A young New Yorker caught in the South when the war broke out was pressed into the Confederate army. Writing in 1862 after his escape, he describes serving in the infantry, ordnance, cavalry, courier and hospital services around Nashville and in the western campaigns, and sets out what he saw of the South’s power, purpose and discipline for Northern readers.
A rare insider’s view of the early Confederate army, written as Union wartime reportage. Download the free EPUB.