1. CITIZEN SOLDIERS.
- Author
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ACKEN, J. GREGORY and D. B. S.
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MILITARY personnel , *AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865 , *CAVALRY - Abstract
The article describes how several citizen soldiers from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, namely, Captain Francis Adams Donaldson, Captain Louis R. Fortescue and 2nd Lieutenant William Brooke Rawle, experienced the Civil War in different ways. Topics covered why Donaldson and Fortescue joined the army in mid-1861, how Rawle experienced first cavalry fight and the men's opinions of their fellow officers. It also describes the different plights of Donaldson, Fortescue and Rawle.
- Published
- 2021