Edward Alexander Moore

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Edward Alexander Moore

b. 1842

Best known for a vivid Civil War memoir, this Virginia artilleryman wrote from direct experience, giving readers a ground-level view of life under Stonewall Jackson. His account remains one of the better-known personal narratives from the Confederate side of the war.

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The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

by Edward Alexander Moore

About the author

Born in 1842, Edward Alexander Moore is remembered chiefly for The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson, first published in 1907. Library of Congress records list him as the book's author, and later catalog records consistently identify him as living from 1842 to 1916.

Moore served as a private in the Rockbridge Artillery of Virginia during the American Civil War. A battlefield history of the unit notes that he had been a student at Washington College in Lexington before enlisting and that he joined the battery during the Valley Campaign of 1862.

His memoir is valued for its firsthand, plainspoken account of campaigning and soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia. For readers interested in personal narratives of the Civil War, Moore offers the perspective of a rank-and-file cannoneer rather than a general or statesman.