Under the Guns: A Woman's Reminiscences of the Civil War

The remarkable book has been out of print for over a century and yet is one of the most intimate and compelling personal memoirs of the Civil War.

Widow Annie Turner Wittenmyer spent the years of the American Civil War in the thick of exploding shells, shattered bodies, exhausted souls, and the great figures of the war. She was an advocate for better medical treatment and better diets for fighting men and personally took her cause to Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln.

She held the hands an...