Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army - The Civil War Letters of Samuel Fiske

Mr. Dunn Browne's Experiences in the Army, edited by noted Civil War writer Stephen Sears, provides a candid, often witty, behind-the-scenes look at the Civil War. A collection of battlefront letters composed by Browne (pseudonym of Captain Samuel Wheelock Fiske of the 14th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry), this book is unique in the literature of the Civil War. Fiske was at once a fighting infantryman and an experienced newspaper correspondent, and no one in this war, on either side, wrote better accounts of a soldier's experiences in battle and in camp. From Antietam to the Wilderness, readers of the Springfield Republican had Dunn Browne to explain to them just how it was in the Army of the Potomac. In addition, he was an investigative reporter (before that term was invented) who delved into the follies of the army bureaucracy, the sophistries of the Copperheads, and the abuses of conscription. He delved, too, into the complexities of why men fight.

About the author

Stephen Sears is the author of many acclaimed Civil War histories. A former editor at American Heritage, he lives in Connecticut.

Summary

This volume collects together battlefront letters composed by Dunn Browne (the pseudonym of Captain Samuel Wheelock Fiske of the 14th Connecticut regiment) during the American Civil War. Fiske was both a fighting infantryman and an experienced newspaper correspondent.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel W. Fiske, Stephen Sears, Stephen W. Sears
• Assisted by: Stephen W. Sears (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780823218332
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-1833-2
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 560 g
• Series: The North's Civil War; North's Civil War (Hardcover); North's Civil War S.; The North's Civil War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies