Well Satisfied with My Position: The Civil War Journal of Spencer Bonsall

by Spencer Bonsall

Well Satisfied with My Position offers a first-person account of army life during the Civil War's Peninsula Campaign and Battle of Fredericksburg. Spencer Bonsall, who joined the 81st Pennsylvania Infantry as a hospital steward, kept a journal from March 1862 until March 1863, when he abruptly ceased writing. Editors Michael A. Flannery and Katherine H. Oomens place his experiences in the context of the field of Civil War medicine and continue...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809327708
• ISBN13: 9780809327706
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"