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George Little
1838–1924
A physician, Civil War veteran, and memoirist from Alabama, this writer left behind a firsthand record of 19th-century life in Tuscaloosa and of Confederate military service. His work is valued today for its vivid local memory and eyewitness detail.
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A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A.
by George Little, James Robert Maxwell
About the author
Born in 1838 and dying in 1924, he was an Alabama doctor and writer closely associated with Tuscaloosa. Surviving library and catalog records connect him with Memoirs of George Little (published in Tuscaloosa in 1924) and with A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A., a work based on memory and wartime notes.
That history was written with James Robert Maxwell and recounts the service of Lumsden's Battery during the American Civil War. In the Project Gutenberg edition, George Little is specifically credited with the section covering the unit's story from its organization in November 1861 to October 15, 1863, giving the book the weight of firsthand experience.
What makes him interesting as an author is the mix of personal memory, local history, and military recollection. Rather than writing polished literary fiction, he preserved pieces of Alabama's past from someone who had lived through them, which gives his books a direct and human voice.