The Story of the Thirty-Third N.Y.S. Vols: or Two Years Campaigning in Virginia and Maryland [33rd Volunteers]

iv, 349, 76 pp. The author, David W. Judd was a journalist with the New York Times. He was with the 33rd New York Volunteer Infantry during its two years in the Army of the Potomac from 1861 to 1863. Williamsburg, the Seven Days' Battles, Antietam, and at the first and second battles of Fredericksburg are covered. The author states that he does not propose to review the causes, rise, and progress of the American Civil War, but aims at giving a narrative of one of the many Regiments which the Empire State has sent into the field, together with a description of the various campaigns in which it participated. Judd writes as a contemporary news reporter, whose style takes the reader to the battlefield scene of action. It is not a droll sequence of military operational strategy. It is fresh reporting at its finest, written before the end of the war. This perspective adds another dimension to getting close to that time, rather than reading a post-war account.