Federals On The Frontier, The Diary Of Benjamin F. Mcintyre 1862-1864 (19Th Iowa Regimental History) Mcintyre, Benjamin F. (Edited By Nannie M. Tilley)

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, xv, 429 pgs, index.20 photo and other illustrations, 3 maps. Blue cloth with gilt titled spine. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Near fine, minor shelf soiling. Interior is clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Fine detailed of record of Benjamin McIntyre of the 19th Iowa Infantry. Fought throughout the Western Theater, mostly in Arkansas, along the lower Mississippi, and into Brownsville, Texas. REFERENCES: NEVINS I pg 126: "The day-by-day experiences in the Trans-Mississippi by a highly observant soldier in the 19th Iowa; good for descriptions of life and scenes in Texas." MULLINS/REED #96: "McIntyre, who served in the Nineteenth Iowa Infantry in the Trans-Mississippt theater, was first a 'noncom' and later a commissioned officer. His recollections are a revealing description of the day-by-day activities of soldier life. Jay Monaghan said that the book is 'unusually well-edited, the author is a careful scholar who has thoroughly mastered the primary sources.'"