Campaigns of a Non-Combatant: and His Romaunt Abroad during the War

I have endeavored to reproduce not only the adventures but the impressions of a novitiate and I have described not merely the army and its operations but the country invaded and the people who inhabit it. --George Alfred Townsend Preface 1866Although George Alfred Townsend is no longer a well-known name today by the end of the Civil War he had become a popular war correspondent covering the Civil War for the New York Herald and the New York World. In 1866 his book Campaigns of a Non-Combatant and his Romaunt Abroad during the War was published. This book represented his reflections on the Civil War and on his two-year journey in Europe during the war.Campaigns of a Non-Combatant and his Romaunt Abroad during the War is a must read for historians fellow journalists and all who are interested in personal stories about the Civil War.