<p>The author of this book, Arthur James Lyon Fremantle, has, perhaps, achieved more renown in recent years than at any time since the publication of his literary efforts. Those familiar with the film Gettysburg will recall the unusual figure of a British Guards officer attired (inaccurately) in his full dress Guardsman's scarlet uniform among the ranks of the Virginians at the famous and pivotal battle. The cinema may have taken its usual liberties, but the character was firmly based in fact and was none other than the Fremantle himself. The British Empire felt no need to come down strongly on either side of the conflict between the States, but its support for the Confederacy was both implicit and occasionally obvious. Fremantle wanted to see the war at first hand and so he traveled to America and accompanied the Confederate forces--actually unglamorously in mufti--in the field. His experiences brought him to the collision of Gettysburg, and history is indebted to Fremantle for the observations of a comparatively impartial military man on these monumental times and events.<BR></p>

Three Months in the Southern States (Civil War)

History

Fremantle, Arthur

Americas

Applewood Books

THREE MONTHS IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. APRIL, MAY, JUNE, 1863 In 1863, British army officer Lt. Col. Arthur Fremantle sailed to America to observe the ongoing Civil War at first hand. Fremantle reported on his experiences and the people he encountered during his three month stay in the South. Viewed now, more than one hundred and fifty years after they were written, Colonel Fremantle’s reports offer today’s historians a snap-shot of the times and of a European outsider’s view of the conflict as it was happening. As a historical document, the reports convey attitudes and language which represent their time and which would be rightly deemed unacceptable in the 21st Century.

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