Johnny Reb: The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War Paperback – Coloring Book, October 1, 1993

Coloring book is pro-South and is suitable for teens and adults, not just for children. It is on par with adult coloring books. Text gives history of people, culture and battles. Includes uniforms and weapons. Excellent learning tool for basic information about the Confederate side of the war.

Great history coloring book

love the pictures and that it has information about the soldiers included.

This is more than a coloring book. It is actually well worth having just as it is. The illustrations are fine pen and ink drawings that can easily stand alone. Besides the soldiers and their uniforms, there are many representations of weapons and equipment used. The soldiers are also shown as they may have appeared in different periods of the war and progresses chronologically from nattily dressed volunteers in the front to ragged veterans at war's end. There is also a significant amount of text to explain the images.This is a book about the Southern soldier, his uniforms and gear. If you hark to the myth that he was an evil scourge upon the face of the earth, you won't want this book. If you want some reference for how these soldiers may have appeared, it will serve well keeping in mind it is a book of drawings limited in scope.It would be best for kids say, 10 and up or serve equally well for adults. For coloring, considering the detail, I would say colored pencils would be the best. One could also scan the pages and print images out for water color or perhaps chalking as well though I am not sure about that being unfamiliar with that medium. This is not a crayon book for toddlers. That would be a waste of it. The book does not in any way condemn, rather honoring the Southern soldier and of course, some will not like it for that. To each their own. You know now what to expect.There is one glaring, if debatable, error but it's restricted to the cover. It shows the soldiers with their bedrolls draped over their right shoulders. Though sometimes seen this way on old monuments, the roll should be, and is so inside the book, over the left shoulder. Draped over the right, it would (does, as a former reenactor I've tried it both ways) interfere with shouldering the musket. It does not interfere with accessing the cartridge box as some allege.Jay

Great book to have for any one geeting into reeacting. Tons of info about the the civil war

Great product for the money.

I give this coloring book to Toys for Tots and to older children that I know for Christmas presents.Johnny Reb: The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War by Alan Archambault, has a page on each of Latino Confederates and Indigenous Confederates, but no page on African Confederates, so I add my own page to the copies that I give. Here is the text of that page, and the caption for the illustration on that page.Free blacks served in the army and in home guard units from the beginning of the war. Some of the home guards who fought Sherman in his march to the sea, were free blacks. The highest ranking black Confederate soldier of whom there is record, was Captain George Frazier; he is buried at P.O.W. Camp Morton in Indiana. Approximately 20% of Confederate Navy men were black. At least two gunboat pilots were black. Some of the men who served in Tucker's Marine Brigade which fought ferociously and heroically near Richmond in the closing days of the war, were black seamen. A partisan band in Virginia, similar to but smaller than Col. Mosby's partisan band, was led by a free black. When Dr. Lewis Steiner of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, saw Stonewall Jackson's corps pass through Frederick, Md., in 1862, he estimated over 3,000 black soldiers in the corps. The Confederate government did not enlist slaves into the army until the last days of the war. They performed very little combat. However, from the beginning of the war, there had been a few slaves serving as soldiers in all the Confederate armies, because the captains and generals said it was O.K. even if the government did not. Many thousands of slaves worked as civilian employees of the army. The positions they filled included at least one regimental chaplain, nurses, and tens of thousands of construction laborers.Caption for Illustration: Black Confederate pickets near Fredericksburg in late 1862, as reported in Harper's Weekly, 7-N, 315 (10 Jan. 1863), 1. A picket was a guard set out beyond the edge of the camp to watch for approaching enemy soldiers.

Un bel libro per apprendere la storia della Guerra di Secessione dal punto di vista dei sudisti senza passare dai pregiudizi di chi vinse la guerra e che per un secolo e mezzo ha cercato di cancellare cultura e tradizioni del Sud. Pensato per i bambini (con anche illustrazioni da colorare) ma interessante anche per gli adulti per avere una visione non ideologica della Confederazione.