Recollections of a Private Soldier in the Army of the Potomac

by Frank Wilkeson

Overview

"THE history of the fighting to suppress the slave-holders rebellion, thus far written, has been the work of commanding generals. The private soldiers who won the battles, when they were given a chance to win them, and lost them through the ignorance and incapacity of commanders, have scarcely begun to write the history from their point of view.
The two will be found to differ materially.  
Most of this war history has been written to repair damaged or wholly ruined military reputations. 
The men who carried the muskets, served the guns, and rode in the saddle had no military reputations to defend or create, and they brought not out of the war professional jealousy of their comrades. They and they alone can supplement the wonderful contribution made by Grant to the history of the struggle to suppress the rebellion......"

Frank Wilkeson 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788834126400
Publisher:	Arcadia Press
Publication date:	05/29/2019
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	233 KB

About the Author

Frank Wilkeson (1848-1913) was an American journalist, soldier, farmer, and explorer. He wrote several books, including an autobiography of his service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

After producing, directing, and engineering spoken word recordings for over twenty years, Paul Heitsch began narrating audiobooks in 2011, and has recorded many bestselling titles as both himself and under a pseudonym. A classically trained pianist, Paul is also a composer and sound designer, and is currently the director of music for the James Madison University School of Theatre and Dance, and an adjunct instructor for the JMU School of Music. He and his family live in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia (although Chicago will always be his hometown).