<p>As the Mockingbird Sang is the diary of nineteen-year-old Robert Caldwell Dunlap, who left his plow, saddled his horse, and rode off at sundown on June 10, 1861, to find General Sterling Price’s army. During the next three years, Caldwell logged his personal experiences in the Missouri State Guard and then as a private in the Confederate States Army. Caldwell’s entries describe Missouri’s first major Battle of Wilson’s Creek; the Battle of Lexington and its unique hemp bale charge; the Battle of Pea Ridge; his travels south and east across a land foreign, but connected to him politically, where he witnessed some of the South’s fiercest fighting. In June 1864, Caldwell became separated from his personal diary, and it would be 27 years before it was returned to him. Author and researcher Suzanne Staker Lehr brings together the diary with an overview of border state Missouri’s history leading up to the war, the saga of the diary while out of Caldwell’s hands, the summary of his wounding during the Atlanta Campaign, and her historical annotations in As the Mockingbird Sang.</p>

As the Mockingbird Sang: Civil War Diary of Pvt. Robert Caldwell Dunlap, C.S.A.

Suzanne Staker Lehr

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<p>Fishing on Deep River is the Civil War Memoir of Pvt. Samuel Baldwin Dunlap, C.S.A., a DeKalb resident, who at seventeen left behind his classes at the Bloomingdale Academy in Buchanan County, Missouri, and enrolled in the Missouri State Guard, as his brothers, James Wallace and Robert Dunlap, had done. The decision set him upon a path that would ultimately take him into the Confederate States Army and deposit him a thousand miles from home on Deep River in North Carolina. By the time he saw Northwest Missouri again four years later, he had been in the Battle of Blue Mills Landing, the Battle of Lexington, the Battle of Pea Ridge, the battles at Iuka, Corinth, Hatchie s Bridge, Port Gibson, Big Black River, Champion s Hill, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Franklin, and Murfreesboro. Sam writes from a private s perspective as a cannoneer, detailing the endless marches and camping experiences in between battles. The reader meets Sam s mess-mates, laughs at the jokes the boys play on one another, and shudders at Sam s misery when he is the one responsible for getting his brother Caldwell to the surgeon following the Battle at Kennesaw Mountain, and when he walks the battlefield at Franklin to witness the carnage after one of the shortest, but bloodiest defeats for the Confederacy.</p>

Fishing on Deep River, Civil War Memoir of Private Samuel Baldwin Dunlap, C.S.A.

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As the Mockingbird Sang: Civil War Diary of Pvt. Robert Caldwell Dunlap, C.S.A.

Fishing on Deep River, Civil War Memoir of Private Samuel Baldwin Dunlap, C.S.A.