Hoosier farm boy in Lincolns army;: The Civil War letters of Pvt. John R. McClure
by Nancy Niblack Baxter
Category: United States

John R. McClure was an eighteen-year-old farmboy from Indiana who went with his cousin to join the Army of the Potomac in 1861, when the Civil War first began. This book is a collection of his letter written to friends and family back home and details the Civil War from a first-person perspective.