The Musick of the Mocking Birds, the Roar of the Cannon: The Civil War Diary and Letters of William Winters

by William Winters and William Winter

William Winters was unlike most of the young soldiers who answered the Union's appeal for men in 1861 and 1862. He was different from many of his comrades in age and point of view, and his war service was also out of the ordinary.

The last great surge of popular voluntary enlistment swept up Winters, a thirty-two-year-old saddle and harness maker and father of three from Indiana. Like so many others in the Civil War, Winters was a prolific correspondent,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803247737
• ISBN13: 9780803247734
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"