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Beckley, Alfred and Eby, Cecil D (Editor) and Wiles, Doris C (Annotator) and Arana, Eugenia B (Annotator)Biblio.com

Memoir of a West Pointer in Saint Augustine: 1824-1826; Reprinted without change of pagination from The Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. XLII No. 3 April 1964

1964rif. 89573St. Augutine FL: Saint Augustine Historical Society 1964. Reprint from he Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. XLII No. 3 April 1964. Wraps. Good. The format is approximately 6 inches by 9 inches. 2 307-320 pages plus covers. Front cover has an illustration. Footnotes. Illustrations. Cover and pages have some wear and soiling. This is No. 20 from the Saint Augustine Historical Society. Front cover has a title variant from the formal title page. Front cover reads Memoirs of a Westpointer in St. Augustine 1824-1826. Alfred Beckley May 26 1802 – May 26 1888 was a public official who founded Beckley West Virginia and a brigadier general in the Virginia militia during the American Civil War. He named the city of Beckley in honor of his father John James Beckleyab who was the first librarian of the United States Congress. Beckley was appointed to the United States Military Academy at West Point nominated for West Point by William Henry Harrison and President James Monroe; he entered on September 25 1819 and graduated on July 1 1823 ninth in a graduating class of 35. This class started with 86 cadets in 1819. He was in the army for 13 years serving the entire time as an artillery officer in Pennsylvania Florida Virginia and New York. In 1834–1835 after legal disputes Beckley received the title to 56679 acres his father had owned in western Virginia. In order to manage his inherited estates Beckley resigned his officer's commission on October 24 1836. He then settled in Fayette County now Raleigh County West Virginia which was then part of Virginia finding it a "perfect wilderness". His home named Wildwood was built in 1835–1836 expanded in 1874 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Beckley returned to military service as a brigadier general in the Virginia Militia from 1849 to 1861; serving out of loyalty to his state even though he strongly opposed its secession from the Union. By summer 1861 Beckley was in charge of the 12th Brigade of Virginia militia against Union troops at Cotton Hill West Virginia in the Kanawha Valley. This region was largely pro-Union and his militia was not highly motivated so Wise condemned Beckley's unit in August 1861. Thus it only served until October 1861 contributing little to the Confederate cause. He officially resigned his commission on February 8 1862. Returning to Union-occupied Beckley he surrendered to the Union officer in charge Rutherford B. Hayes on March 16–17 1862. He was then arrested by the Union army on April 3 1862 and sent first to the Atheneum prison camp near Wheeling West Virginia and then to Camp Chase near Columbus Ohio as a prisoner of war. He claimed that he was really pro-Union but had simply been loyal to Virginia and had severed all ties with the Confederacy. He was released on June 18 1862 and arrived back in Raleigh County on June 26 1862. Cecil DeGrotte Eby Jr. was a retired professor of English He was born in Charles Town West Virginia. Eby earned a Bachelor of Arts from Shepherd College in 1950 a Master of Arts from Northwestern University in 1951 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958. He also earned an honorary A.B. from Western Maryland College in 1988. Eby served in the 16th fleet of the U.S. Navy from 1945-46. He then entered graduate school to prepare himself for an academic career. Eby was an assistant professor of English at James Madison University in Harrisonburg Virginia 1957-60. He then joined the faculty of Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia where he remained until 1965. Eby spent the remainder of his academic career at the University of Michigan 1965-95 where he retired as professor of English. During his career Eby wrote 9 critically acclaimed books. Subjects range from the U.S. Civil War “The Old South Illustrated” 1959 University of North Carolina Press; “Porte Crayon: The Life of David H. Strother” 1973 University of North Carolina Press; and “A Virginia Yankee in the Civil War” 1961 University of North Carolina Press to the Spanish Civil War “The Siege of the Alcazar” 1965 Random House; “Between the Bullet and the Lie” 1969 Holt Rinehart & Winston; and “Comrades and Commissars: The Lincoln Battalion in Spain” 2006 Penn State Press; to the 1832 conflict between the United States and Native Americans “That Disgraceful Affair: The Black Hawk War” 1973 Duke University Press to World War II “Hungary at War: Civilians and Soldiers in World War II” 2003 Penn State Press and how popular literature paved the way for World War I “The Road to Armageddon: The Martial Spirit in English Popular literature 1870-1914” 1988 Duke University Press. Eby also published numerous academic articles in outlets such as American Literature American Quarterly Michigan Quarterly Review and the New England Quarterly. In addition to his scholarly accomplishments Eby was very active in the Historical Society of Jefferson County West Virginia. He frequently contributed historical non-fiction essays and articles related to the local history of Jefferson County where Eby spent his formative years. Saint Augustine Historical Society paperback

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