Diary of a Yankee Engineer : : The Civil War Diary of John Henry Westervelt / / Anita Palladino.
On September 8, 1962, John H. Westervelt enlisted as a private into the 1st New York Volunteer Engineer Corps. That same year, he shipped out of New York on the "Star of the South" to South Carolina to fight for the North in the Civil War. The following April, he began a journal for his 13...
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