Infantryman Pettit: The Civil War Letters of Corporal Frederick Pettit, Late of Company C, 100th Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the Roundheads, 1862-1864
by Frederick Pettit
Category: Pennsylvania

Corporal Pettit's letters home not only describe combat from the enlisted perspective, but also describe garrison and field life in his intensely religious "roundhead" regiment, the 100th Pennsylvania Volunteers.