Publisher's Synopsis
Using the soldier's personal letters, A Thousand Days to Live chronicles the Civil War life of Thompson, Connecticut native, Henry Washington Brown. As a naive 19-year-old, Henry joined the 21st Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, and rapidly grew into a hardened combat veteran participating in some of the war's most gruesome battles. Few soldiers in American history have seen more death. Find out if Henry survived...or if he succumbed to the horrors of war.