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A volunteer in the regulars : the Civil War journal and memoir of Gilbert Thompson, US Engineer Battalion /

At the outbreak of the war, Gilbert Thompson joined the regular army and was assigned to the engineer battalion. He began writing a journal of his service. After the war, Thompson took his three wartime journals and interleaved them into a single volume, adding some of his postwar reflections along...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Gilbert, 1839-1909
Other Authors: Smith, Mark A., 1972- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2020]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Voices of the Civil War series.
Subjects:
Thompson, Gilbert, > 1839-1909 > Diaries.
United States. > Army of the Potomac. > Engineer Battalion.
United States. > Army > Officers > Diaries.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Engineering and construction.
Soldiers > Massachusetts > Diaries.
Military engineers > Massachusetts > Diaries.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.
Massachusetts > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives.

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