Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

The narrator, a non-combatant correspondent, recounts travel and reporting during the war, offering personal sketches of campaigns witnessed in a civil capacity, vivid travel anecdotes, and impressions of the invaded countryside and its inhabitants. Chapters mix battlefield observations with lighter episodes rarely found in formal histories, reflections on the habits and pressures of newspaper life, and comparisons between American life seen in Europe and European views of America. The collection moves between scenes of travel, journalistic apprenticeship and return home, culminating in later wartime experiences and candid reflections on the author's role as observer rather than combatant.