The Citizen-Soldier / or, Memoirs of a Volunteer

The narrative presents the author's wartime journal as a volunteer soldier, tracing enlistment, monthly campaigns, camp routines, reconnaissance, skirmishes, and artillery actions across varied locales. It mixes tactical reporting of picket duty and scouting with personal observations of comrades, officers, and local civilians, and records episodes of capture, imprisonment, and escape. Reflective introductory remarks and explanatory notes frame the entries, and an appended officer's account adds perspective. The tone shifts between practical military detail and domestic remembrance, producing a sequential portrait of daily soldiering, logistical challenges, and the emotional and social dimensions of service.