A Southern Record

Originally published in a limited edition in 1866, this memoir of Will Tunnard's experiences of the Civil War in the West, where he served in the famed Third Louisiana Infantry, is one of only a handful of chronicles left by western Confederate soldiers. His account treats the battles of Wilson's Creek, Pea Ridge, Iuka, and Corinth as well as the siege of Vicksburg. This is a vivid history of these hard-fought campaigns which determined the outcome of the war in the Trans-Mississippi theater.