Hitchcock, adjutant and later major of the 132nd Pennsylvania Volunteers, recounts his regiment’s nine months of service in 1862 and 1863: raw recruits, picket duty, his own inexperience in command, and the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
A candid soldier’s memoir, written first for his children, that shows how ordinary volunteers learned war. Download the free EPUB.