Download or read book The Citizen-Soldier written by John Beatty and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writer's record begins with the day on which his regiment entered Virginia, June 22, 1861, and ends on January 1, 1864. He does not undertake to present a history of the organizations with which he was connected, nor does he attempt to describe the operations of armies. His record consists merely of matters which came under his own observation, and of camp gossip, rumors, trifling incidents, idle speculations, and the numberless items, small and great, which, in one way and another, enter into and affect the life of a soldier.