The Class of 1861: Custer, Ames and Their Classmates After West Point - Hardcover

"Authors of Civil War books all too often ignore a large proportion of the vast original sources that bear on their subject. Ralph Kirshner, however, has exhaustively mined a rich archival lode on the class of '61. The result is a first-rate book."--Robert K. Krick, author of "Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain" and "Lee's Colonels" Authors of Civil War books all too often ignore a large proportion of the vast original sources that bear on their subject. Ralph Kirshner, however, has exhaustively mined a rich archival lode on the class of 61. The result is a first-rate book. Robert K. Krick, author of "Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain" and "Lee s Colonels"" "Authors of Civil War books all too often ignore a large proportion of the vast original sources that bear on their subject. Ralph Kirshner, however, has exhaustively mined a rich archival lode on the class of '61. The result is a first-rate book."--Robert K. Krick, author of "Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain" and "Lee's Colonels"

This text provides a forum for the West Point class of 1861 to write its own autobiography. Through letters, journals and published accounts, George Armstrong Custer, Adelbert Ames and their classmates tell in their own words of their Civil War battles and of their varied careers after the war.