A Leaf of Voices: Stories of the American Civil War in the Words of Those Who Lived and Died, 1861-65

During the American Civil the Wabash Intelligencer and the Wabash Plain Dealer frequently printed letters from Wabash County men serving in the Union army. The letter writers are a remarkable cast of characters: young and old, soldiers, doctors, ministers, officers, enlisted men, newspaper men, and a fifteen-year-old printers' devil who enlisted as a drummer boy.

These are not stories of generals or battle strategies; they are the stories of the ordinary soldiers and their everyday lives. Th...