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Tickner & Fields NY 1993. Hard cover dust wrapper 371pp. Spine sunned, else very good. This journal offers and eyewitness account of the Civil War by a Union Soldier who fought from Bull Run to Knoxville. Haydon served through some of the most important engagements of the period. He began as a third sergeant and ended as a lieutenant colonel. In the East he witnessed the rush to the colors, the first Bull Run, the building of the Army of the Potomac, the Peninsula campaign and the fighting at second Bull Run and Fredericksburg. Early in 1863 his regiment was transferred to the western theatre, where it served in Kentucky and under Grant at Vicksburg. Haydon was severely wounded in Mississipi. During the winter of 63-64 he was in Tennessee and engaged in the campaigning around Knoxville. In March 1864 he contracted pneumonia and died.