The Citizen-Soldier; or Memories of a Volunteer

First-hand account of the Civil War, by an infantryman with the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. " The writer's record begins with the day on which his regiment enteredVirginia, June 22, 1861, and ends on January 1, 1864. He does not undertake to present a history of the organizations with which he was connected, nor does he attempt to describe the operations of armies. His record consists merely of matters which came under his own observation, and of camp gossip, rumors, trifling incidents, idle speculations, and the numberless items, small and great, which, in one way and another,enter into and affect the life of a soldier. In short, he has sought simply to gather up the scraps which fell in his way, leaving to other and more competent hands the weightier matters of the great civil war."