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A Civil War Diary - Written By Dr. James A. Black, First Assistant Surgeon, 49th Illinois Infantry (Hardcover)
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A Civil War Diary - Written By Dr. James A. Black, First Assistant Surgeon, 49th Illinois Infantry (Hardcover)
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Assistant Surgeon James A. Black takes the reader on a seldom
traveled journey--a fourteen hundred sixty-one day excursion--as he
participates in the American Civil War. During his sojourn the
Union soldier openly shares his observations, his joys, his
concerns, and his frustrations, as he provides the reader with
tremendous insight into the daily lives of soldiers in their camps
and on their campaigns some one hundred fifty years ago. Black and
a contingency of Southern Illinois men enlisted in the Union Army
October 6, 1861. The 49th Illinois Infantry Regiment was mustered
into service December 31, 1861, briefly trained at Camp Butler,
near Springfield, Illinois, and was engaged in combat by February,
1862. The regiment remained active in the Western Theatre of action
for the duration of the war. Although the diary does not offer
revolutionary revelations about the war or its generals, it does
present interesting and revealing perceptions about the conflict,
especially concerning the impact on soldiers involved in prolonged
military engagement. Black s perspective as a Civil War soldier is
unique in many ways. For the first year he wrote with the view of
an enlisted infantryman, while the last three years he viewed
events from the eyes of a commissioned medical officer. In
addition, James Black, a good soldier, was a strong believer in the
Union cause, a religious man, and a moralist. In many ways his
thoughts reflect the times and yet many thoughts do not necessarily
follow conventional Civil War wisdom. The diary is completely
unabridged and void of interpretation or comment by scholars.
Simply, the diary is James personal story as he lived it.
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