"A mix of regimental orders, brigade orders and generals' orders taken at headquarters in Swansey (Swansea), Mass., Providence and Portsmouth, R.I. covering the time period of the Battle of Rhode Island. Also from stations at Tiverton, R.I., Little Compton, R.I., Camp Freetown (Mass.). Records orders from General Cornell, General Varnum, General Greene, and Major General Marquis de Layfayette. First entries by Jona[than] Handy, majority by Col. John...

"Adventure, bravery, and bloodshedin Gaskells own words. The rare clarity of George Lee Gaskells writings provide a glimpse into the life of a Union soldier who fell in love with the Southand stayed. After an adventurous upbringing in which he learned several languages and traveled as far away as Africa, Gaskell enlisted in the Union Army. His letters to his beloved sister, at home in Connecticut, vividly describe not only the brutality of battles...

"Cartoonist Shannon Wheeler and journalist Steve Duin present a comprehensive, understandable, and readable graphic novel version of the exhaustive Mueller report."--

" . . . Caught up by a romantic sense of patriotism and encouraged to enlist by authority figures who would not risk their lives to do the same, Paul Bäumer and his classmates join the fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in World War I. He is soon disenchanted by the constant bombardments and ruthless struggle to survive. Through years in battle, Paul and those he serves with become men defined by the violence around them, desperate to...