A Soldier's First-Hand Account...An Eyewitness Civil War Dispatch "The book is an account written a few days after the battle by one who, though only a staff officer, took so prominent a part that he was promoted from a lieutenancy to a colonelcy for his bravery. On the third day of the conflict he happened to be the only mounted man in the field, and, says Gen. F. A. Walker, 'rode between the two lines, then swaying backward and forward under each...