A Diary of Battle - by Allan Nevins (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The personal journals of Col. Charles S. Wainwright brilliantly describe his experiences, views, and emotions during the Civil War as an officer in the First New York Artillery Regiment of the Army of the Potomac. Wainwright's entries go beyond military matters to include his political and social observations. 11 maps.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>When Colonel Charles S. Wainwright (1826-1907), later a brevet brigadier general, was commissioned in the First New York Artillery Regiment of the Army of the Potomac in October 1861, he began a journal. As an officer who fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg, and who witnessed the leadership of Generals McClellan, Hooker, Burnside, Meade, Grant, and Sheridan, he brilliantly describes his experiences, views, and emotions. But Wainwright's entries go beyond military matters to include his political and social observations. Skillfully edited by Allan Nevins, historian and author of the classic multivolume <i>Ordeal of the Union</i>, this journal is Wainwright's vivid and invaluable gift to posterity.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>When Colonel Charles S. Wainwright (1826-1907), later Brevet Brigadier General, was commissioned in the First New York Artillery Regiment of the Army of the Potomac in October 1861, he began a journal. As an officer who fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg, and who witnessed the leadership of Generals McClellan, Hooker, Burnside, Meade, Grant, and Sheridan, he brilliantly describes his experiences. But Wainwright's entries go beyond military matters to include his political and social observations on Lincoln and his Cabinet, the soldiers' passion for gambling and prostitutes, army diet and medicine, and much more.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Allan Nevins</b> is an historian and author of the classic multivolume <i>Ordeal of the Union</i>.
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