Soldier and Scholar: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve and the Civil War (Publications of the Southern Texts Society).

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - One of America�s greatest classical scholars, Basil Lanneau Gilder sleeve (1831 - 1924) was also a Civil War journalist. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, and a selfdescribed �southerner beyond dispute,� he received his doctorate in Germany and returned to America an enthusiastic advocate of Greek scholarship. Like every male member of his immediate family (including his father), Gilder sleeve enlisted after Fort Sumter, but he continued to teach at the University ofVirginia during the winters. Frequenting Richmond during the war, this voung intellectual and passionate partisan who found the war, with its attendant social and political issues, as stimulating as his beloved classics. In Soldier and Scholar, editor Ward Briggs has assembled a revealing collection of Gildersleeve�s writings: autobiographical essays, sixty-three editorials he wrote for the Richmond Examiner during the war, and a series of his reflections upon the causes and effects of the Civil War thirty vears later. -- Unlike published Civil War diaries, the editorials do not merely record daily occurrences and impressions; they analyze mili-tarv, social, economic, and political events, setting them in a larger ethical and historical context. Infused with the rhetoric of Gilder sleeve�s classical training, these pieces are frequently vitriolic attacks not only on the evil and immoral Yankees, miscegenation, Jews, and critics of slaverv, but also on Jefferson Davis, his hapless Confederate administration, and the struggling Southern armies. -- In Gilder sleeve�s later writings, we see his impassioned championing of �The Good Cause� evolve into a nostalgia for the prewar South. He discusses general topics such as the Southern way of life and its code of honor, and the importance of a classical education. Inspired by Greek and Roman thinkers, Gildersleeve lived a life that aspired to both classical and Southern ideals. This collection, which offers a view of Gilder sleeve�s intellectual beliefs and his passions, should interest Southern historians, classicists, and Civil War buffs. ISBN 9780813917436