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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Blue cloth with black lettering. Minor edgewear. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Dust jacket shows light scuffing. "While Abial Edwards was a "common solider' never rising above the rank of corporal, the diversity of his Civil War experience was remarkable. The war took him into the Shenandoah Valley under Nathaniel Banks and to the bloody battle of Antietam. In 1863, he served in Louisianna as part of the Red River campaign, later returning to the Shenandoah Valley under Philip Sheridan. With the war over, he served on garrison duty in occupied South Carolina for a year before being mustered out. During those years, he experienced danger, illness and discomfort, boredom, anguish at the destructive violence of war, and deep sorrow at the loss of friends. It was solace to write home to Anna, and he did so frequently. To her he described the experiences of meeting Ulysses S. Grant, catching a glimse of Abraham Lincoln, riding proudly at the front of his regiment at the Grand Review at war's end, and so much more.".