The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, ... by Leander Stillwell

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Mencken observed admiringly in a review, 'in plain, straightforward American, naked and unashamed, without any of the customary strutting and bawling.' Small for his age and given to taking solitary walks in the woods beyond the picket lines, Stillwell was nevertheless an enthusiastic and obedient soldier. In The Story of a Common Soldier Stillwell tells of his Army experiences, as critic H. He also took part in skirmishes in Tennessee and Arkansas, as well as the Siege of Vicksburg.

His first-and biggest-battle, Shiloh, was the one he remembered most vividly. For three and a half years he served in the Western theater of operations as a noncommissioned officer before being mustered out as a lieutenant in September 1865. In January 1862, only a few months past his 18th birthday, and only after he and his father had sowed the wheat, gathered the corn and cut the winter firewood, Stillwell left his family's log cabin in the Jersey County backwoods of western Illinois and enlisted in Company D of the 61st Illinois Infantry Regiment. Leander Stillwell was typical of thousands of Northern boys who answered President Lincoln's call for volunteers.

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, ... by Leander Stillwell