A Diary of Battle: The Personal Journals Of Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861-1865

by Charles S. Wainwright, Allan Nevins (editor)

When Colonel Charles S. Wainwright (1826–1907), later a brevet brigadier general, was commissioned in the First New York Artillery Regiment of the Army of the Potomac in October 1861, he began a journal. As an officer who fought at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg, and who witnessed the leadership of Generals McClellan, Hooker, Burnside, Meade, Grant, and Sheridan, he brilliantly describes his experiences, views, and emotions. But Wainwright's entries go beyond military matters to include his political and social observations. Skillfully edited by Allan Nevins, historian and author of the classic multivolume Ordeal of the Union, this journal is Wainwright's vivid and invaluable gift to posterity.

Genres: Civil War, History, American Civil War, Nonfiction

564 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1962

Reviews

[William M. Cole]

Great insight s

Great insights:

A great rendition of the life of a senior officer. Super insights in many of the high and low.