Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson and Twenty Great Battles opens as both a Civil War adventure and a solemn family testimony, promising battles, raids, prison suffering, political intrigue, and the moral struggle between Union loyalty and treason. In the voice of an aging father looking back on a shattered household, the story makes the war personal from the start: one Indiana family is broken apart as seven sons are drawn into the conflict, and memory itself becomes a form of mournin...

In late 1862, the hard-marching 200th Indiana trudges south toward the Stone River campaign, and Si Klegg and Shorty face the war with the same weapon they use against mud, cold, and exhaustion: rough, relentless humor. From drenched winter roads and stalled wagons to frozen nights in the field, the story follows ordinary soldiers enduring the brutal realities of campaigning, the chaos of army logistics, and the constant strain of hunger, fatigue, and danger. When Si's temper flares, he fi...

Si Klegg follows a raw Union recruit in the 200th Indiana as he blunders, learns, and slowly hardens into a seasoned Civil War soldier. With his loyal companion Shorty at his side, Si's journey captures the everyday realities of army life: the jokes, the hunger, the exhaustion, the sudden danger, and the hard-won ingenuity that kept ordinary men alive. Eager to do everything right, Si leaves home burdened with gifts from family, friends, and even a preacher, only to discover that sentiment...

As the Atlanta Campaign begins in the spring of 1864, veteran Union armies gather around Chattanooga under Sherman, McPherson, and Thomas, hardened by years of brutal fighting and ready for another decisive march. Into this vast military panorama come Si Klegg, Shorty, and their boy recruits, whose journey is shaped as much by hunger, confusion, and responsibility as by battlefield glory. Lost in railroad yards and camp chaos, they struggle to keep little Pete Skidmore safe, only to fear h...

Si Klegg follows Josiah "Si" Klegg, a raw young Union recruit in the 200th Indiana Regiment, as he blunders from farm boy innocence into the hard-earned competence of a Civil War soldier. With his comic, practical partner Shorty at his side, Si's journey captures the humor, hardship, and battlefield adventure of ordinary army life, from enlistment and drill to skirmishes, foraging, and close calls. At first, Si is packed for war with everything from keepsakes and advice to boots, knives, f...

Si Klegg plunges into the Tullahoma Campaign of June 1863 with Si, Shorty, and the 200th Indiana marching toward Shelbyville through relentless rain, mud, and rising tension. What begins in soldierly banter and confident talk of forcing Bragg into battle soon becomes a punishing test of endurance, as flooded roads, swollen streams, enemy cavalry, and artillery turn movement itself into combat. Amid the chaos, Si and Shorty find themselves battling a balky mule team, a stubborn teamster, an...

This combative social essay turns conventional morality inside out, arguing that nature itself is wasteful, overproducing life and relying on scarcity, predation, and hardship to prune the excess. Extending that Darwinian logic to human society, it claims that vice performs a grimly useful function: alcoholism, debauchery, crime, and sexual excess shorten the lives of the weak, the ambitious, and the socially dangerous, sparing society from stagnation. The author uses sardonic examples ran...

The Land of the Divided: American Civil War Collection assembles fiction, memoir-inflected narrative, historical reflection, adventure, regional writing, and political commentary around the conflict that remade the United States. Its range extends from starkly modern examinations of combat and moral uncertainty to romance, battlefield chronicle, satire, and popular historical tale. Together, these works illuminate not only military campaigns but also divided loyalties, emancipation, recons...

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known commanders, politicians, nurses and civilians amidst the war. "Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons" is one of the best accounts about the Civil War. McElroy, the author, vividly tells ...

THE TRUE STORY OF ANDERSONVILLE MILITARY PRISON, AS TOLD IN THE PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOHN MCELROY, SOMETIME PRIVATE, CO. L, 16TH ILLINOIS CAVALRYAged only 16 years old in 1863, John McElroy enlisted with the Union Army as a private in Company L of the 16th Illinois Cavalry regiment, and was captured the following year near Jonesville, Virginia, by Confederate cavalrymen.McElroy was first sent to Richmond, then to Andersonville in February 1864. In October 1864 he was mov...

A Union soldier's true story of survival as a prisoner of war at the Confederacy's most notorious military internment camp.For men who endured the horrors of the Civil War, Andersonville Prison represented an even more terrifying level of hell. The prisoners starved while disease ran rampant.John McElroy was captured in battle and transferred to Andersonville. This is his eye-opening, bestselling account of his imprisonment in a place where one of every fou...

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