Favill-1-C
Consignment
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Author: J. M. Favill
Diary of a Young Army Officer
Publisher : Butternut and Blue - Army of the Potomac Series
Hardback
Sealed in Plastic
The book provides a daily record of active campaigning recorded at the time by an active participant in the great struggle. It covers most of the campaigns of the 57th New York Infantry and the gallant old Third Brigade of the First Division, Second Corps, of the Army of the Potomac. The unit was raised by General Samuel K. Zook, who was later killed in the Wheatfield at Gettysburg. After being mustered in on November 19, 1861, the unit saw active combat at Manassas Junction, during the Peninsula Campaign, at Yorktown, Chantilly, Antietam, Falmouth, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Brandy Stations, Wilderness and Spotsylvania.
The book also provides insights into the social side of the army in the field, described in some detail and interest, and our relations with the luckless women and children of the Confederacy shows that we were not the monsters that many in the South have delighted to paint us, but that we performed a stern duty with the least possible offense.