This Will Make a Man of Me: The Life and Letters of a Teenage Officer in the Civil War

By James M. Scythes

Book Overview

This book presents a firsthand account of the experiences of seventeen-year-old Second Lieutenant Thomas James Howell during Major General George McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. Howell's story offers the reader a unique perspective of a young man coming of age in the Union army during the Civil War.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611462207
• ISBN13: 9781611462203
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"