( )Īn account of day-to-day life in the Army of the Potomac. After all, that was the first reason the war began.to force them back into the union, then to deal with the issue of slavery. It appears that the Union Army were well taken care of compared to the Rebels who had seceded from the union and, I gather, had no government support. That being said, I did learn some things that, before, I never would have even thought about, such as how the officer's had to deal with the many different personalities, and the dead beats, in camp, or dealing with the enormous wagon trains when they met head on in those narrow dirt roads, building pontoon bridges to cross the many creeks, streams and rivers, flag signaling in a kind of morse code from hilltop to hilltop, etc. I also found it a little hard to read as he writes in that early American style. It was more of a "general" account of the war with a touch of his personal experiences. I was a little disappointed in the fact that this wasn't an actual true first account, and personal stories, of the author, himself.
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