A Raw Recruit's War Experiences

During the winter preceding the firing upon Sumter, I was one of a group of young fellows of about my own age who regularly assembled evenings at the corner grocery of the villa...

Of the movements of the Eleventh regiment while in Virginia, I will not weary you with a rehearsal in detail. Our first regular camp was established on Miner's Hill, the extreme...

All were in high glee and the mythical goose occupied an elevated position when we "broke camp" and left Miner's Hill. The intelligent contraband who used to visit us every morn...

left Camp Stevens for the seat of war. We were in anything but light marching order when we broke camp. To this day the remembrance of those back-breaking knapsacks makes me wea...

Elsewhere I have spoken of an "unconditional surrender" Union man whom I overhauled while on picket duty on the Norfolk and Petersburg railroad. All southern men--and women, too...

While the Eleventh regiment was in service only nine months, and was never in action as a full regiment, yet it lost in that time two colonels. A certain fatality appeared to aw...

"Jumping from the frying-pan into the fire," the most of us thought when we reached Alexandria, after leaving the Convalescent Camp, and found that we were to be furnished with...

In common with soldiers generally, the _ménu_ of our company was somewhat limited in variety, and the dishes served did not materially differ from day to day. Sunday, however, w...

I have thus imperfectly, and to myself at least very unsatisfactorily, sketched the nine months' war experiences of a "raw recruit" of the Eleventh Rhode Island regiment. Whatev...

Suffolk was our last regular encampment. From there we went to Yorktown, expecting to take transportation home, as our term of service had nearly expired. After remaining there...