{"product_id":"2940012709462","title":"The Red Acorn","description":"This ebook is complete with linked Table of Content making navigation quicker and easier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn McElroy (1846–1929) was an American printer, soldier, journalist and author, most known for writing the novel The Red Acorn and the four-volume Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, based upon his lengthy confinement in the Confederate Andersonville prison camp during the American Civil War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Red Acorn is based upon John McElroy's confinement in the Confederate Andersonville prison camp during the American Civil War. The name The Red Acorn comes from First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, a crimson acorn was worn on the breasts of its members, and borne on its battle flag.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Red Acorn centers on two young lovers separated by war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe name given this story is that made glorious by the valor and achievements of the splendid First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant soldiers, and borne upon their battle flags. There are few gatherings of men into which one can go to-day without finding some one wearing, as his most cherished ornament, a red acorn, frequently wrought in gold and studded with precious stones, and which tells that its wearer is a veteran of Mill Springs, Perryville, Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Atlanta, Jonesville, March to the Sea, and Bentonville.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Fourteenth Corps was the heart of the grand old Army of the Cumberland—an army that never knew defeat. Its nucleus was a few scattered regiments in Eastern Kentucky, in 1861, which had the good fortune to be commanded by Gen. George H. Thomas. With them he won the first real victory that blessed our arms. It grew as he grew, and under his superb leadership it was shaped and welded and tempered into one of the mightiest military weapons the world ever saw. With it Thomas wrung victory from defeat on the bloody fields of Stone River and Chickamauga; with it he dealt the final crushing blow of the Atlanta campaign, and with it defeat was again turned to victory at Bentonville.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe characters introduced into the story all belonged to or co-operated with the First Division of the Fourteenth Corps. The Corps' badge was the Acorn. As was the custom in the army, the divisions in each Corps were distinguished by the color of the badges—the First's being red, the Second's white, and the Third's blue. There was a time when this explanation was hardly necessary, but now eighteen years have elapsed since the Acorn flags fluttered victoriously over the last field of battle, and a generation has grown up to which they are but a tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. M.","brand":"WHITE DOG PUBLISHING","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152492937456,"sku":"2940012709462","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012709462_p0.jpg?v=1763571524","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012709462","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}