Cush: A Civil War Memoir

This is a war memoir that moves humans to the front lines, rather than battles and strategies. It is a memoir written thirty years after the fact with all the humor, irony, and pathos that one would expect such a removal to bring. Being aware that three decades would also bring lapses of memory, Sprott enlisted the aid of fellow veterans, who regularly sent emendations to his weekly writings in a local newspaper. The collation and publication of this journal one hundred years later is not only a boon to American Civil War buffs, it is a boon to all Americans as an aid to understanding our own past.