Si Klegg, Book 6 / Si and Shorty, with Their Boy Recruits, Enter on the Atlanta Campaign

The narrative follows two seasoned sergeants, Si Klegg and Shorty, as they shepherd a band of inexperienced boy recruits through camp life and the Atlanta Campaign, balancing comic episodes with vivid sketches of marches, drills, foraging, skirmishes and pitched battles such as actions around Buzzard Roost and the assault on enemy earthworks. Interwoven are small domestic notes, a romantic subplot, and scenes of military discipline culminating in a court-martial, all conveyed in anecdotal, often humorous vignettes that emphasize comradeship, practical soldiering skills, and the mixture of fear, resourcefulness and stoic humor that sustains men under fire.