Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from War Diary (1862-5) Of Brevet Brigadier General Joseph Stockton: First Lieutenant, Captain, Major and Lieutenant-Colonel, 72d Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers (First Board of Trade Regiment)
Nov. 18. Marching orders at last. We are off for the front. Everybody busy packing up and sending home such things as are not absolutely needed. It seems hard to decide but I bring myself down to what a small valise will hold. Now comes the tug of war.
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