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The citizen-soldier, or, Memoirs of a volunteer

When Southerners fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, John Beatty left his bank job in Ohio to answer President Lincoln's call for soldiers. This title presents his diary which he kept from June 1861 to January 1864 that shows how well they did their fearful job without losing their humanity.
Print Book, English, 1998
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University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1998