“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…
“1861- 1862. Yorktown, Virginia. Recollections of activities on the Peninsula, by an observer who was a boy of twelve years at the time recorded in 1934.”
“This pamphlet recounts the author's experiences as a soldier in the Virginia 12th infantry until he was wounded at Antietam, and later as a clerk in a Richmond hotel.”