A Corporal's Story by Alan D. Gaff, Donald H. Gaff - 9780806196923

University of Oklahoma Press

A Corporal's StoryCivil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts\nAuthor(s): Alan D. Gaff, Donald H. Gaff\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806196923, 978-0806196923\nSynopsis\nWhen George Kimball [tel] joined the Twelfth Massachusetts in 1861, hed been in the newspaper trade for five years. When he mustered out three years later, having been wounded at Fredericksburg and again at Gettysburg (mortally, it was mistakenly assumed at the time), he returned to newspaper life. There he remained, working for the Boston Journal for the next four decades. A natural storyteller, Kimball wrote often about his military service, always with a newspapermans eye for detail and respect for the facts, relating only what hed witnessed firsthand and recalled with remarkable clarity. Collected in A Corporals Story, Kimballs writings form a unique narrative of one mans experience in the Civil War, viewed .