Short Biography: Dr. John Wesley Brinsfield is the Chaplain Corps historian at the Army Chaplain School, Ft. Jackson, South Carolina. He has degrees from Vanderbilt, Emory, Yale, and Drew universities and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Mansfield College, Oxford. He is the author or co-author of seven books and more than twenty journal and newspaper articles. 

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Purchase The Volunteer’s Camp and Field Book Edited and compiled bys: Dr. John Wesley Brinsfield, William B. Sargeant Product Code: P397 ISBN: 9780881461695 Other ISBN: 0881461695 Publisher: Mercer University Press Binding Information: Paperback  Availability: In stock. Price: $20.00 When the Civil War began in 1861, thousands of volunteers rallied to the colors to defend their families, their homes, and the Union—or the Confederacy—as they chose. Comparatively few of these patriotic young men were trained veterans of military campaigns or graduates of a military academy. Before hundreds of regiments marched off to war, John Penn Curry, a veteran of Indian campaigns in the West and a former US Navy officer, wrote a practical handbook for soldiers to help them survive the hardships of life in the field. Qty:

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