# A Minor War History Compiled from a Soldier Boy's Letters to "the Girl I Left Behind Me": 1861-1864

Author: Haynes, Martin A. (Martin Alonzo), 1842-1919

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63040

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Minor+War+History+Compiled+from+a+Soldier+Boy%27s+Letters+to+%22the+Girl+I+Left+Behind+Me%22%3A+Haynes&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_In gathering material for a history of the Second Regiment, one of my sources of information was a big bundle of letters, even then yellowing with age—my letters, covering a period of over three years, written to “The girl I left behind me.” These—with the elimination of such strictly personal matters as concerned only the two of us—were carefully copied, and the letters then given to the flames. Thirty years later, breaking the seals of that bundle of manuscript, I read with indescribable interest my own story of more than half a century ago. And the whim came upon me to put those scraps of war history into type and print a few copies, especially for members of the family. I can see an...

## Chapters

- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-minor-war-history-compiled-from-a-soldier-boy-s-letters-to-th-a50b9f23/chapters/16/index.md)