Both official and unofficial reports failed to illuminate the true bloodshed of the conflict: one of every three engaged Confederates was killed or wounded
Little did they suspect that the South's large mosquito population operated as a sort of mercenary force
The national parks spring from an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most precious portions of the land should be preserved
As tensions erupted into conflict in 1861
and determined people who made the Great Dismal Swamp their free home and sanctuary and who played an outsized role in undermining slavery through the Civil War
From Antietam to Appomattox with Upton's Regulars: A Civil War Memoir from the 121st New York Regiment (Dewitt Clinton Beckwith - UA) wilderness Both official and unofficial reportsby Dewitt Clinton Beckwith (Author), Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr. Thirty years after the Civil War, the 121st New York Volunteers (Upton's Regulars) finally published a history of their regiment. Its stated author was a man who had not served directly with the 121st but had based the book on a memoir written by a survivor who had enlisted at age 15. That boy, Dewitt Clinton Beckwith, published his memoir thirty years after the war in an obscure upstate
