George T. Stevens served as a surgeon in the Sixth Corps of the Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1864, and his memoir is one of the most detailed and readable firsthand accounts of Union Army service in the Eastern Theater. Stevens witnessed the major campaigns from the Peninsula to the Overland Campaign, and writes with both medical precision and personal warmth about the men, marches, battles, and suffering he observed.
Regimental and corps histories by participants are the essential raw material of Civil War historiography, capturing the war at the level of lived experience. Download this free EPUB for an engaging and authoritative insider’s account of the Army of the Potomac.