Footprints of a regiment

By W. H. Andrews

Subjects: Biography, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, regimental histories, Amerikaanse burgeroorlog, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Confederate States of America, Military history, History, Soldiers, Georgia Civil War, 1861-1865, Confederate Personal narratives, Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Regular Infantry Regiment, 1st, Personal narratives

Description: Footprints of a Regiment chronicles W.H. Andrews' four years in the War Between the States from the Siege of Yorktown to the war's last battle at Bentonville, North Carolina. Based on his war journals and written in the 1890s, Andrews' moving memoir offers unusual access to the war -- the perspective of a foot soldier reflecting some thirty years later. Andrews gives vivid and dramatic descriptions of his company's twenty-plus battles, including their violence and tragedy. No less fascinating are the descriptions of his everyday experiences through the southern battleground states -- long, hard marches, foraging as a result of scant rations and pay, soldiers deserting to relieve starving families, silly antics to ease restlessness or exhaustion. - Jacket flap.