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Dear Mother,
I was very glad to hear from home this morning. It is the first time since I left Otterville. We marched from Sedalia 120 miles....I almost feel anxious to be in a battle & yet I am almost afraid. I feel very brave sometimes & think if I should be in an engagement, I never would leave the field alive unless the stars & stripes floated triumphant. I do not know how it may be. If there is a battle & I should fall, tell with pride & not with grief that I fell in defense of liberty. Pray that I may be a true soldier.
Not since Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage have the trials and tribulations of a private soldier of the Civil War been told with such beguiling force. The Red Badge of Courage, however, was fiction. This story is true.
In Testament, Benson Bobrick draws upon an extraordinarily rich but hitherto untapped archive of material to create a continuous narrative of how that war was fought and lived. Here is virtually the whole theater of conflict in the West, from its beginnings in Missouri, through Kentucky and Tennessee, to the siege of Atlanta under Sherman, as experienced by Bobrick's great-grandfather, Benjamin W. ("Webb") Baker, an articulate young Illinois recruit. Born and raised not far from the Lincoln homestead in Coles County, Webb had stood in the audience of one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, become a staunch Unionist, and answered one of Abraham Lincoln's first calls for volunteers. The ninety-odd letters on which his story is based are fully equal to the best letters the war produced, especially by a common soldier; but their wry intelligence, fortitude, and patriotic fervor also set them apart with a singular and still-undying voice.
In the end, that voice blends with the author's own, as the book becomes a poignant tribute to his great-grandfather's life -- and to all the common soldiers of the nation's bloodiest war.
- Sales Rank: #2493512 in Books
- Published on: 2003-09-23
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.44" h x 1.00" w x 5.63" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Civil War buffs will relish this extraordinary new history from Bobrick (Wide as the Waters), based on a collection of letters written by his great-grandfather, Benjamin "Webb" Baker. The letters date from 1861, when the 19-year-old enlisted in the Union army, to 1864, when he was honorably discharged a corporal. As a private of Company E of the 25th Regiment of Illinois Voluntary Infantry, Baker saw action at Pea Ridge, Ark.; Perryville, Ken.; Stones River, Tenn.; and Chickamauga, Ga.; and on Sherman's march to Atlanta. Repeatedly wounded, he was patched up and sent back to duty. That he survived the bad food, poor sanitary conditions and ghastly medical treatment (pus was considered a sign of health), let alone wounds sustained during battles that killed thousands, is remarkable. Webb's letters home are honest, affectionate and surprisingly good-natured considering what he endured. "We had a heavy skirmish in the evening....A ball struck John Hawkins square on the belt buckle. It made him grunt....He picked it up & is around every day now bragging that he is bullet proof," he wrote in 1862. Bobrick weaves excerpts of the correspondence throughout the narrative and includes his great-grandfather's letters in their entirety in an appendix to the book. This is a compelling story, rendered in vivid, graceful prose that should find an enthusiastic audience.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The soldier of this valuable book is Bobrick's great-grandfather, Benjamin ("Webb") Baker, of the 25th Illinois. Growing up in rural Charleston, Illinois, Webb enlisted in 1861 and served a full three years. He saw a great deal of action in the western theater, including Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, and the Atlanta campaign, as well as a lot of hard marching, short rations, bureaucracy, delayed pay, and officers and comrades who were as menacing as the rebels. He also lost some use of his left arm to wounds, and a brother and a stepbrother to death, but somehow managed not to lose weight, even on army rations. Bobrick weaves excerpts from Baker's expressive letters, most of them addressed to his mother, into his own excellent narrative continuum that conveys Baker's milieu and the progress of the war so clearly that even readers new to the subjects should be engrossed. Complete texts of the letters constitute part two of this worthy, betimes heart-rending addition to the Civil War literature. Roland Green
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Review
Frank J. Williams Chair, The Lincoln Forum From Pea Ridge to General Sherman's march to Atlanta, "Webb" Baker marched with the 25th Illinois Regiment. His letters home form a tapestry of a soldier in war....Benson Bobrick's superlative narrative enhances this great resource for a better understanding of our Civil War. -- Review
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PARALLEL UNIVERSES
By David S Case
I found this book especially valuable as Benson Boberick expertly wove the larger political and military history of the Civil War into the experience of one "common soldier". Bobrick's great grandfather, Benjamin W. ("Webb") Baker, may have been of humble rank, but in that only might he be called "common". As would be proven later, his letters reveal an exceptionally articulate, insightful and reflective young mind. After the war he turned from farming to graduate from the Illinois State Normal School, earn a doctorate in history from Illinois Western and distinguish himself as the president of two colleges.
My great grandfather, David Stanway, was English but seems to have lived in a parallel (if somewhat obverse) universe to that of Webb Baker. Like Webb, David enlisted for three years in August of 1861 and mustered out in the Fall (September) of 1854. He too was wounded twice, the last time seriously, as was Webb, in the left arm.
Four years older than Webb, David grduated from Normal School in Yipsylanti, Michigan, just before he enlisted. Owing to the extrordinary Union casualties and perhaps to his education and age David rose through the ranks fom private to captain. A couple of years after the war, somewhat the obverse of Webb, he turned from the life of a shopkeeper to that of a Missouri farmer.
David's 1st Michigan Regiment was attached to the Army of the Patomic, fighting in all the Eastern battles, while Webb fougt in the west and Sherman's Atlanta campaign. Like Webb, however, David often attended protestant services in camp and became a protestant church leader in later years.
David Stanway left two diaries of his war time experiences written between September 1863 and September 1864 together with about 24 letters he received from friends during roughly the same period. Similar to Webb Baker's letters, David Stanwway's diaries and the letters he receivd demonstrate a stoic heroism supporting a remakably articulate, informed and inquisitive mind. Webb Baker's letters and Benson Bobrick's book fill in the events from 1861 to 1863 that eluded David Stanway's written record and inspire me to carry my own great grand father's account further.
David Stanway Case
August 6, 2016
35 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Testament is a record of valor
By Robert Busko
Testament: A Soldier's Story of the Civil War by Benson Bobrick is one of the most insightful contributions to the ever growing body of work devoted to this war. There are other first hand accounts of combat and general living conditions faced by soldiers of both sides....far too many to elaborate here. However, there is something touching almost beyond words about the letters young Benjamin "Webb" Baker wrote his mother.
Benson Bobrick does a good job in weaving Webb's (Bobrick's great-grandfather) letters into a coherent narrative about the war. The narrative covers Webb's entire enlistment period from 1861 to his discharge in 1864. Civil War buffs will recognize the battles included: Pea Ridge, Perryville, Stone's River, Chickamauga, and finally the Atlanta victory. Perhaps of equal value are the letters themselves, neatly placed into an appendix at the end of the book...each included in their entirety for the casual reader to pour over and ponder.
Its all here, the descriptions of battle, of camp life, of marching,...insights into the officers that lead these men, and a general view of the times. The letters read true as anyone who has served in the military will recognize. Red tape is red tape no matter the century.
I encourage Civil War buffs to read Testament. If you haven't read much on the Civil War then this is a good book to start with.
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Civil War buffs will relish this extraordinary new history from Bobrick (Wide as the Waters), based on a collection of letters written by his great-grandfather, Benjamin "Webb" Baker. The letters date from 1861, when the 19-year-old enlisted in the Union army, to 1864, when he was honorably discharged a corporal. As a private of Company E of the 25th Regiment of Illinois Voluntary Infantry, Baker saw action at Pea Ridge, Ark.; Perryville, Ken.; Stones River, Tenn.; and Chickamauga, Ga.; and on Sherman's march to Atlanta. Repeatedly wounded, he was patched up and sent back to duty. That he survived the bad food, poor sanitary conditions and ghastly medical treatment (pus was considered a sign of health), let alone wounds sustained during battles that killed thousands, is remarkable. Webb's letters home are honest, affectionate and surprisingly good-natured considering what he endured. "We had a heavy skirmish in the evening....A ball struck John Hawkins square on the belt buckle. It made him grunt....He picked it up & is around every day now bragging that he is bullet proof," he wrote in 1862. Bobrick weaves excerpts of the correspondence throughout the narrative and includes his great-grandfather's letters in their entirety in an appendix to the book. This is a compelling story, rendered in vivid, graceful prose that should find an enthusiastic audience.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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