A Rebel's Recollections: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Rebel's Recollections, credited to George Eggleston, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Rebel's Recollections by George Eggleston. Read in English by Lee Smalley George Cary Eggleston's Civil War memoir begins with a separate essay on the living conditions and political opinions of Virginia’s citizenry before secession. The body of the work contains vivid descriptions and accounts of the men and women of the South during the time of the Confederacy. Eggleston praises its war heroes, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Jeb Stuart, but is highly critical of Jefferson Davis and of his government’s inefficiencies, red-tape, and favoritism. The book concludes with the war's end and a tribute to the character of the newly freed slaves. This informative and engaging work, much of which appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, enjoyed great popularity throughout the country. Originally published in 1874, it went through four editions by 1905. ( Lee Smalley)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Rebel's Recollections
• Author credits: George Eggleston
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 13
• Listed recording duration: 5:32:24

Track guide

1. 01 - Prefaces of 1874 and 1905 — 7:35
2. 02 - Part 1: The Old Regime in the Old Dominion — 21:59
3. 03 - Part 2: The Old Regime in the Old Dominion — 18:45
4. 04 - Part 3: The Old Regime in the Old Dominion — 18:12
5. 05 - Ch. 1: The Mustering — 28:56
6. 06 - Ch. 2: The Men Who Made the Army — 28:16
7. 07 - Ch. 3: The Temper of the Women — 20:21
8. 08 - Ch. 4: Of the Time When Money Was ''Easy'' — 32:21
9. 09 - Ch. 5 The Chevalier of the Lost Cause — 31:05
10. 10 - Ch. 6: Lee, Jackson, and Some Lesser Worthies — 31:06
11. 11 - Ch. 7: Some Queer People — 24:01
12. 12 - Ch. 8: Red Tape — 37:05
13. 13 - Ch. 9: The End, and After — 32:42

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