How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion: or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887

· 1916

The War Literature of the “Century” is very Confusing--I am Resolved to tell the True Story of the War--How and Why I Became a Raw Recruit--My Quarters--My Horse--My First Ride. For the last year or more I have been reading the articles in the _Century_ magazine, written by generals and things who served on both the Union and Confederate sides, and have been struck by the number of “decisive battles” that were fought, and the great number of generals who fought them and saved the country. It seems that each general on the Union side, who fought a battle, and writes an article for the aforesaid magazine, admits that his battle was the one which did the business. On the Confederate side, the …

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