Personal Recollections of the War of 1861: a Young Lieutenant of the 61st New York Volunteer Infantry of the Union Army During the American Civil War

A first rate Civil War memoir of an outstanding Union Army regiment

The author of this book, Charles Fuller, was a young officer of the Union army at war with the Confederacy of Jefferson Davis during the American Civil War. He has written an excellent account of his time serving with 'the Clinton Guard,' the 61st New York Volunteer Infantry. Given the numerous infantry regiments of the Union Army it is often difficult for general readers to differentiate between them and decide which first...