The Great War Relic (Abridged, Annotated)

You are unlikely to find another memoir of the American Civil War to match this one for eccentricity. Yet it is well worth your reading time.

Charles Cummings made it through the war with the 24th Michigan Infantry Volunteers with nary a scratch. He was in battle and spent time in the notorious Andersonville Prison, where he helped amputate the feet of another soldier with gangrene. It wasn't until later in civilian life that Cummings lost his own feet. All that and more is told in this rauc...