From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw

In 1861 a ringing call came to the manhood of the South. The world knows how the men of the South answered that call. Dropping everything, they came from mountains, valleys and plains – from Maryland to Texas, they eagerly crowded to the front, and stood to arms. What for? What moved them? What was in their minds?