Includes bibliographical references ( pages 237-240) and index.
Contents:
Apprenticeship to Uncle Sam -- The Maryland Campaign -- The Fredericksburg Campaign -- Winter at Falmouth -- Removal to Newport News -- Transfer to the Department of the Ohio -- Spring and Summer in Eastern Kentucky -- The East Tennessee Campaign -- Winter in the mountains -- Hospital life -- Grant's campaign -- Captured at Cold Harbor -- Prisoner of war -- Andersonville, Georgia -- Camp Lawton-Millen, Georgia -- Florence, South Carolina -- Release -- Hitchcock's commentary in 1890 on Union prisoners of war -- Hitchcock after the war.
Summary:
"On August 7, 1862, George Alfred Hitchcock (born in Massachusetts in 1844) left home looking forward to a reunion with his older brother, Henry Sparhawk Hitchcock, and membership in Company A, 21st Massachusetts Infantry. From this date until January 1, 1865, Hitchcock kept a meticulous record of his daily activities in pocket diaries"-- Provided by publisher.
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