Rebel Private Front and Rear

A Confederate soldier shares a candid and harrowing account of his varied experiences on the frontlines in this Civil War memoir. William Fletcher joined the Confederate Army in 1861, serving with the Army of North Virginia’s Texas Brigade. Overtaken with a “bad case of cowardly terror” at Gettysburg, he later sustained wounds at Chickamauga. Unable to continue as an infantryman, he was transferred to Company E, Eighth Texas Rangers, where he served with Terry’s Rangers until the end of the war.