Semi-History of a Boy Veteran: 1861-1865 (Abridged, Annotated)

By Edwin L. Hobart

With letters and diaries from former comrades-in-arms, Edwin Hobart wrote this engaging history of the regiments in which he served, including the 58th U.S. Colored Infantry. He was indeed a boy soldier when he joined (at 16) in 1861 and by the time he joined the 58th as a lieutenant, he was only twenty years old.At Shiloh, Corinth, the siege of Vicksburg and elsewhere, Hobart was in the thick of the fighting as he became a boy veteran.Included in this expanded edition is information on his post-military life, including his struggle for a pension for disability.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519058888
• ISBN13: 9781519058881
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"