Well Satisfied with My Position : the Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall.

Well Satisfied with My Position : the Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall.

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Well Satisfied with My Position offers a first-person account of army life during the Civil War' s Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Fredericksburg. Spencer Bonsall, who joined the 81st Pennsylvania Infantry as a hospital steward, kept a journal from March 1862 until March 1863, when he abruptly...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Flannery, Michael A.
Other Authors: Oomens, Katherine H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Bonsall, Spencer, > 1816-1888 > Diaries.
Bonsall, Spencer, > 1816-1888
United States. > Army > Military life > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army. > Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 81st (1861-1865)
United States. > Army.
American Civil War > (1861-1865)
Hospitals > United States > Employees > Diaries.
Soldiers > Health and hygiene > United States > History > 19th century.
Hospitals.
Hospitals > Employees.
Regimental histories.
Armed Forces > Military life.
Soldiers > Health and hygiene.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Hospitals.
Pennsylvania > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
Pennsylvania > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Regimental histories.
Pennsylvania.
United States.
Diaries
History
Personal narratives
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Introduction: Spencer Bonsall's Life and Times to 1863; Peninsula Campaign: May 6 through June 22, 1862; Editors' Note on the Interlude of June to December 1862; Fredericksburg: December 5 to December 16, 1862; Windmill Point and Falmouth: January 6 to March 26, 1863; Editors' Postscript on March 1863 through War's End; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bios; Back Cover.

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