Quite Ready to Be Sent Somewhere: The Civil War Letters of Aldace Freeman Walker

The Civil War Letters of Aldace Freeman walker, First Heavy Artillery, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers. Letters home, 1862-1865, from the defenses of Washington, the Overland and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns with the Sixth Corps, and the immediate aftermath of the war.

Tom Ledoux is a Green Mountain Boy, a 7th-generation Vermonter, currently residing in Ellicott City, Maryland.

____Mr. Ledoux is the creator and webmaster of an award-winning Internet project, "Vermont in the Civil War," a grassroots effort to document online the Green Mountain State's role in the War of Rebellion.

____Living south of the Mason-Dixon Line provides frequent opportunities for him to visit the majority of the battlefields where Vermonters fought during the war.

____A 26-years U.S. Navy veteran, Mr. Ledoux is a 1996 graduate of the University of Maryland University College, and a graduate of American Military University, Manassas, Virginia, where he was awarded a Master of Arts in Military Studies (Civil War Studies) in December 2001.

____Mr. Ledoux is currently working two additional volumes; "Vermont's Rebel Heroine, Revisited," an anthology of letters, publications, legends and myths about one of the most endearing stories to come out of the Civil War, and a history of the First Artillery, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, the largest unit fielded by Vermont during the Civil War.