Hardtack and coffee: or, the unwritten story of Army life, including chapters on enlisting, life in tents and log huts, jonahs and beats, offences and punishments, raw recruits, foraging, corps and corps badges, the wagon trains, the Army mule, the Engineer Corps, the Signal Corps, etc.

Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier

John Algernon Owens

The work is a first‑person memoir that traces the early life of Willard Glazier against the bleak backdrop of…

Three years in the Sixth Corps: A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of the rebellion, April, 1865

George T. Stevens

George T. Stevens’s work is a first‑hand regimental history of the Union’s Sixth Corps, written by a veteran…

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Morford, Henry; Armstrong, William H.; Frick, Jacob G.

Red‑Tape and Pigeon‑Hole Generals is a first‑hand collection of sketches drawn by Union soldiers during the…

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

George Alfred Townsend

George Alfred Townsend’s work is a hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and war reportage, assembled from…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Leander Stillwell

Leander Stillwell’s manuscript is a first‑person account of a Union infantryman’s service from enlistment in…

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete

William T. Sherman