Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals: as Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

First-hand account of the American Civil War, from the perspective of a "citizen-soldier", first published in 1864. The Preface begins: ""Greek-fire has shivered the statue of John C. Calhoun in the streets of the City of Charleston,"--so the papers say. Whether true or not, the Greek-fire of the righteous indignation of a loyal people is fast shattering the offspring of his infamous teachings,--the armed treason of the South, and its more cowardly ally the insidious treachery that lurks under doubtful cover in the loyal States. In thunder tones do the masses declare, that now and for ever, they repudiate the Treason and despise the Traitor. Nobly are the hands of our Honest President sustained in prosecuting this most righteous war.”