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Synopsis:
Cush was a mixture of corn meal, water, and bacon grease cooked over an open
fire by Confederate soldiers. That the editors have taken this title for the
book indicates the emotional impact of Sprott’s Civil War memoirs. Not only do
we march and eat this mixture with Sprott, but we witness with him the first
execution of Confederate deserters, the bewilderment and frustration of battling
infantrymen with what they considered the inane orders from above, and the
bravery - and the foolhardiness - that war inevitably brings. This memoir
follows the Sumter regiment from its first "training" sessions to its
duty in Mobile near the war’s end.
176
pages
ISBN
0-942979-55-9, Trade paper, $11.00
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