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Arthur Peronneau Ford
A Confederate veteran from South Carolina, he left behind a firsthand account of everyday army life rather than a grand military history. His memoir offers a direct, personal window into the Civil War as lived by an ordinary private.
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Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army, and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life
by Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford
About the author
Born in 1843 and died in 1910, Arthur Peronneau Ford is known for Life in the Confederate Army, a memoir drawn from his experience as a private soldier in the Confederate Army. Records surfaced through library and public-domain sources identify him as the author of that work, which was later published with Marion Johnstone Ford.
His book stands out for its focus on personal experience: camp life, hardship, and the texture of Southern wartime life. For listeners interested in Civil War memoirs, his writing offers the perspective of someone recording what he saw and endured rather than trying to tell the whole war from above.
Biographical details beyond his military service and authorship are not well documented in the sources I could confirm, so the strongest picture that remains is of a veteran whose remembered experiences became a lasting historical narrative.