Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1. We Will Strive to Do Our Duty as American Soldiers

CHAPTER 2. The Loss Is Great, the Confusion Greater

CHAPTER 3. McClellan Moves Slow but Sure

CHAPTER 4. We Shall Go into the Storm of Battle with Brave Hearts

CHAPTER 5. A Whirlwind of Bullets, Yells, and Shrieks

CHAPTER 6. At It We Went Tooth and Nail

CHAPTER 7. The Sight Was Horrible and One I Hope I Never See Again

CHAPTER 8. Three Cheers for Colonel Jeffords

CHAPTER 9. Christ How the Canister Flew

CHAPTER 10. They Were Soon on All Sides of Us

CHAPTER 11. We Have Seen a Pretty Hard Campaign

CHAPTER 12. They Say Let the War Go On

CHAPTER 13. I Am Well but Don't Know How Long

CHAPTER 14. The Regiment Is in a Bad Situation at Present

CHAPTER 15. We Have Broke the Backbone of the Rebellion

CHAPTER 16. I Saw Passing a Great Army

Roster of the 4th Michigan Infantry Regiment

Notes

Bibliography

Index