Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade - Softcover

Casler, John O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1519051131 ISBN 13: 9781519051134

Publisher: Independently published, 2016

Synopsis

"I was no secessionist, and hoped the trouble would be settled without recourse to arms; but when the war came I shouldered my musket in behalf of my native State and defended her to the last." As a commander in Stonewall Jackson's brigade, John Casler experienced all the horrors and comedy of the American Civil War. His time was not so different from his countrymen on the other side, with the exception of point of view. He buried more than one good friend. "I saw my friend, William I. Blue, lying on his face, dead. I sat down by him and took a hearty cry, and then, thinks I, “It does not look well for a soldier to cry,” but I could not help it. While I was at work a Georgian came to me and wanted the tools as soon as I was done with them. He said he wanted to bury his brother, and asked if I was burying a brother. 'No,' I replied, 'but dear as a brother.'”

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From the Inside Flap

"It was difficult for a soldier to figure out why a gold watch or money in the pocket of a dead soldier, who had been trying to kill him all day, did not belong to the man who found it as much as it did to anyone else." —John O. Casler

About the Author

John O. Casler (1838-1926) was an American soldier and author born in Frederick County, Virginia. While he had left the family home at age twenty-one, when it seemed that war was imminent he returned and enlisted in the Confederate States Army in June 1861. Following the war he emigrated to Sherman, Texas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1519051131
• ISBN 13: 9781519051134
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 309