My Life In The Irish Brigade: The Civil War Memoirs Of Private William Mccarter, 116th Pennsylvania InfantryThe first full-length memoir published by an enlisted man in the Irish Brigade, from the Seven Day's Battles to the charge up Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg-a no-holds-barred firsthand account. |
Contents
CHAPTER NINE | 161 |
CHAPTER | 187 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 209 |
CHAPTER | 236 |
Scenes in Charlestown and Return to Harpers Ferry | 251 |
| 262 | |
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References to this book
While God is Marching on: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers Steven E. Woodworth Limited preview - 2001 |