Edward Mott Robbins

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Edward Mott Robbins

Best known for a concise, firsthand memoir of the American Civil War, this Illinois veteran writes with the plainspoken detail of someone who lived every march and battle he describes. His account gives listeners an immediate sense of camp life, combat, and memory shaped over many years.

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Civil War Experiences, 1862-1865 Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Rome, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Averysboro, Bentonville

Civil War Experiences, 1862-1865 Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Buzzard Roost, Resaca, Rome, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Averysboro, Bentonville

by Edward Mott Robbins

About the author

Edward Mott Robbins was an American Civil War veteran whose best-known work is Civil War Experiences, 1862-1865. Project Gutenberg identifies him as the author of that memoir, a firsthand account centered on his service with the 78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry.

The book was written long after the war and looks back on major campaigns including Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Resaca, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, and Bentonville. What makes it memorable is its direct, unadorned voice: Robbins focuses less on grand theory than on what soldiers saw, endured, and remembered.

Available records also place him in Carthage, Illinois, and list his life dates as 1842 to 1921. Even with only a small published record surviving under his name, his memoir remains a valuable personal window into the Civil War from the perspective of an ordinary Union soldier.