The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Volume 2: 1863

by Marek Bennett

Overview

1863: The continuing saga of a Yankee schoolteacher in the Union Army:
Young Freeman Colby joined the 39th Massachusetts Regiment in search of "better returns," but now he just wants to survive the war and return home to his friends & family in New England! Marching deeper into the war-torn heart of Virginia, he crosses paths with countless fellow survivors -- widows, poets, volunteer nurses, refugee children, ragged soldiers, brave mothers striving to deliver their families from slavery...
This wide-ranging graphic novel weaves together their stories with Colby's actual letters home, laying bare the day-to-day human struggles that shaped one of the most consequential years in American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780982415375
Publisher:	Comics Workshop
Publication date:	05/30/2019
Series:	Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby , #2
Pages:	550
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.23(d)
Age Range:	13 - 18 Years

About the Author

Marek Bennett makes & teaches comics & music in New Hampshire, USA, and the world beyond... www.MarekBennett.com

Table of Contents

FOREWORD.

Our Characters.

Map of Environs, 1863.

Our Story Thus Far.

Winter Camp of the 39^th Massachusetts …................. 1



FREEMAN COLBY: January-July 1863 …....................... 6

Picket Duty & Camp at Poolesville, Maryland —

Marching to Washington — On Guard & Hospital Duty

— News from Gettysburg — &c.



WALT WHITMAN: July, 1863 …..................................... 78

More Visits with the Old Fellow — Patients — The Poet



FREEMAN COLBY: July-November 1863 …............... 95

Departure — Harper's Ferry — Waterford — Hamilton — Warrenton Junction — Rappahannock Station — “Dear Parents” — Not Quite Sick — Anniversary — Refugees — Culpeper Camp — Still Sick — 2^nd Division Hospital — Taken to Washington — Waiting — Thankful — &c.

JONAS BACON: September-December, 1863 …..... 212

The Rapidan — Exchange — Law of the Land — Camp Nordquist — Plan “B” — Our Old Campground — Bealton Station — FANNIE DAWSON — Centreville — Thoroughfare Gap — Bristoe — Grove Church — Rappahannock Station — Thanksgiving — First Fire — Mine Run — Lt. Colonel Peirson — Decision— And Farther Back — Settling In — December Events — &c.



WALT WHITMAN: “The Wound-Dressers” …......... 398



SARAH LOW: October-December, 1863 ….............. 406

Nurse Sarah Low — On the Ward — Staff — Duties — Patients — Lessons — Decorations — At Campbell Hospital — ABRAHAM TUCKSON — Washington Letter — &c.



JONAS BACON: December, 1863 …............................ 462

Winter Quarters — Expectations — A Soldier's Funeral — Speaking Ill — &c.

GALLERY of SCENES.

AFTERWORD.

APPENDICES:

About the Source Texts.

Notes on Specific Pages & Sections.

Reference Images. Reference Maps.

Union Army Units.