Brilliant and devout, William Porcher DuBose (1836-1918) considered himself a man of thought rather than of action. During the Civil War, he discovered that he was both. Published for the first time, these previously unknown letters of DuBose chronicle his Civil War actions with two celebrated South Carolina units and make an important contribution to the literature and history of the war.

Wartime correspondence by a South Carolina native who would become a leading Episcopal theologian