~ A Test of Character ~
The Definitive History of the Civil War in South Georgia
Extensively researched by the author (a native of the region, with
generations-long local family ties) and over 25 years in the making,
“A Test of Character”
is both a
Military History
of the
Civil War in South Georgia
and a Social History
of its people in the years leading up to, during, and in the aftermath, of the
conflict.
Its
principal purpose is to present the war-time experiences of about 2,500 men who
served in two Confederate commands that were raised in the region and commanded
by local brothers,
Colonel Duncan L. Clinch, Jr. (4th
Georgia Cavalry) and
Captain N.
Bayard Clinch (Captain Clinch’s
Artillery Company). These commands, whose
service was mostly in the region of their origin, are seldom mentioned in books
about the period and are not well-known to most Civil War enthusiasts, including
many whose ancestors or their close kin served in them. The author hopes this
work will remedy that deficiency.
In
that an additional purpose
is to personalize the experiences of the
individual soldiers serving in the two units, the author has conducted
considerable research on the military and civil records of each soldier to
establish enough genealogical information on each of them to assure that each
soldier’s documented war-time experiences were accurately credited to the right
man, wherever that was supported by available records. These findings, which
include a summary of each individual soldier’s service record, are presented in
the searchable Microsoft Word data on the included CD, along with other
Appendices.
An adjunctive mission is to
also tell the story of the region’s inhabitants during this period of
unprecedented social upheaval, as well as to examine what their behavior during
those difficult times revealed about their fundamental character attributes,
hence the book’s title. That examination and the author’s observations on the
results are presented in the closing portions of the work.
Finally, the author has ventured out into the current public “mine-field”
of varying personal, and often controversial, opinions on the contribution that
the Southerners of the period, particularly the Confederates, made to the
current state of racism and other biases at work in modern American Society, and
offers his own conclusions on the legacy of the period.
This
heretofore largely unknown story is told in 500 pages of detailed narrative,
with an Index of soldiers’ names, and a like amount of searchable data in the
Appendices on the accompanying CD. Hard-bound with dust-cover. It’s a “must-have”
for those interested in the period and the region.
$55 per copy - includes Text, Appendices (CD),
shipping & handling.
Posted 12 January 2023
Send check and
mailing address to:
O.J. Hickox, Jr.
For
inquiries,
contact the author at:
Author is only accepting check payments.
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