This book was orginial published in 1914 and takes you from First Manassas to Gettysburg, where the author was wounded in the cannonade prior to Pickett's Charge, to the final battles of the war. From the Virginia Regimental Histories Series. Includes complete roster of 7th Virginia. . The much quoted classic. If you want your mess mates to think to know your stuff then drop them a few lines from this book.
Billings goes into great detail on many subjects, too much detail on some.
Billings was part of a Federal Artillery regiment. McCarthy belonged in the Confederate Artillery. . The wartime letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, 3rd South Carolina Volunteers. Follow the brothers, who were part of the Taliaferro family, from battle to battle and read the letters that they pinned to family members. When I write your to sister Anna, I intend to speak to her upon the same subject.