D Augustus Dickert

History of Kershaw's Brigade D Augustus Dickert

"But Kershaw's Brigade ... is much more than a recounting of military movements and the ordeals of battles. It is at once a panorama of the agonies and the ecstacies of cold-steel war. Few such narratives are so replete with quiet, meditative asides, bold delineations of daily life in camp and on the march, descriptions of places and peoples, and-by no means least-the raucous, all relieving humor of the common soldier who resolutely makes merry to-day because to-morrow he may die."