“Fall of 1863. Talladega, Alabama. A young boy’s memory of a Union raid on his hometown and “the important part the women and boys and slaves played at home during the war.”
“1861-1865. Ten years old when the war began, this observer recalls the patriotic zeal that prompted the principal of his school, the Marshallville Academy (Georgia), to raise a company, recruit most of the older boys, and march off to Virginia.…