Glorious Reality of War
Author | : Michael Mendoza |
Publisher | : Author House |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011-10-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781463468156 |
ISBN-13 | : 1463468156 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Download or read book Glorious Reality of War written by Michael Mendoza and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glorious Reality of War is not a biography. Rather, it is a fictionalized account of the experiences of Civil War veteran Charles Wesley Rickard based upon his own recollection recorded in a seventeen page letter to his grown daughter in 1925. He was fifteen when he joined as a fifer because: "They said I was too young for a private and would only muster me in as a fifer as the Col.'s son W.W. Byam had already enlisted as a drummer. (I had never seen a fife) but I could use a rifle, and was bound to go as something."