Reports on a soldier's life in the Army of the Confederacy, by Carlton McCarthy, later Mayor of Richmond.

Carlton McCarthy was the mayor of Richmond from 1904 to 1908. He wrote a book about his four years of Civil War experience called Detailed Minutiae of Soldier L

This Civil War classic of soldiering in the ranks debunks all the romantic notions of war. Like his Northern counterpart, the Confederate soldier fought against

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing the

Published in 1899, these are the reminiscences of Carlton McCarthy during his time serving as a Confederate private in the Richmond Howitzers in the Army of Nor