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|
 Fishing
on Deep River is the Civil War Memoir of Pvt. Samuel Baldwin Dunlap, C.S.A.,
a DeKalb resident, who at seventeen left behind his classes at the
Bloomingdale Academy in Buchanan County, Missouri, and enrolled in the
Missouri State Guard, as his brothers, James Wallace and Robert Dunlap,
had done. The
decision set him upon a path that would ultimately take him into the
Confederate States Army and deposit him a thousand miles from home on Deep
River in North Carolina. By the time he saw Northwest Missouri again four
years later, he had been in the Battle of Blue Mills Landing, the Battle
of Lexington, the Battle of Pea Ridge, the battles at Luka, Corinth,
Hatchie's Bridge, Port Gibson, Big Black River, Champion's Hill,
Vicksburg, Atlanta, Franklin, and Murfreesboro.
Sam writes from a private's perspective as a cannoneer, detailing the
endless marches and camping experiences in between battles. The reader
meets Sam's mess-mates, laughs at the jokes the "boys" play on one
another, and shudders at Sam's misery when he is the one responsible for
getting his brother Caldwell to the surgeon following the Battle at
Kennesaw Mountain, and when he walks the battlefield at Franklin to
witness the carnage after one of the shortest, but bloodiest defeats for
the Confederacy.
Fishing on Deep River is
available in the St. Joseph Museum gift shop and in area bookstores. The
retail price is $28. [Contributed by St. Joseph Museums,
Inc.]
St. Joseph Museum [Web
Site]
3406 Frederick Avenue, St. Joseph, MO 816-232-8471 |
