The Fremantle Diary: A Journal of the ConfederacyPaperback, 6 February 2001

This is a fascinating primary document of the Civil War, the diary of English Colonel James Fremantle, who kept this engaging account of his tour of the Confederacy in 1863. He met a who's-who of the South: Lee, Davis, Stuart, Johnston, Longstreet, and many others, his descriptions culminating at Gettysburg, a battle which Fremantle viewed practically at Lee's elbow. Historian Walter Lord provides an introduction and extensive notes for the modern reader.