"This book presents the diaries, ledger, and letters of Edmund Trent Eggleston, one of a very few primary sources from a Civil War artillerist in the West. As a member of this regiment, Eggleston fought at Champion Hill and the 1864 campaigns in Georgia and Tennessee. Probably the most significant contribution here is related to the Georgia and Tennessee campaigns: these primary sources provide some of the only information we have about this important unit during that period"--