With the Old Confeds: Actual Experiences of a Captain in the Line

Buck, Samuel D.

Very useful and informative eyewitness account from a company-grade officer (who often served in a higher capacity on savage battlefields). If you want things tidy, read the memoirs by the generals. If you want to know both the mundane routines and terrible brutality, read the memoirs and diaries of the junior officers and enlisted men. This is not a polished work, but it's all the better for its straightforward rawness.'

141 pages; Staunton, Virginia:  Lot's Wife Publishers, 2007.  Index.