A Yankee at arms : the diary of Lieutenant Augustus D. Ayling, 29th Massachusetts Volunteers / edited by Charles F. Herberger
- Author
- Ayling, Augustus D.
- Additional Titles
- Diary of Lieutenant Augustus D. Ayling, 29th Massachusetts Volunteers
- Published
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1999]
- Copyright Date
- ©1999
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Herberger, Charles F.
- Series
- Contents
- Enlistment and Fort Monroe -- The Monitor and the Merrimack and Newport News -- An infantry officer in the Army of the Potomac -- McClellan's retreat and the hospitalization of Lieutenant Ayling -- Lieutenant Ayling on sick leave -- The Fredericksburg Campaign -- Winter camp and transfer to Newport News -- A wartime love affair -- Occupation duty in Kentucky -- Down the Mississippi and the siege of Vicksburg -- Occupation in Mississippi and return to Kentucky -- travel to Knoxville on return from sick leave -- Winter camp in Eastern Tennessee -- Hard times and a depleted company -- The end of the War -- Postwar duty in Richmond, Virginia -- Last days in Richmond -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
- Subject(s)
- Ayling, Augustus D.—Diaries
- United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 29th (1861-1865)
- Soldiers—Massachusetts—Diaries
- Massachusetts—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Regimental histories
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Regimental histories
- Massachusetts—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Personal narratives
- United States—History—Civil War, 1861-1865—Personal narratives
- ISBN
- 1572330341 (alk. paper)
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliography and index.
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