About This Book
A former Confederate officer recalls his Civil War service, beginning with his decision to leave university to join his state's forces and continuing through company and brigade actions, camp life, marches, battles, retreats, and wartime privations. The memoir combines vivid personal anecdotes and regiment histories with evaluations of commanders and military decisions, interwoven with reflections on duty, camaraderie, and the conflict's human costs, intended as testimony for contemporaries and later readers.
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