“February-March 1865. Marlboro County, South Carolina. A young student at the Federal Academy in Bennettsville, South Carolina describes the Union troops’ dash through that town and school.”
“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…