Good first hand accounts?

[gary]

I'm not the intellectual type like some enthusiasts are. My favorite reading tends to be first hand accounts of the war. Berry Benson's Confederate Scout-Sharpshooter was probably the first ACW book I ever picked up (OK, Monitors of the US Navy & Civil War Naval Chronology were the first and I got them from the US Govt. Printing office around the late '70s when I was in 4th Grade) but it wasn't until I picked up and read Worsham's One of Jackson's Foot Calvary that I got hooked.

Anybody got any favorite books written by former combatants of this family feud or book based on the letters, diaries or journals that they enjoyed?

[unionblue]

Gary,

"A Boy's Service With the 76th Ohio" by Charles H. Willison, in where he gives, by letters and rememberences, his service with his unit throughout the war. I liked it cause it was from the privates point of view and that the unit served out 'west' in the Vicksburg campaign and then went South with Sherman to the sea.

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