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From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton's Regulars - A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment (Paperback)
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From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton's Regulars - A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment (Paperback)
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Sixty years after the Civil War, the 121st New York Volunteers
(Upton's Regulars) finally published a history of their regiment.
Its stated author was a man who had not served directly with the
121st but had based the book on a memoir written by a survivor who
had enlisted at age 15. That boy, Dewitt Clinton Beckwith,
published his memoir thirty years after the war in an obscure
upstate New York newspaper, The Mohawk Democrat. For years, the
"origin story" lay in plain sight, until editor Salvatore Cilella
discovered the memoir while performing research for a regimental
history. The original 53 weekly installments, edited and annotated
here, richly detail the horrors and folly of war. They reveal the
slow maturation and survival of a boy thrust into nearly four years
of war. Beckwith describes his various Tom Sawyer-like adventures
with the VI Corps of the Army of the Potomac, dealing with death,
disease, loss and ultimate elation at Lee's surrender, which was
only tempered by Abraham Lincoln's death. Beckwith was present at
nearly all the historic Eastern Theater engagements from Antietam
to Appomattox, including an abortive stint with the 91st New York
in Florida in 1861.
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