"This book is of outstanding value as a close-up picture of the management of confiscated and abandoned plantations along the Mississippi River which were leased to Northern speculators and managers, and in detailing the ways of enslaved working on…
“August 20, 1861-May 1864. Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. A brief summary by a farm boy from Ohio who served in three states. His account has some useful material about the early years of the war- especially in Missouri.”