| My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field Contributor(s): Coffin, Charles Carleton (Author) |
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ISBN: 1516873874 ISBN-13: 9781516873876 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.12 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.38 lbs) 120 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In my boyhood, my young friends, I loved to sit beside my grandfather and listen to his stories of Bunker Hill and Saratoga, -how he and his comrades stood upon those fields and fought for their country. I could almost see the fight and hear the cannon's roar, the rattle of the musketry, and the shouts of victory. They won their independence, and established the best government the world ever saw. But there are men in this country who hate that government, who have plotted against it, and who have brought about the present Great Rebellion to destroy it. I have witnessed some of the battles which have been fought during this war, although I have not been a soldier, as my grandfather was, and I shall try, in this volume, to picture those scenes, and give correct descriptions of the ground, the marching of the troops, the positions they occupied, and other things, that you may understand how your father, or your brothers, or your friends, fought for the dear old fla |