A Confederate Among Yankees

Captain R. P. Jennings, Part 9 – Jennings’ 20th year, war’s end & return home
  • William Hightower, a year older than Jennings when both enlisted in Company A of the 23rd Virginia. Hightower died as the result of a leg wound at Chancellorsville, two years later.
    William Hightower, a year older than Jennings when both enlisted in Company A of the 23rd Virginia. Hightower died as the result of a leg wound at Chancellorsville, two years later.
  • A Confederate Among Yankees
    A Confederate Among Yankees

    We’ve followed Richard Polk Jennings, a teenage boy from a well-off family in rural Virginia, as he became a hardened soldier, and as he survived battles where artillery and musket balls tore men apart, where men faced each other with bayonets and their hands, where men died of disease even faster than from “lead poisoning.” Jennings has been sick enough to be on leave several times, and he has be…