One Battle Too Many: An American Civil War Chronicle : the Writings of Simon Bolivar Hulbert, Private, Company E, 100th Regiment, New York State Volunteers 1861-1864The writings of Simon Bolivar Hulbert depict a brief but tumultuous period in the lives of a Union soldier and his family, and in the history of a young and troubled nation at war with itself. Herein is a chronicle, in diary and letter form, of one soldier's experiences from December 1861 to August 1864 while fighting and dying for a cause he considered moral. Simon Bolivar Hulbert ... was neither an acclaimed fighting hero nor a leader of men. To the contrary, he was an obscure, almost nondescript foot soldier who never surpassed the rank of private. He was not associated with legendary battles such as Antietam or Gettysburg, but fought elsewhere and witnessed the same horrors of war. Death, fear and pain were no less traumatic in a minor battle than in a major, well publicized one. |
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IN MORE PEACEFUL TIMES | 20 |
A PLEASANT INTERLUDE | 50 |
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