Excerpt from Reminiscences: Or Four Years in the Confederate Army; A History of the Experiences of the Private Soldier in Camp, Hospital, Prison, on the March, and on the Battlefield; 1861 to 1865
Those who have written the history of our Civil War have done a great work in perpetuating the heroic deeds of leading generals of both sides of the line, and the armies, divisions and brigades under their command, and our country is pardonably proud of the record.
But the great factor in this gigantic struggle - the soldier in the ranks - he who endured privation, cold, hunger and imprisonment, and faced death in the hospital, on the bloody field and in all its shapes, who for sake of principle sacrificed even life to uphold convictions of right and made possible the fame of Lee, Jackson, Johnston. Grant, Sherman and McPherson, has had no gifted friend to record his acts of heroism and self-denial.
For this reason I write this book. Being only a private soldier, actuated by principle, for four long dismal years, my only aim was to do my duty to the cause I had espoused along with thousands of other young men impelled by the same motive.
My individual experience was varied and such as fell to the lot of the soldier, and all old soldiers who read this narrative will recognize the truth of the statements it contains.
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