As We Went Marching on a Story of the War (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

George Washington Hosmer

9780332395821: As We Went Marching on a Story of the War (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0332395820 ISBN 13: 9780332395821

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2022

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A tense midnight encounter on the picket-line yields a prisoner’s quiet, unsettling confession that could change more than one life.

A wartime drama told with careful observation and human detail.

Set during the Civil War in August 1862, this memoir follows a moment when two scouts confine a lone Confederate prisoner. What begins as a straightforward capture becomes a window into the prisoner’s thoughts, loyalties, and the secrets he guards. The scene blends battlefield immediacy with the slow unraveling of motive, as the captors weigh what they learn against what they fear they don’t know.

The narrative centers on a war-weary camp, a wary prisoner, and a doctor’s stubborn faith in recovery. Through the prisoner’s half‑confessed motives and the old surgeon’s quiet, probing observations, the text explores how duty, danger, and personal ties intersect in the heat of conflict.

A dramatic encounter on a moonlit road, with pistols drawn and lines crossed.
A prisoner’s restrained honesty and the suspicion it provokes among his captors.
Medical detail and bedside craft as an old surgeon tends to a wounded man.
Themes of loyalty, the cost of war, and the pull of home amid front-line pressures.

Ideal for readers of Civil War memoirs and history that blends battlefield memory with intimate human moments.

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