Johnny Reb and Billy Yank: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank, credited to Alexander Hunter, 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 Johnny Reb and Billy Yank by Alexander Hunter. Read in English by Barry Eads Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is an epic novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army from 1861 to 1865. The novel is noted for encapsulating most of the major events of the American Civil War, due to Hunter's obvious involvement in them. The "novel" is actually pulled from Hunter's own diaries during the war. He explains his reasons for publishing his accounts in the preface to the novel- "There were thousands of soldiers on both sides during the Civil War, who, at the beginning, started to keep a diary of daily events, but those who kept a record from start to finish can be counted on the fingers of one hand. I was so fortunate as to save most of my notes made during the four years of conflict, and in 1865, having no fixed pursuit in life, I spent most of the time in arranging and writing up these incidents of camp life while fresh in my memory. I have given in these pages veracious account of the life of a soldier in Lee's army...." The novel is then divided into two parts, the first part chronicling Hunter's service in the infantry up until the Battle of Chancellorsville, and the second part depicting his service in the Cavalry until the end of the war. (Introduction by Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
• Author credits: Alexander Hunter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 73
• Listed recording duration: 27:48:50

Opening tracks: first 24 of 73

1. 01 - Preface and Part 1, Chapter 1 — 7:29
2. 02 - Part 1, Chapter 2 — 10:13
3. 03 - Part 1, Chapter 3 — 29:32
4. 04 - Part 1, Chapter 4 — 8:46
5. 05 - Part 1, Chapter 5 — 14:35
6. 06 - Part 1, Chapter 6 — 16:12
7. 07 - Part 1, Chapter 7 — 39:56
8. 08 - Part 1, Chapter 8 — 8:56
9. 09 - Part 1, Chapter 9 — 30:48
10. 10 - Part 1, Chapter 10 — 32:49
11. 11 - Part 1, Chapters 11 and 12 — 14:24
12. 12 - Part 1, Chapters 13 and 14 — 21:36
13. 13 - Part 1, Chapter 15 — 22:09
14. 14 - Part 1, Chapter 16 — 11:44
15. 15 - Part 1, Chapter 17, Part A — 23:38
16. 16 - Part 1, Chapter 17, Part B — 26:06
17. 17 - Part 1, Chapter 18 — 22:30
18. 18 - Part 1, Chapters 19 and 20 — 27:22
19. 19 - Part 1, Chapter 21 — 31:48
20. 20 - Part 1, Chapter 22 — 31:55
21. 21 - Part 1, Chapter 23 — 30:31
22. 22 - Part 1, Chapter 24, Part A — 22:28
23. 23 - Part 1, Chapter 24, Part B — 22:37
24. 24 - Part 1, Chapters 25 and 26 — 33:05

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