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Ashes Over Virginia: Memoirs of a German Volunteer in Robert E. Lee's Army
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ISBN13: 9798257654794
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 16 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 16 2026
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
They were eight friends. They sought adventure and found hell. Only one returned to tell the tale.
New Orleans, 1861. Above the black waters of Lake Pontchartrain, a comet hangs in the sky like a flaming sword. For eight young men, including a German immigrant, it seems to be the beacon of a glorious new beginning. Intoxicated by wine, youthful recklessness, and love for their new home in the South, they join the legendary Washington Artillery. They march off to war as if to a festival, with fresh gray uniforms and songs on their lips. But the dream of quick glory is shattered by the brutal reality of the Virginia battlefields. From the icy horror before the stone wall at Fredericksburg, across the bloody Wheatfield at Gettysburg, and down into the steaming, corpse-filled Crater at Petersburg-the unnamed narrator and his comrades witness their world consumed in a firestorm. The elegant sons of the Crescent City are reduced to shadows of their former selves, fighting in the mud against hunger, cold, and madness. One by one, they are torn from their midst: the laughing giant Jules; the gentle Creole Henri, who dreams of orange blossoms; and the wise Professor, who tries to explain the incomprehensible through the logic of history. At the end of the long march to Appomattox, only one remains. A German, who in a foreign land becomes the last witness of a lost generation. Ashes Over Virginia is a sweeping, deeply moving epic about friendship, sacrifice, and the slow death of an illusion. Based on the true, almost forgotten records Von Achten der Letzte of a German volunteer in Robert E. Lee's army.
New Orleans, 1861. Above the black waters of Lake Pontchartrain, a comet hangs in the sky like a flaming sword. For eight young men, including a German immigrant, it seems to be the beacon of a glorious new beginning. Intoxicated by wine, youthful recklessness, and love for their new home in the South, they join the legendary Washington Artillery. They march off to war as if to a festival, with fresh gray uniforms and songs on their lips. But the dream of quick glory is shattered by the brutal reality of the Virginia battlefields. From the icy horror before the stone wall at Fredericksburg, across the bloody Wheatfield at Gettysburg, and down into the steaming, corpse-filled Crater at Petersburg-the unnamed narrator and his comrades witness their world consumed in a firestorm. The elegant sons of the Crescent City are reduced to shadows of their former selves, fighting in the mud against hunger, cold, and madness. One by one, they are torn from their midst: the laughing giant Jules; the gentle Creole Henri, who dreams of orange blossoms; and the wise Professor, who tries to explain the incomprehensible through the logic of history. At the end of the long march to Appomattox, only one remains. A German, who in a foreign land becomes the last witness of a lost generation. Ashes Over Virginia is a sweeping, deeply moving epic about friendship, sacrifice, and the slow death of an illusion. Based on the true, almost forgotten records Von Achten der Letzte of a German volunteer in Robert E. Lee's army.
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