Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade ... Containing the daily experiences of four year’s service in the ranks from a diary kept at the time. A truthful record of battles and skirmishes, advance, retreat and maneuvers of the army ... replete with thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes.

“This embellished memoir [is] as witty as it is informative…”

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First edition. Blunt, insightful, and witty, Casler crafted one of the definitive sources on the South’s most renowned brigade —“a superb tale of a common Confederate soldier’s wartime service.” (Eciher)

Casler served as a private in Company A of the 33rd Virginia, a component in the elite Stonewall Brigade. “His amusing and realistic narrative is an antidote for the excessive idealism of much that has been written about the Army of Northern Virginia. There can be no true portrayal of the private soldier of that Army unless Casler is consulted.” —D.S. Freeman.

Coulter notes: “Casler’s contribution is a first-rate human-interest story of a Confederate soldier’s experiences in the war. He wrote without a trace of bitterness, and designed his book for both young and mature readers. It is almost entirely concerned with life in the army and only incidentally do the face of the country and the character of the civilians enter the picture. Its locale is the eastern theater of war. Casler was in Sedalia, Missouri when the secession movement began, but being a Virginian he hastened to his old home in the northwestern part of the state to join a local regiment which was to become apart of Stonewall Jackson’s Brigade. He operated with this unit until January, 1865, when he joined the Eleventh Virginia Cavalry. The next month he was taken prisoner and sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore harbor. He participated, up to the time of his capture, in most of the principal engagements in Virginia, as well as those of Sharpsburg and Gettysburg.”

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