Rebel at Large: The Diary of Confederate Deserter Philip Van Buskirk
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Rebel at Large: The Diary of Confederate Deserter Philip Van Buskirk

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Full Title

Rebel at Large: The Diary of Confederate Deserter Philip Van Buskirk
Author(s)

Philip Van Buskirk
Edition
ISBN

9780786454891, 9780786442935
Publisher

McFarland
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This diary is one of the most unusual produced during the Civil War because it contains very little about military life. Early in the war Van Buskirk abandoned his regiment, working as a schoolmaster, farmhand, and casual laborer. He wrote of the suffering civilians endured at the hands of contending armies. But he also found time to chronicle his fascination with handsome young lads he encountered during his life as a deserter–unwittingly providing modern readers an illuminating glimpse of class differences and sexual mores. Naval, social and sexual historians, in particular, will find much valuable source material.

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