personal narratives

Private Elisha Stockwell?s recollection of his Civil War service, in the Union Army, starting at fifteen years old. He lied about his age to join Company I, Fourteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment and saw action at Shiloh, Iuka, Cornith, Vicksburg, and Kennesaw Mountain. The text is written in his own words with editing for context. He makes us see and experience what a common soldier saw and felt in the Civil War.

Text, period photographs, and maps reveal how the outcome of the Civil War was affected by the campaigns of 1863: the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga.

Maps and drawings accompany an account of skirmishes and major campaigns by a soldier who enlisted at age fifteen and served seven years with George Washington's Continental Army.

Describes the daily life of the common Union soldier through diaries, excerpts from wartime letters, and from research.

A personal narrative history of the State of Israel from journalist, Ari Shavit, drawn from his family's stories, interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters.