Last to leave the field
Subtitle: the life and letters of First Sergeant Ambrose Henry Hayward, 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
By: edited by Timothy J. Orr
Contributors: Orr, Timothy D.
Series: Voices of the Civil War
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Knoxville, Tenn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781572337299
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Independence still lives" : from North Bridgewater to Philadelphia, May 21, 1840-July 28, 1861; title: "We are not without our sport" : guarding the Potomac, July 28, 1861-February 24, 1862; title: "We all supposed the time for chewing cartridges had come" : the Shenandoah Valley Campaign, February 24-September 1, 1862; title: "Baltimore is a slumbering volcano" : Melville Hayward in Baltimore, May 25-September 5, 1862; title: "I have seen death in every shape" : the Maryland Campaign, September 1-December 29, 1862; title: "These are America's dark days" : winter quarters: December 29, 1862-April 27, 1863; title: "Last to leave the field" : the Chancellorsville Campaign, April 27-May 23, 1863; title: "I have done my duty in the last great contest" : the Pennsylvania Campaign, May 23-September 24, 1863; title: "If a battle, let it begin with the riseing of the sun" : the Chattanooga Campaign, September 24, 1863-January 10, 1864; title: "The white starr shines in Philadelphia" : veteran furlough, January 10-May 3, 1864; title: "Carrieing the war into Africa" : the Atlanta Campaign, May 3-June 19, 1864; title: Epilogue : "at his country's call".