Download or read book Memoirs of a Confederate Staff Officer written by Gilbert Moxley Sorrel and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorrel's memoir, "Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer", was published posthumously, in 1905. Historian Douglas Southall Freeman deemed Sorrel's book one of the best accounts of the personalities of the major players in the Confederacy, characterized by "a hundred touches of humor and revealing strokes of swift characterization."