Table of Contents
List of Maps
Preface
Introduction: "I Cannot Bear to Think of a Dismembered Country"

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&&LI&&"Soldiering Is Romantic Indeed": Illusion and the First Battle of Kernstown
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&&LI&&"The 67th Has Not Been Stationary": The Shenandoah Valley Campaign
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&&LI&&"Terrible Realities of a Protracted and Savage War": The Peninsula Campaign
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&&LI&&"Never Ceasing Scramble for This Bauble Glory": The Charleston Siege and Fort Wagner
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&&LI&&"Old Promptly Has Returned": Charleston Unconquered
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&&LI&&"Days of Intense Anxiety and Peril": The Army of the James
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&&LI&&"Constantly under Fire": The Bermuda Hundred Front
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&&LI&&"A Desolated Country Cursed by Slavery and Slavery's War": Stalemate and Monotony at Bermuda Hundred Front
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&&LI&&"I Would Not Feel It Any Degradation to Command Colored Troops": Trench Warfare, Deep Bottom, and Darbytown Road
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&&LI&&"Each Day Brings the War So Much Near a Close": The Appomattox Campaign
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&&LI&&"A Black Woman Had Rights": Reconstruction in Virginia&&/LI&&
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Notes and Sources
Index

About the Author

Jerome Mushkat is author of several books, including Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology. He is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Akron.

Reviews

"A first-rate contribution."—Civil War History
"Military historians will find much of interest in this collection of correspondence from an Ohio regimental commander to his wife."—Military History
"Mushkat has done an excellent job of editing the letters, and his introduction provides a detailed and accurate presentation of Voris and his life."—America's Civil War