Reminiscences of the Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment

A soldier recounts enlistment, camp life, and four years of campaigning with his Massachusetts regiment, describing marches, drills, guard duty, and combat in many major engagements of the war, including wounds and hospital service. He gives detailed narratives of siege and field battles, experiences under fire, and the regiment's movements between fronts. Extended chapters record life in Confederate prisons, an escape and later recapture, parole, and eventual exchange and return north. Interwoven are personal recollections of comradeship, disciplinary incidents, receptions at home, civic encounters, and impressions of occupied towns and political events such as a presidential election.