The Diary of a Dead Man 1862-1864

430 pp. Black-and-white photographs follow text. "These, the unedited diary and letters of a Union private, provide a compassionate insight into the life of a farm boy from Western New York State who became caught up in a social fever of war. Ira Pettit's life began near the shores of Lake Ontario and ended in the squalor of Andersonville Prison in Georgia. The journey to his 'moment of truth' took him from his farm home at Wilson, New York, through the mountains of New England, along the Atlantic seaboard, through his nation's capital, into and out of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and finally into Georgia."