A Citizen-Soldier's Civil War: The Letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris Annotated edition

When "citizen-soldier" Alvin Coe Voris first wrote to his wife in 1861, he embarked on a correspondence that spanned the duration of the Civil War. The 428 letters collected in this volume form a Civil War chronicle and an insight into the ideals of a man called by conscience to the battlefield.