Vincent Charles Macreading (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 9.01 X 6.16 X 0.90 inches.

Soft cover. Condition: New. New condition (still in original shrinkwrap) photographic softcover wraps. Includes Introduction and Notes by Marian Ragan Halperin. "A Young Soldier Grows Up in War. 'Tod-day we, the volunteers from Edgartown, to the number of eight ., started from the goodly town of our abode, on our way to the defence of the glorious Union .' So, on August 29, 1862, begins the Civil War diary of red-haired, freckle-faced, 18-year-old Charles Macreading Vincent of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Over the next three years, the journals and letters of "Charlie Mac," as he was called, follow his travels south to Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, and back to Virginia for the final advance on Richmond. In these pages - because these writings have been preserved and now transcribed - we find the personal journey of a young soldier and his maturation through years of war. Here are his eyewitness descriptions of long marches and brave men, his political opinions as shared with his family - and evidence of his homesickness, which never left him. It was three years before Charlie Mac again saw his "home by the sea." - from the rear outer cover 0.…