last day of the battle there. In the Battle of the Wilderness, while carrying a dispatch, Handerson ran into an advancing battle line and was taken prisoner...and confined under poor living conditions, in a stockade in the direct line of fire from the Confederates at Charleston. Surviving this ordeal, Handerson wound up the war at Fort Pulaski, Georgia. Handerson’s memoirs and his letters give a sympathetic picture of war and life in the Confederate army as seen through the eyes of a Northerner who lacked the emotional involvement of the native-born Southerners. His account of service with the army of Northern Virginia and as a prisoner of war is of particular value regarding the everyday details and incidents of a soldier’s life. Important figures and Confederate heroes are treated fairly but objectively by this keen-eyed observer.-Edward Cunningham

How long is Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson?

Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson by Captain Henry E. Handerson is 147 pages long, and a total of 37,779 words.

This makes it 50% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 26 minutes to read Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson aloud.

What Reading Level is Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson?

Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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