WITH LOVING REGARD FOR THE MEMORY OF MY PARENTS WHO WATCHED FOR AND EAGERLY READ THE DIARY AS FROM TIME TO TIME IT CAME TO THEM AND TO MY COMRADES-IN-ARMS WHETHER LIVING OR DEAD THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. In the multitude of books written about the Civil War, very little is said of the enlisted man. His bravery and his loyalty are admitted and that is about all. Of his everyday life, the very thing his family and friends cared most to know about, there is hardly anything said.…
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