Three Years in the Army of the Cumberland

<p>. . . offers an unsurpassed chronicle of the war in the West. --Register of the Kentucky Historical Society<br /><br />This eyewitness account brings a better understanding to a conflict that brought a nation to its knees. --Historical Media Review<br /><br />. . . an exceptional Civil War narrative. It has value for the military and literary historian. --War Literature and the Arts<br /><br />The letters and diary of Major James Austin Connolly 123rd Illinois Infantry constitute an unsurpassed record of Civil War campaigning in the West. Connolly had a flair for narrative an eye for people and places and a smooth and facile style. His accounts offer a realistic picture of day-to-day soldiering in the Civil War--of rough spare living in the field of boredom and fun in camp of seemingly aimless scouts and of the high excitement of battle.</p>