All's for the Best: The Civil War Reminiscences and Letters of Daniel W. Sawtelle, Eighth Maine Volunteer Infantry

by Daniel W. Sawtelle and Peter H. Buckingham

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Daniel Withum Sawtelle was a young man working on his family's farm in the north woods of Maine. The Republican son of a Democrat father, he initially took little notice of a war he assumed would be over almost as soon as it started. As the conflict wore on, however, he began to disagree vehemently with his father about the future of the nation. Finally, in February 1862, he enlisted in the Eighth Maine Infantry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572331364
• ISBN13: 9781572331365
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"