Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Soldier's Story of the War: Including the Marches and Battles of the Washington Artillery, and of Other Louisiana Troops
Do not these fancies come to all of us? Do not some of our old men who dry up and drop off, and tearful-eyed women who still pray for shelter and protection from beggary - do not the surviving soldiers who find it hard to cope in skill or robust health with younger rivals brood over these memories?
My excuse for writing this narrative is that I never at first intended it; I thought only to pass a wearisome hour in a letter to an old friend. Once commenced, I could not end; at the same time many old comrades, the subject once suggested, begged me if I proposed writing about the war at all, toutako for my theme the soldiers who went from Louisiana.
I have tried to do this, though at the same time attempting only a rough military narrative. I want only to try and show how large bodies of our young men went through the transformation of the citizen into the soldier. How we learned and became reconciled to the rough life of camp; consented to new ways of think ing and living, and suffered, as it were, a general breaking up and wreck of our previous identity and existence.
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