Josiah Klegg leaves his father’s Indiana farm to enlist in the Union army, hauling an absurd load of gear his family insists he needs. Barracks life, drill, the bayonet, the canteen, army mules and foraging teach him one comic lesson after another as he grows from greenhorn toward veteran.
The first of six Si Klegg books, written by a Civil War veteran for fellow veterans in the National Tribune. Download the free EPUB.