A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

You’re about to hear the wartime memories of David E. Holt, a Mississippi farm boy who marched off to the Civil War at sixteen and served in the fabled Army of Northern Virginia. Holt fought through some of the fiercest battles of the Confederacy—Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, and the long siege of Petersburg. He writes not as a general or strategist, but as a private in the ranks, telling exactly what he saw, felt, and survived.

Decades after the guns fell silent, Holt set down these recollections in plain, direct language, describing everything from the terror of battle to the boredom of camp life, the misery of prison, and the small moments of humor that kept men alive. His account is raw, personal, and unmistakably human—a rare look into the life of a young Confederate soldier who endured the full grind of war.

This is David Holt’s story, told in his own words: the story of a Mississippi rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia.