"Some of the boys ..."
Subtitle: The Civil War letters of Isaac Jackson, 1862-1865.
By: Edited by Joseph Orville Jackson. With a foreword by Bell Irvin Wiley.
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1960
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
Description: Between September 1862 and May 1865, Isaac Jackson, a young Union soldier from Ohio, wrote more than one hundred letters home from camp and bivouac. The letters preserved in this collection give the reader a vivid and coherent account of the Civil War operations in the West, especially the siege of Vicksburg, as the Northern soldier experienced them. -- Dust jacket.