Author : Mark A. Smith
Publisher : Voices of the Civil War
ISBN 13 : 9781621905592
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)
Book Synopsis A Volunteer in the Regular Army by : Mark A. Smith
Download or read book A Volunteer in the Regular Army written by Mark A. Smith and published by Voices of the Civil War. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the outbreak of the war, Gilbert Thompson joined the regular army and was assigned to the engineer battalion. He began writing a journal of his service. After the war, Thompson took his three wartime journals and interleaved them into a single volume, adding some of his postwar reflections along the way. Thus, the text he left to posterity is both journal and memoir, and he maintains a clear delineation between these two perspectives throughout. Thompson was also an accomplished artist and topographer, and his sketches from the field add a unique visual narrative to this book. His service, including activity at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Petersburg, extended well into 1864"--