| Author: | Michael Mendoza | ISBN: | 9781463468156 |
| Publisher: | AuthorHouse | Publication: | October 31, 2011 |
| Imprint: | AuthorHouse | Language: | English |
| Author: | Michael Mendoza |
| ISBN: | 9781463468156 |
| Publisher: | AuthorHouse |
| Publication: | October 31, 2011 |
| Imprint: | AuthorHouse |
| Language: | English |
The Glorious Reality of War is not a biography. Rather, it is a fictionalized account of the experiences of Civil War veteran Charles Wesley Rickard based upon his own recollection recorded in a seventeen page letter to his grown daughter in 1925. He was fifteen when he joined as a fifer because: "They said I was too young for a private and would only muster me in as a fifer as the Col.'s son W.W. Byam had already enlisted as a drummer. (I had never seen a fife) but I could use a rifle, and was bound to go as something."
The Glorious Reality of War is not a biography. Rather, it is a fictionalized account of the experiences of Civil War veteran Charles Wesley Rickard based upon his own recollection recorded in a seventeen page letter to his grown daughter in 1925. He was fifteen when he joined as a fifer because: "They said I was too young for a private and would only muster me in as a fifer as the Col.'s son W.W. Byam had already enlisted as a drummer. (I had never seen a fife) but I could use a rifle, and was bound to go as something."
