Yankee In Gray: The Civil War Memoirs Of Henry E. Handerson

Henry E. Handerson, a tutor from the Western Reserve of Ohio, fifteen miles east of Cleveland, enlisted in the Confederate army on June 17, 1861…Handerson was not an ordinary soldier. His memoir is the account of a Northerner—who after only two years of residency in antebellum Louisiana decided to cast his lot with the Confederacy.

…Already a member of a local home guard company, the twenty-four-y...