Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment
Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm
ISBN: 978-1-4766-9112-1
Verlag: McFarland
The original 53 weekly installments, edited and annotated here, richly detail the horrors and folly of war. They reveal the slow maturation and survival of a boy thrust into nearly four years of war. Beckwith describes his various Tom Sawyer-like adventures with the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac, dealing with death, disease, loss and ultimate elation at Lee's surrender, which was only tempered by Abraham Lincoln's death. Beckwith was present at nearly all the historic Eastern Theater engagements from Antietam to Appomattox, including an abortive stint with the 91st New York in Florida in 1861.